FW26 speaks about time and memory, about a space where the past does not disappear, but remains, transforms and returns in a new form.

“I realized that when I create a collection, I have all these fragments of things that I like, and that I’m not even conscious that I like. And I always bring them into the collections on top of the brand’s foundation.

I imagine a woman who has travelled through time. Almost like a vampire from Interview with the Vampire, or like the film Orlando, with Tilda Swinton.

The character in this collection is a woman who has been in hibernation for a while, and when she woke up, she woke up in a completely new world. But she still carried those nostalgic elements that she had collected over the centuries.

That’s somehow how I built the collection, because it has so many historical elements, but they all come together in a very contemporary mash-up. In the end, it is the image of a woman who has just woken up from hibernation and is trying to understand the world she has arrived in, without leaving behind what came before.”

- Andreea Bădală, designer and founder of MURMUR