Marimekko Spring/Summer 2026 at Copenhagen Fashion Week

Marimekko Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 at Copenhagen Fashion Week explores playful proportions and a balance of compositions in a performative expression of pattern.

For Spring/Summer 2026, Marimekko explores the Art of pattern from a multifaceted point of view. Inspired by the craftsmanship in the art of printmaking, the runway show presents a performative expression of pattern set in a former industrial site in the harbor of Copenhagen. The contradicting backdrop highlights the energetic summer collection featuring playful proportions, balanced compositions, and Marimekko’s signature use of bold prints and color. The show depicts overlapping lines forming ever-changing, human-made patterns with an industrial soundscape recorded with real sounds from Marimekko’s textile printing factory in Helsinki, mixed by Finnish musician and artist YSI.

Marimekko SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 collection creates a play between new and familiar florals with dynamic stripes in a poetic blend of femininity and pragmatism. The collection builds an energetic dialogue between pinks, greens and summer blues, ranging from peony and cherry blossom to hydrangea and spirulina with heated accent colors of pistachio, peach and zesty lemon finalizing the palette. Emphasizing the mood for SS26, Marimekko pairs each look with contrasting adidas Tokyo shoes.

“For Spring/Summer 2026, we re-formulate some of Marimekko’s most perennial styles and silhouettes and transform known ideas into something entirely new. This idea is seen, for instance, in a new version of the iconic Marimekko Marimini dress silhouette from the 1960s as the dress is cut in half, becoming a playful summer co-ord set. Similar thinking also applies to the use of patterns this season; for example, by using color to turn a floral print into a field of lemons. The collection plays with variations, where the mini opposes the maxi, layered lightness meets with a touch of utility and the relationship between florals and stripes is at the center of it all”, says Rebekka Bay, Creative Director at Marimekko.

As part of the Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Marimekko pays homage to the seven decades of its longest standing product that has been in continuous production since 1956: the Jokapoika shirt designed by Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi. Renowned for its genderless fit, distinct silver buttons and acting as the canvas for the bold, freely hand-painted Piccolo stripe, the Jokapoika shirt has become a design icon. To commemorate its 70th anniversary, Marimekko brings back the original sturdy material quality of the shirt but also stretches, repeats and reinterprets the classic shirt in new contemporary alterations. This includes a playful crop shirt, a large-scale print proportion, multicolor versions, and a selection of utilitarian dresses and playful accessories. The Piccolo stripe exemplifies the carefree spirit and high artistic integrity behind Marimekko’s craft where the overlap of brushstrokes results in the birth of a third color – a design feature that is ever-evident in Marimekko’s art of printmaking.