Marie Lueder Unveils SS26 “SLⱯY” At Berlin Fashion Week

For Spring/Summer 2026, Marie Lueder returns with SLⱯY, a genre-defying performance presented during INTERVENTION at Berlin Fashion Week. Blurring the line between runway and ritual, the collection is staged as a mythic fashion play — a contemporary reframing of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon.

But here, the dragon isn’t just folklore. It becomes a stand-in for modern-day monsters: digital delusions, systemic power, and inherited trauma. And the hero? No sword. No conquest. Just the slow, defiant work of transformation — through softness, vulnerability, and psychic resistance.

Following SS25’s alchemical cleanse, SLⱯY enters the wound. The collection explores what's left in the residue: fear, violence, and identity in flux. Drawing from medieval symbology, theatre, and contemporary psychodrama, Lueder reimagines fashion as myth in motion.

Silhouettes walk the tightrope between protection and surrender: sculpted shoulders, fluid jersey shields, distressed textures, softened tailoring as wearable armour. Talismanic fastenings and scorched edges whisper of battles past — and rebirths still coming.

In collaboration with Italy’s Dye House Tintoria Emiliana, artist Eben Weile Kjaer, and longtime movement/art director David Varhegyi, the collection carries deep symbolic layers. Customised footwear by UGG adds an unexpected grounding to the mythos, while actors and artists Ruby Commey, Luisa Gaffron, and Roman Ole breathe narrative into the clothes. Casting by Kyra Sophie, styling by Tati Cotliar.

As the show unfolds, archetypes collapse. The Hero could be a single mother. The Princess, a parody of masculinity. The Dragon — maybe it lives in your feed. Or your mind.

Because SLⱯY doesn’t ask who wins the fight. It asks what we’re fighting — and who we must become to survive it.