Masquerade: Saul Nash Reimagines Power, Performance, and Identity for Autumn/Winter 2026
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For Autumn/Winter 2026, Saul Nash presents Masquerade, a collection that positions clothing as both armor and apparition—an instrument through which identity can be reshaped, concealed, and ultimately empowered. Rooted in performance and transformation, the season marks a refined evolution of Nash’s design language, where movement, tailoring, and self-expression converge.
The concept of masquerade first emerged for Nash during Notting Hill Carnival, where vibrant costumes trace their lineage to mimicry ceremonies—rituals of embodiment and reinvention. From there, the designer expanded his research to Venetian masquerade traditions, where masks served a dual purpose: liberation through transformation and protection through anonymity. These cultural references form the foundation of a collection that interrogates what it means to dress for power in contemporary London life.
Through this lens, Nash proposes a new vision of power dressing—one that exists in the tension between formal tailoring and everyday ease. Clothes become vessels for multiplicity, allowing the wearer to navigate different versions of self without compromise. “I wanted to create a collection that empowers the wearer,” Nash explains. “These are clothes that can act as a form of masquerade in your own life; a medium to embody who you want to be.”
The collection opens with the tracksuit, a cornerstone of the brand and Nash’s personal uniform since childhood. Here, a technical tracksuit is printed with the silhouette of a suit—an intentional pastiche of formality. The gesture reflects Nash’s own experiences of feeling underdressed in sportswear-centric wardrobes, reframing the tracksuit as both camouflage and authenticity. It is a way to “fit in,” while remaining rooted in one’s truth.
Throughout Masquerade, codes from 1980s British and Italian power tailoring are dismantled and reassembled. Suit jackets arrive with built-in hoods and detachable sleeves, while shirts—crafted from stretch cotton—are mapped with precise horizontal and vertical lines inspired by Ben Magid Rabinovitch’s Tamaris in Dirge (1931). These garments translate Nash’s kinetic philosophy from performance wear into a sharper, more sartorial realm.
Formalwear continues to expand through a pinstriped all-in-one jumpsuit, borrowing its proportions from Wall Street suiting. Cut wide and deliberately warped, the merino stretch wool construction animates the body in motion, echoing the fluid spectacle of masquerade costumes. This play with scale and distortion extends into outerwear, the most versatile offering from the brand to date. Military-inspired drill jackets feature transformable collars worn three ways, cropped trench coats employ Nash’s kinetic cutting technique, and padded jackets with elongated ribbed knit sleeves and exaggerated hemlines achieve lightness through PRIMALOFT® Gold insulation.
The palette—anchored in greens, navies, and earthy browns—supports a rich dialogue of texture. Silky utility trousers in Viscose LENZING™ are paired with crinkled recycled nylon zip-ups, while tactile contrasts emerge in mohair blazers and nipple-exposing cardigans knitted from alpaca and merino wool. Each material choice reinforces the collection’s sensory and emotional depth.
Masquerade, at its core, is about the masks worn daily. This theme materializes in compression tops printed with hazy body motifs and finished with funnel necks that, when pulled up, suggest the silhouette of another person entirely. A similar illusion appears in an overdyed raw denim twinset, lasered with a chiselled physique inspired by ancient male statuary—classical ideals refracted through contemporary fabric manipulation.
The season is grounded by Saul Nash’s debut footwear design, the Julien Boot. A high-top sports shoe with a mesh upper, leather base, velcro fastening, and segmented gum sole, it is engineered for flexibility and movement—an extension of the brand’s commitment to performance-led design.
Alongside Masquerade, Nash previews select looks from SLNSH Spring 2026, the fourth chapter in his ongoing collaboration with lululemon. Spanning men’s and women’s styles, the collection draws inspiration from nature’s return, blending Nash’s transformative design ethos with lululemon’s technical innovation. Highlights include a reimagined Define Transformable Jacket, organic cotton barrel trousers, elevated crossbody bags, and a Dual-Length seam-taped waterproof jacket. SLNSH Spring 2026 will launch globally on April 14, 2026, across lululemon.com and stores in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and China.
With Masquerade, Saul Nash invites the wearer to step into transformation—to dress not just for the world as it is, but for who they choose to become.
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For Autumn/Winter 2026, Saul Nash’s Masquerade explores clothing as a transformative mask, merging tailoring and sportswear to empower fluid identity, movement, and self-expression through performance-led design.