{"id":1848885,"date":"2026-03-26T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1848885"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:23:00","slug":"crying-in-couture-ellie-misners-new-collection-is-a-beautiful-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1848885","title":{"rendered":"Crying in couture: Ellie Misner\u2019s new collection is a beautiful disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1049\/0-265-1049-699\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442593.jpeg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/fashion\/article\/69995\/1\/ellie-misner-aw26-demi-couture-collection-is-a-beautiful-disaster\" data-article-id=\"69995\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.74\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"1415\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1049\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442593.jpeg\" width=\"1049\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of <span class=\"nowrap\">Ellie Misner<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-26T17:23:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - fashion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\">Fashion<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\">Fashion<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Crying in couture: Ellie Misner\u2019s new collection is a <span class=\"nowrap\">beautiful disaster<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>The London designer takes the complicated emotions that come with turning 30 and transforms them into a conceptual offering that unravels at <span class=\"nowrap\">the party<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-26T17:23:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-26T17:23:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"26 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"26\">26,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/dazeddigital\">Dazed Digital<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-19-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Ellie Misner <span class=\"nowrap\">AW26 campaign<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/0\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-151-975-650\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442590.jpeg\" width=\"975\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/1\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-222-866-577\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442591.jpeg\" width=\"866\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/2\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-973-648\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442592.jpeg\" width=\"973\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/3\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-265-1049-699\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442593.jpeg\" width=\"1049\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/4\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-141-1004-669\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442598.jpeg\" width=\"1004\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36895\/5\/ellie-misner-aw26-campaign\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Misner AW26 campaign\" class=\"img\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-123-970-646\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442603.jpeg\" width=\"970\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 19 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a specific kind of dread reserved for birthdays that end in a zero \u2013 a low, buzzing anxiety that begins long before the candles are lit \u2013 and Ellie Misner knows it well. The London-based designer\u2019s AW26 demi-couture collection <\/span><em><span>It\u2019s My Birthday, I Can Cry If I Want To<\/span><\/em><span>, leans all the way into that feeling, capturing the anticipation, the existential spiral and the mascara-streaked comedown that follows across a series of show-stopping conceptual looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The collection and accompanying campaign sit somewhere between jazz bar fantasy and a memory you can\u2019t quite place, unfolding like a night out that\u2019s already teetering on the edge. Misner\u2019s birthday girl steps out of an Uber and into the action in a look that feels loaded with anticipation \u2013 glimmering with mother-of-pearl embellishments, it\u2019s almost too perfect. And then it gets \u2018ruined\u2019 by a glass of ros\u00e9, a wine stain blooming out across the ivory silk, immortalised in darker crystals. \u201cIt\u2019s a moment of disaster, but there\u2019s nothing you can do about it, so you just think, \u2018Fuck it\u2019, and make the best of it,\u201d says Misner.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cLife didn\u2019t feel as polished as I\u2019d imagined, so the collection reflects that. You can be a bit of a mess and still be fab\u201d \u2013 Ellie Misner<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It doesn\u2019t stop there, as the designer explores just about everything that could go wrong at a party and elevates it to high drama. Two identical gowns with zhuzh-y trains collide in a bathroom stand-off, a busted zip threatens to expose more than intended, and a heel snags on the carpet, so the carpet comes along for the ride. \u201cIt all comes from my nerves at turning 30,\u201d says Misner. \u201cI\u2019ve never been that into birthdays, and this one felt massive. There\u2019s so much pressure to be at a certain point in your life, to have achieved certain things. I found I hadn\u2019t hit a lot of those, and life didn\u2019t feel as polished as I\u2019d imagined, so the collection reflects that. You can be a bit of a mess and still be fab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What makes Misner\u2019s work hit harder this season is the tension between polish and unravelling. Her signature corsetry acts as both literal and emotional scaffolding \u2013 they\u2019re not so much restrictive garments as they are survival tools, holding everything together as everything else slips. Even at their most undone there\u2019s a sense of intention, as if to say \u2018Yes, this is falling apart, but I\u2019m choosing how\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Misner\u2019s world, things go wrong. Dresses stain, plans unravel, and people disappoint. And yet, the night continues. That\u2019s the best part of the collection \u2013 it\u2019s not about resisting the mess, but embracing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Click through the gallery above for a closer look<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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The London-based designer\u2019s AW26 demi-couture collection <\/span><em><span>It\u2019s My Birthday, I Can Cry If I Want To<\/span><\/em><span>, leans all the way into that feeling, capturing the anticipation, the existential spiral and the mascara-streaked comedown that follows across a series of show-stopping conceptual looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The collection and accompanying campaign sit somewhere between jazz bar fantasy and a memory you can\u2019t quite place, unfolding like a night out that\u2019s already teetering on the edge. Misner\u2019s birthday girl steps out of an Uber and into the action in a look that feels loaded with anticipation \u2013 glimmering with mother-of-pearl embellishments, it\u2019s almost too perfect. And then it gets \u2018ruined\u2019 by a glass of ros\u00e9, a wine stain blooming out across the ivory silk, immortalised in darker crystals. \u201cIt\u2019s a moment of disaster, but there\u2019s nothing you can do about it, so you just think, \u2018Fuck it\u2019, and make the best of it,\u201d says Misner.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cLife didn\u2019t feel as polished as I\u2019d imagined, so the collection reflects that. You can be a bit of a mess and still be fab\u201d \u2013 Ellie Misner<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It doesn\u2019t stop there, as the designer explores just about everything that could go wrong at a party and elevates it to high drama. Two identical gowns with zhuzh-y trains collide in a bathroom stand-off, a busted zip threatens to expose more than intended, and a heel snags on the carpet, so the carpet comes along for the ride. \u201cIt all comes from my nerves at turning 30,\u201d says Misner. \u201cI\u2019ve never been that into birthdays, and this one felt massive. There\u2019s so much pressure to be at a certain point in your life, to have achieved certain things. I found I hadn\u2019t hit a lot of those, and life didn\u2019t feel as polished as I\u2019d imagined, so the collection reflects that. You can be a bit of a mess and still be fab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What makes Misner\u2019s work hit harder this season is the tension between polish and unravelling. Her signature corsetry acts as both literal and emotional scaffolding \u2013 they\u2019re not so much restrictive garments as they are survival tools, holding everything together as everything else slips. Even at their most undone there\u2019s a sense of intention, as if to say \u2018Yes, this is falling apart, but I\u2019m choosing how\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Misner\u2019s world, things go wrong. Dresses stain, plans unravel, and people disappoint. And yet, the night continues. That\u2019s the best part of the collection \u2013 it\u2019s not about resisting the mess, but embracing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Click through the gallery above for a closer look<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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