Casablanca Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 at Paris Fashion Week

Music as a universal language – the dance floor as an egalitarian arena of freedom. Casablanca SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 Casablanca collection draws inspiration the roots, rhythm and liberation of House Music – its cultural universe – reflecting a deep, long-standing and intensely personal passion of Founder and Creative Director Charaf Tajer.

Echoing this, the collection is an homage to House, to its identity, its ideologies, its essence. House was born in Chicago counterculture in the early 1980s, pulsing from underground clubs and ground-breaking DJs and defined by a spirit of inclusivity and acceptance, a space where both individuality and community thrived. The work of a handful of pioneering creatives expanded around the world and changed the way the night sounds, forever.

The energy and soul of House – its past, present and future – becomes the driving force behind the Casablanca SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 collection. Slipstreaming between mediums, audio translates to the visual with clothes shaped by both the music itself, and the scene that surrounds it. Sampling different eras, genres and styles, pieces are mixed and remixed together like a DJ combines tracks. Sports with suiting, casual with formal – finding non-conformist harmonies in the juxtapositions of themes and variations.

The personalities that light up dancefloors here appear as a diverse cast of unmistakable Casablanca characters, archetypes reimagined. The street is elevated – reimagined, refined and filtered through a Casablanca lens, their tones and melodies synthesized with the persona of the brand. Throughout, there are flashes of acid neon, as if glimpsed in strobing lights, punchy print like vinyl covers, flyers or club handouts. The spirit of the Balearic island of Ibiza, a hedonistic escape, appears both literally, as elegiac vista prints, and abstractly infuses the collection’s body-consciousness, sensuality and hot color, like stepping out into sunshine the morning after the night before.

In the nightclub, different walks of lives constantly meet – reflected by the collection shifting in mood and tempo, the crossing of paths of different personas on the runway. Dancing crowds inspire the first character, whose clothes epitomize the crossfade between sports and club wear, synching between clothes geared for movement. Eased fits contrast with body-consciousness, both between individual looks and within the looks themselves.

Here, Casablanca’s signature gradients are re-engineered to map sound-waves and vibrations through and on the body – alongside a collaboration with German artist Martin Naumann, who reimagines the gradient with a glassine finish, like sweat-slicked nightclub walls. A riot of pattern draws inspiration from even the ambience of clubs – rave flyers combine in a medley of collage, graphics and typographies, playful imagery and mood-elevating Smiley-Face logos, translated to intricate jacquards and print. These dress the Social Concierge, the DJ figure within Casablanca clubland. Cyber nods, echoing the ceaseless modernism of house music and the futurism of its accompanying imagery, clash with slick textures of faux-ostrich and mock-croc, while ombré and digital, video-game inspired imagery imagine the future.

Alongside, the Bourgeoise Raver Girl emblematizes the shifting between modes and lives you find on the dance floor – cultures collide, high and low mix, sportswear with precious treatments of feathers and crystal or sequin embroideries on chiffons, neon flashes and clinging knits, skirts cut high. Her high-heeled mules come with tech straps and detailing, sweet to-the-body evening bags in co-ordinated leather and tech-mesh. Our final archetype is the Nightclub Proprietor, in oversized tailoring and unbuttoned shirts, trousers low-riding, combining materials and prints with an undone nonchalance. A cyber-animalier is introduced here, like genetically modified revamp of the 70s stalwart. Indeed, Casablanca’s greatest hits are, this season, remixed – graphics reimagined with new identity – the orchid is glitched, as if seen through a CRT screen, nature made supernatural; the monogram and seasonal panoramas reimagined as vibrant prints. The iconic Casablanca sneakers – the Stade and the Del Mar – both make appearances, the Del Mar an homage to skateboarding in both volume and colorways, the Stade a low profile, running-inspired style with flowing overlays influenced by motion. Here, both are mixed with casual and formal alike in a wardrobe of fluid transitions, remixing notions of dress.

Dance almost is a religion – the show is staged within the American Cathedral in Paris, to a live soundtrack exceptionally created by Grammy Award-winning DJ, record producer and remixer Louie Vega and a choir of 18 performers. Here, another diverse group – models, audience – come together in a pure celebration of creative self-expression. A house of love.

All images Casablanca SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 by the brand. CREDITS TO: Thank you to our Casablanca© team for making this show possible, Founder & Creative Director Charaf Tajer, Art Director Steve Grimes, Production by La Mode En Images, Show styled by Helena Tejedor, Casting by Simone Schofer, Makeup by Masaé ITO, Hair by Karim Belghiran, Nails Alex Feller, PR KCD.