Eight pieces make up the SIMPLE PROJECT AW26 outerwear selection, Soft Constructions. None of them give themselves up at a glance. The Hangzhou based designer brand, founded by designer duo Chen Hang and Wang Yue Feng, has built this season around construction you have to go looking for: a waist belt fixed only partway across the back, a throat latch that turns an open collar into a standing one, leather set beneath a button where the pull is hardest.

ILNYA NIETERNITE NIFUTUR's AW26 collection, titled Woven Bonds, starts with a plain admission: that some weight is carried by choice. The Shenzhen based label, founded in 2020 by head designer Yang Pengyu, has always created around ideas of contradiction, emotion against reason, freedom against belonging. Woven Bonds turns that argument onto the body directly. What holds a person in place? Work, responsibility, the expectations of others, etc…