Ruohan Nie is obsessed with details. A closer look at her take on quiet luxury reveals how much is going on under the seemingly mundane surface.

Spring 2026 marks the second chapter of the Chinese designer’s odyssey of the seasons. She looked at the colors — mostly various shades of blue — and textures of a summer night.

The lineup was poetic, delicate but not flimsy. Nie utilized coated materials like wax cupro to give shapes to garments that would have been soft.

The other takeaway from summer was this sense of endlessness. “Like how you never finish reading a book, and that for me is the rhythm of summer,” Nie said.

She visualized that rhythm through knitwear by combing different yarns of cashmere, mohair and silk to form uneven lines in the garments. “I call it the floating yarn ef

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