HENRI Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 during Milan Fashion Week
HENRI SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026, the brand’s second collection, the idea was to lay out the fundamentals of what it stands for. Starting from silhouettes evoking archetypes of femininity: the hourglass jacket, the bubble cape, the A-line coat, the strapless evening dress. Fabrics create a vocabulary distilled from 1950s fashion: unexpected jacquards, astrakhan, tone-on-tone 18th-century motifs, high-shine satin, houndstooth, shantung. The collection approaches clothing in an almost agnostic way, conceived less as a mood than as a wardrobe—an encyclopaedia of 1950s couture.
About the brand, In an era where fashion often sacrifices quality, craftsmanship, and technical daring in favor of convenience and speed, isn’t designing garments in the style of the 1930s to 1960s a defiant act? That’s the premise behind Henri, a brand that proudly claims to create outdated fashion—seeking the unexpected in a place we already know. Drawing inspiration from the past, the brand explores icons of femininity as characters to embody, subvert, and reinvent. These silhouettes coexist in a wardrobe conceived as a stage of appearances—for women who refuse to play just one role, but know how to inhabit a thousand.
About the designer, Henri was founded in 2024 by Henri Maheu, after nearly a decade working as a pattern maker for prestigious houses including Jacquemus, Alaïa, and Louis Vuitton. Now part of the IFM business incubator, he launches his own label to give life to his passion for fashion history and the heritage of haute couture—building on the technical mastery he has developed throughout his career.
All images HENRI SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 by the brand. PR Agency Maximilian Linz.