Christopher Esber Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear

If Christopher Esber’s fall collection read automotive, there’s a good reason for that: after re-watching David Cronenberg’s Crash, he decided to transpose upholstered materials, curved metal, padded surfaces, buckles, harnesses and so forth into a sartorial expression. Over Zoom, the designer said that his idea was not to go for oversexuality but rather "a quiet charge" that might emerge from the relationship between skin and surfaces, softness and structure. “Looking at technology and the body, from airbags and seatbelts to the interior of cars and how we feel protected and enveloped by them, sort of like a womb, is something we hadn’t explored before,” said Esber. It also opened up a highway of possibilities for textures and finish, with a particular affinity for the ’70s.