Fforme Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear

“Easy living,” I wrote in my notes during the middle of Fforme’s presentation. “This is a summer show,” Frances Howie had explained the day before at the brand’s downtown studio, and summer for her meant swimming and surfing in “the most rugged, wild, remote volcanic beaches on the west coast of Auckland, New Zealand,” where she grew up. “I swam and I surfed—that was my whole childhood,” she recalled. “And when I left and moved to London, I ended up in Cornwall because it has a very similar atmosphere.” It was easy to see the influence—the models with their bare faces and undone hair in uncomplicated clothes that had the ease of T-shirts. Almost all long dresses were hemmed right above the ankle, and the models wore basic braided leather flip-flops (did you know they call them