This season, designer Sandra Sándor became enamored with the work of Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian architect and esoterist who became widely known for his occultism and self-proclaimed clairvoyance. “He’s contradictory in some places, but there were a lot of things I really admired in his works,” she said.
A visit to Steiner’s London home, filled with organic shapes and modular pieces, cemented Nanushka’s pre-spring 2026 offering. A khaki trench coat can transform into a bolero or a vest; a tank dress can be worn with or without its billowing sleeves and high-neck collar; a “collar” waistband on a pair of jeans can be tacked down with buttons.
Steiner’s influence could also be felt in the season’s color palette: a mostly neutral affair with occasional pops of stem green, petal pink, and tomato red. “He saw colors as living beings,” Sándor said. “The way he applied colors in paintings, it was the idea that colors float in space and they’re not attached to physical surfaces.” Hence, the recurrent dip-dye motif she brings to a long-sleeve maxi dress and a button-through skirt. “They kind of have that floating vibe.”
But it seems Sándor found more than passing inspiration in the architect; she said she felt especially drawn to his pronouncement: “Matter is never without spirit. Spirit is never without matter.”
“When I design my collections, I really try to also have that mindset,” she said. “I just love to have this deeper meaning when I design. I look at themes—not just an era—because that gives me the drive with every season.”