January 29, 2026 |
Robert Wun’s latest couture collection was a tale in three parts. Staged inside the Lido cabaret club, his statuesque models walked against giant screens that projected ferocious thunderstorms. Wun, who has quickly emerged as a highlight on couture calendar since joining the official schedule three seasons ago, is a fierce defender of fashion’s highest art form. “In the world of couture, it is often questioned whether it still reflects who we are, but I believe it still exists because it reflects how we wish to be,” wrote the designer in his show notes. “A dream, the ability to dream, and the will to keep dreaming. They all exist because of a creator’s courage and their purest intention to create.”
The first act, called Library, was defined as the “purest form of dreams”. Wun was thinking about trawling through books and how black and white imagery can help inspire the most colourful of thoughts. Here, monochromatic dresses looked as if they were engineered from paper, both delicate in their construction and grand in silhouette. Moving into the Luxury section – where looks were designed to “provoke envy and lure” – Wun leaned into the decadent side to his design handwriting. Models came wearing velvet-covered bodices draped in elegant Anabela Chan jewels. It was as if the wearers had bid on the fabulous necklaces in auction and decided they were going to wear not only the stones themselves, but the mannequins they were displayed on.
Finishing things off with Valour, a procession of looks defined as a “celebration of the determination of the creator, who are often behind the curtains”, Wun and his atelier were really flexed their creative chops. Here, ballgowns were drenched in cobalt blue Swarovski crystals; liquid-y column dresses swirled around the contours of the body, armoured by hard, metallic torsos; a wedding dress came not in white but showered in a galaxy of stars, each of which twinkled thanks to hand-sewn stones. Talk about out-of-this-world beauty, Robert Wun is star in his own right.
Photography courtesy of Robert Wun.
