At New York Fashion Week, some designers send out pretty clothes. TTSWTRS? They staged a full-blown spiritual awakening. For its second couture outing, the Ukrainian brand unveiled a Spring/Summer 2026 collection called “Art Is My Religion” — and the result was part runway, part performance art, part techno-dreamscape.
Models moved against an immersive projection that split the show into three “chapters”: the earthly, the mutated, and the divine. In other words, fragility → transformation → god mode. It was less about clothes as objects and more about fashion as ritual, asking what happens when the human body is reimagined as both canvas and deity.
Second-Skin, But Make It Spiritual
TTSWTRS has always been known for its second-skin bodysuits, and SS26 pushed that signature to surreal new places. Tattoos were sketched directly onto fabric, ostrich feathers stood in for body hair, and silhouettes exaggerated the body in ways that felt both unsettling and magnetic — think hips and shoulders stretched beyond proportion.
Other standouts veered into straight-up provocation: oversized tees sprouting wigs from the sleeves, tailoring smeared with faux sweat, and a look that toed the line between censored and exposed — one breast draped, the other covered with nothing but a metallic nipple plate.
It wasn’t about shock for shock’s sake, though. The pieces were designed to question what we hide, what we flaunt, and what it means to treat the body as art in itself.
Why It Matters
Runway theatrics aren’t new, but TTSWTRS is doing something sharper: using fashion’s most basic tool — the body — as both subject and medium. In a season obsessed with minimal “clean girl” beauty and quiet luxury, their refusal to play subtle feels like a necessary jolt.
The collection reminds us that fashion doesn’t just dress us; it redefines us. Sometimes fragile, sometimes mutated, sometimes divine.
With SS26, TTSWTRS didn’t just put on a show. They built a belief system. If art is their religion, then the second-skin suit is their holy garment — one that challenges, unsettles, and, in its own way, sanctifies the body.
