Princess Sirivannavari Blends High Fashion and Nature in Autumn/Winter 2026/27 Collection

 

Fresh from Milan, the Thai royal designer unveils 36 looks of hand-built moss, recycled watch parts and bold Thai silks, shaped by treks, jumps and cold peaks.

 

Visitors to Nextopia at Siam Paragon did not so much take their seats as enter a forest. The runway had been shaped to feel like a trail, with real trees along the route and a soundtrack that blended new music with the hush of woodland.

 

Models came through in nylon that billowed like parachute canopies. Thai silk caught the light and fell in long, rippling lines, and little tufts of “moss” seemed to grow across the fabric.

 

This was the setting for the Autumn/Winter 2026/27 collection from SIRIVANNAVARI, the Thai luxury label led by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya, its Creative Director. Titled “Echoes of Altitude”, it follows a well-received first preview at Milan Fashion Week.

 

 

A show built around adventure

Speaking to the press before the show on Thursday evening (October 29), the Princess said the setting was chosen with intent. The brand usually presents in familiar shopping-centre spaces, but this season’s themes of jungle trekking, skydiving and life outdoors called for something less conventional.

 

Nextopia, a new venue for the label, was transformed into a runway meant to feel like a hike through the woods or a leap from a plane.

 

The guiding idea, she explained, was “Citizens of the world” combined with respect for the natural world. The ethos reached into the staging. The fact sheet notes that the paper chairs were passed on to Nextopia for continued use, and the live trees will be replanted after the show.

 

 

 

Quality over quantity

The collection has 36 looks. The Princess said she wanted each to stand on its own, with a clear message and an everyday life beyond the catwalk.

 

Some looks were not seen in Milan, and others were reworked to be more wearable and more varied. She did not feel the collection needed more, she said, at this point.

 

The overall direction is what the house calls “sporty couture”.
 

Inflated silhouettes and volume take their cue from parachutes and from the hot-air balloons she watched at sunrise over Cappadocia in Türkiye. Drawstrings, carabiner hooks and the brand’s “S” emblem echo mountaineering kit from Italy’s Mount Etna.

 

Outerwear highlights include cropped jackets with concealed hoods, hooded gilets, voluminous skirts and balloon-draped evening gowns.

 

 

Moss, rust and a lost compass

The most revealing part of the interview concerned how the textiles were made. The team did not buy the fabric for one standout look. They created it, cutting and reworking cloth into a heavy, sculptural surface and then building up a texture inspired by tiny mosses.

 

Behind it lies a small story.

 

“If we go trekking and want to leave something behind, something to remember someone by, say an old watch or a compass that falls to the ground, it slowly rusts and the moss grows over it,” the Princess said. “I took that imagination, made it real, then cut and applied it piece by piece.”

 

A sports jacket in Thai silk, quilted and reworked with small moss details, shows the same approach. The craft goes further. Atelier & Academy artisans produced three-dimensional hand embroidery using multicoloured ostrich feathers, moss-covered rocks and lily-of-the-valley blooms, recalling the meadows and flowers the Princess remembers from hiking and diving in Palau.

 

 

 

Embossed motifs depict balloons and mountain ranges, and quilted triangles of leather, laid like peaks over sheer organza, set rugged against delicate. Her own writings are embroidered as hidden sentences in pieces such as cargo trousers and a pencil skirt.

 

 

 

Vintage watches reborn

 

The accessories take the recycling idea literally. Unwanted vintage watches were taken apart, their inner workings removed, and the pieces rebuilt into buttons, flower brooches, rings, bracelets, belts and even neckties. In some cases, watch straps were cut and rejoined as part of a new design.

 

The Princess likened the process to making a garment from scratch, with the surface of each piece designed anew. Several things make the pieces worth collecting. Each starts life as a discarded vintage timepiece, so no two are the same, and the character of the original watch stays visible in the finished jewel.

 

The pieces are made in limited numbers and will not be repeated, which gives them the rarity collectors tend to value. They are also unisex, equally at home on a lapel, a wrist or a necktie, and they carry the collection’s story: the forgotten watch that nature slowly reclaims.

 

Alongside the embroidery and fabric work, they show the same handcraft the label has become known for, and they fit the Earth-First theme in a way that is practical as well as symbolic.

 

For collectors, then, the appeal lies as much in the narrative and craftsmanship as in the scarcity, since these are pieces that, once made, will not be made again.

 

 

 

Menswear with a point of view

Menswear, a growing part of the label, gets distinctive treatment. The Princess pointed to silk worked to resemble eggshell, as well as fine embroidery in tiny cubes that reads like moss.

 

She is also developing a jacket she hopes will become a signature of the menswear line.

 

A cloak in the collection uses hill-tribe appliqué, folded and stitched by hand by artisans of the SUPPORT Foundation, and one men’s jacket carries a digital print inside, taken from the Princess’s own travel photographs.

 

The accessories include the Altura, a square crossbody bag inspired by the Princess’s camera bags, made with Italian materials, and the Bond, a multi-function backpack with bright braided cord. A compact nappa leather drawstring bag draws on camera-lens pouches.

 

 

The headline pieces are the La Luna bucket bags in exotic skins, a first for the brand. Three such bags appeared on the runway: one in white crocodile, one in blue ostrich, which the Princess said would suit jeans, and one in pink ostrich. The pastel palette puts a refined face on the wilderness theme.

 

According to the fact sheet, the edition is limited to just six pieces, in ostrich and Himalaya crocodile, and they are aimed at collectors who own every La Luna.

 

 

 

Thai textiles through foreign eyes

Asked about the reaction in Milan, the Princess said international guests were struck by how boldly Thai fabrics were used and by how much the cloth itself has developed.

 

Many foreign observers, she said, still picture Thai textiles as they were 60 or 70 years ago. This time they saw something modern and found it interesting.

 

The collection draws on plain silk, “eggshell” black silk and handwoven fabric from the Koh Koet arts centre in Ayutthaya, blended into contemporary silhouettes for both women and men.

 

 

“We want to use Thai identity without saying ‘this is Thai’,” she said. “We want it to look seamless and universal.”

 

The strongest praise, she noted, was for the handwork and the fabric development. Into the mountains Part of the inspiration came from the team’s own experience.

 

For the campaign, the whole crew travelled to Kio Mae Pan on Doi Inthanon, Thailand’s highest peak, and spent three to four days in the forest.

 

 

They wrote concepts and photographed the clothes in situ. The green moss and the particular chill of the mountain, which she described as a cold that suits Thai temperament, left a lasting impression. She praised the team for engaging fully with the collection.

 

“We don’t do small things,” she said. “We do big things.”

 

Asked how she balances creativity with caring for nature, the Princess said the two are inseparable. Creativity is everywhere, and nature itself is creative, constantly producing something new. It shows us what we have never seen or have overlooked, and it takes us back to basics. It is also personal.

 

 

“When I feel low, I go back to nature and let it clean up my mind,” she said. “Then I start new creativity.”

 

Her advice to the journalists in the room, who spend much of their time in the city, was to get outdoors more. She also invited the press and public to follow upcoming events, including the judging of Thai textiles and the UNESCO decision day.