Lazoschmidl Spring/Summer 2026 is an autobiographical love story&mdash;a &ldquo;Get Ready With Me&rdquo; edition of desire, distance, and duality. Born from a long-distance journey toward everlasting love, it reflects on traveling for both business and pleasure.

&ldquo;California skies, Paris nights. Baby, we can leave tonight.&rdquo;

The collection lives in the tension between intimacy and extimity&mdash;what we reveal versus what we conceal. SS26 offers a wardrobe that blurs binaries: conformist attire disrupted by naive queer charm.
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&ldquo;Workwear by 9, fantasy by 9:30. Some clothes tell the truth. Others tell the story you want to live.&rdquo;
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Minimalist silhouettes in classic banker stripes are joined by vivid rainbow glitter prints and wide-eyed Manga artworks. The clothes nod to the designers&rsquo; personal histories&mdash;from Lazo&rsquo;s London Nu Rave years to Schmidl&rsquo;s Frankfurt thesis on Japanese pop literature.
Signature elements return as prompts: archive imagery, once featured in their fanzine &lsquo;Unpublished Material&rsquo;, now reappears as DIY iron-ons and digitally printed mesh.

THE PRESENTATION: A LIVING INSTALLATION

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&ldquo;Rendezvous&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t a runway. It&rsquo;s a ritual of transformation.
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Over 2.5 hours, ten male models evolve in real time, changing from one look&mdash;and one persona&mdash;to the next. They move through semi-transparent, mobile cabins, dressing and undressing in front of the audience. These sculptural booths aren&rsquo;t just backstage&mdash;they&rsquo;re stages in themselves, challenging the viewer&rsquo;s gaze.
The performance explores the performativity of identity: each outfit becomes a new layer of self, a curated moment of becoming. In a culture defined by scrolling and self-editing, Lazoschmidl invites us to witness the full GRWM sequence&mdash;unedited, in real time. No filter. No cut.

VOYEURISM &amp; CHOICE IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Set in a sunlit Parisian courtyard, the installation toys with privacy and exposure&mdash;where digital life has collapsed the boundary between what is seen and what is shown. Models decide how much to reveal, while the audience negotiates their own gaze.
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&ldquo;Visibility is a choice&mdash;but interpretation never is.&rdquo;
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This fluid mirror between viewer and performer echoes current conversations around mental health, body image, and the commodification of beauty (see: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, or Le Monde&rsquo;s 2024 report on digital filters and addiction). In Rendezvous, Lazoschmidl reclaims that tension. The model shows what he wants to show; the spectator sees what they want to see.

FROM THE DESIGNERS: INSPIRATION &amp; CULTURE

What inspired this collection? 
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about the rituals of preparing for a first date. The excitement, the self-questioning, the layering of identities you try on in the mirror. We wanted to take this daily moment of performance and make it visible&mdash;make it art.&rdquo;
What about the colors and spirit? 
&ldquo;Our colors this season range from corporate neutrals to full-spectrum joy. We worked with soft, washed-out blues and pinks &mdash; the kind you see in California skies at dusk &mdash; and contrasted them with vivid hues of hand-bleached yellow denim.&rdquo;
Your creative influences? 
&ldquo;Haruki Murakami taught us about dream states and emotional distance. Wolfgang Tillmans helped us see beauty in queer youth and the everyday erotic. Miley Cyrus&mdash;her defiance, her freedom&mdash;is pure inspiration. We like people who turn vulnerability into power.&rdquo;
Your dreams?
&ldquo;To keep making fashion that&rsquo;s emotional and fearless. To dissolve the line between fantasy and reality.&rdquo;
What&rsquo;s your motto 
&ldquo;Taste the forbidden fruit. &mdash; Because desire is where everything starts. Fashion, like love, should tempt you into unknown territory &mdash; make you feel something you&rsquo;re not supposed to. That&rsquo;s where truth lives.&rdquo;

Photos - courtesy of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/apomesphoto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ANTHONY POMES</a>

LAZOSCHMIDL Spring/Summer 2026 “RENDEZVOUS”

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