For FW26, Ssheena explores the theme of power in its public and private forms, investigating the subtle boundary between institutional image and emotional vulnerability.
The collection draws inspiration from the aesthetics of governmental environments, the formalities of official protocols, and the inherent theatricality of political communication. Elements such as signatures on letterhead, stamps, and ink marks become visual metaphors for the weight of decisions, bureaucracy, and authority.
At the same time, more intimate details — like a smudged lipstick or the trace of a kiss — introduce a private dimension, suggesting the presence of hidden stories, scandals, and passions intertwined with public life. The narrative evokes the imagery of romantic escapes, discreet luxury, and the mobility of an elite power class: private jets, limousines, and presidential settings that symbolize a world where glamour coexists with institutional obligation.
The tension between the pursuit of freedom and public responsibility becomes the pulsating heart of the FW26 proposal.
Another key reference is American sports culture, particularly football: the energy of the final minute, the decisiveathletic gesture, the polarity between victory and defeat. These symbols enter the collection as an allegory of political and emotional competition, where the outcome is often determined by a single move, a choice, a mistake.
The title of the collection, LIFTOFF, expresses this dynamic of ascent and escape: we love peering inside the halls of power, observing their rules, rituals, and contradictions. But immediately after, we want to break free from them — to wander with our imagination into a place that does not exist, to escape far away and turn a glossy, idealized world into something real by stripping it of its constraints.

A flight toward a possible and impossible elsewhere: NOWHERE ELSE.

Thus, FW26 shapes an aesthetic that blends institutional formality, dramatic tension, and controlled sensuality, revealing the backstage of power through materials, silhouettes, and details that evoke both an electoral campaign and a newly exposed intimacy — and ultimately, the very moment of takeoff into a liberated imaginary.