To kick off Berlin Fashion Week SS26, Clara Colette Miramon shut down Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße to welcome an eager audience for “care”.
Founded in 2021, the Berlin-based brand stays dedicated to constructing stories through fashion. Clara Colette Miramon’s artful designs consistently find the balance between wearable and experimental, a rule that remained unbroken this season with “care”.
Clara Colette Miramon pulls inspiration from childhood memories, historical references, coming-of-age stories, and subcultures. These intentional and personal references bubble up in both the designs and the shows. With “care”, the brand refined its ruching and colors from the previous summer collection to bring attention elsewhere.
“care” set focus on caregivers, and the women who are pushed into those roles.
The runway for “care” shut down traffic on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße to focus attention on the caregivers wandering the makeshift runway. With an ambulance parked at one end, three hospital beds, and three exercise machines lining the street, memories of emergencies, care, and recovery– and the people who help us through it– washed over the crowd.
Models teetered down the steps of the ambulance one by one, dressed in restricted silhouettes, cinched corsetry, towering heels, immaculate nurse uniforms, and elevated sportswear.
Three models in what looked to be spotless, wartime nurse uniforms mended to sickly models lying on the hospital beds. Later in the show, three more models carefully mounted the exercise machines before walking the length of the runway. These acts, styling, makeup, and designs, urged the audience to consider the care we receive and from whom it comes.
Stitch-like lacing suggested scars left in the act of mending. The models’ tired red eyes suggested those scars affect both the mended and the mender in their own right.
Care work– mending, cleaning, nursing– takes a physical and psychological toll on the women we expect to perform it. Miramon questions this expectation through intentional layering and exposure, structure and flexibility, and the molds society squeezes the feminine brain and body into.
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