SOBREMESA BY SONIA CARRASCO SS27: SIT DOWN, STAY LONGER

For Spring/Summer 2026, Sonia Carrasco presents Sobremesa, a collection that takes its starting point from the Spanish ritual of staying at the table long after a meal has ended. A moment that refuses to move at the same speed as everything else. In a fashion system that runs on constant output, seasonal overproduction, and the pressure to keep generating images, pause stops being a theme and becomes a kind of resistance the moment you name it.

Carrasco has always worked from a place of construction. There is a clear insistence on process, on how garments are made but nothing feels accidental, which is precisely the point.

The language continues through silhouettes that sit somewhere between tailored and undone. Earthy colours, muted greys, softened textures that suggest heat, dust, and stillness.Spain functions here less as a subject and more as a reference system. It’s broken down into material cues — colour, texture, heat — and rebuilt as atmosphere, removing any need for literal representation.

But the SS26 show doesn’t quite land with the force it sets up. The idea feels stronger than its translation into garments. The silhouettes stay controlled to the point of predictability, tailoring is refined but rarely disrupted.There is something missing in this Sobremesa. The punch. Maybe the agua ardiente. Maybe a sweet dessert. We've seen quiet luxury before, and we're seeing it over and over again. It makes people look good, and Sonia knows how to make people look good. But she could make people look great.

Still, the collection holds together. It translates sobremesa into fabric, colour, and a slowed-down relationship to time. Nothing pushes forward. Nothing rushes to end. It just sits in that in-between state, like a table left uncleared, between spring and summer.

Words by @cccmolina