Grace Ling’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Future Relics, walked the line between ruin and refinement, presenting pieces interlaced with threads of ancient and futuristic characteristics – artifacts of tomorrow. Inspired by the designer’s love of antique shopping and found objects, the collection leaned into biomorphic tailoring and sculptural silhouettes, each garment treated as an artifact of its own narrative.  

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Looks played with the tension between destruction and precision. The Couture Leaf Dress opened the show like a relic unearthed from somewhere distant and unexplored, its fragility setting the tone. The Foliage Silk Trench and Wilded Rose Bag carried whispers of decay, while padlock blazers and knife-sheath closures turn everyday objects into symbols of strength. Leather burned and frayed, fabrics faded into translucency, and cracks rippled across skirts and dresses, suggesting fragility and spontaneous resilience. The garments dissect notions of concealment and revealment through glitches, burns, and cracks. These features ran through the collection – bias-cut maxi dresses that looked scorched, gowns that shimmered, and jersey dresses belted with sculptural hardware. 

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Each piece carried the idea of relics reimagined: what survives, what breaks down, and what beauty remains. Accessories amplified the narrative, dagger bags, charms that resembled combs and keys, and poison flower clutches, all talismans of Ling’s world, where femininity is both innocent and savage. 

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Closing with the ethereal Glitched Bride and the windswept couture brand dress, Ling solidified Future Relics as a meditation on time, transformation, and craft.

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