SAGIO Wants You to Question Which Version of Yourself You're Dressing

There is the person you are when nobody is looking, the person you become when you walk into a room, and the version of yourself you deliberately build through what you wear. Sometimes those versions line up perfectly. Sometimes they absolutely do not.

For Spring/Summer 2027, SAGIO is interested in that gap.

Who Do You See When You Look at Yourself?

“REMIX: XVIII REBORN” starts with a deceptively simple question: how do we see ourselves?

Designer Alexander Sagio treats identity as something that changes with perspective rather than something permanently fixed. Light, movement, distance, mood: shift any of them and suddenly the person in the mirror looks slightly different.

That idea runs through the collection, where sharply defined silhouettes meet draping, twisting construction, sculptural volumes, translucent layers, and reflective surfaces.

The clothes don't necessarily give you one clear answer about who is wearing them. They keep changing the question.

Maria Antoinette vs. Veruschka

SAGIO found two very different ways of thinking about identity in Maria Antoinette and Veruschka.

Maria Antoinette understood clothing as spectacle. Her dresses, silhouettes, and elaborate presentation helped construct an image of herself for a world that was constantly watching. Fashion became both armor and performance.

Veruschka went somewhere completely different. Through body painting, camouflage, photography, and transformation, she repeatedly abandoned a fixed idea of what she was supposed to look like. Woman, animal, landscape, sculpture: the body could become almost anything.

One built an identity through clothing. The other dissolved hers through transformation.

That contrast gives the collection its real tension.

Water Is the Mood Board

The collection uses water as its visual metaphor, which makes perfect sense once you see where SAGIO is going with all this.

A still surface gives you a recognizable reflection. Move the water and the image breaks apart. A second later, it comes together again.

The clothes behave in a similar way.

Some pieces keep a crisp, unmistakable outline. Others let the body disappear into folds, transparency, reflection, and movement. Materials react differently depending on the light, while proportions and layers can completely change how a silhouette reads from one angle to another.

It's fashion that refuses to stay still long enough to be reduced to one picture.

Maybe Rebirth Isn't Becoming Someone New

That is probably the part of “REBORN” I find most interesting.

The collection isn't really talking about reinvention as becoming a completely different person. It's about recognizing the different versions of yourself and realizing they don't have to compete.

Sagio puts it more bluntly in the collection statement: fashion moves quickly, constantly asking designers to produce more and respond to what has already been seen. His answer is to protect the freedom to make something personal instead of simply producing another familiar image.

And maybe that's the better reason to get dressed in the first place.

You don't have to decide which version of yourself is the real one. You can let all of them exist, change, contradict each other, and occasionally show up in the same outfit.