Hector Maclean Spring/Summer 2027, ‘Obscuritas’

CONTENT WARNING: this release dis­cuss­es men­tal health and suicide.

LONDON FASHION WEEK, FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2026

‘Obscu­ri­tas’ takes its name from the Latin for dark­ness. Drawn from Maclean’s loss of three close friends to sui­cide, the design­er uses his Spring/Summer 2027 col­lec­tion to trace a jour­ney from dark­ness into light — a strug­gle he sees echoed wide­ly in the cre­ative indus­tries. ‘Obscu­ri­tas’ is his way of draw­ing atten­tion to that real­i­ty while turn­ing it into art: express­ing and releas­ing some­thing that has haunt­ed him, trans­formed into some­thing to be worn open­ly rather than hid­den away.

The sil­hou­ettes are clas­si­cal yet mod­ern, at times abstract, in tulle, stretch cot­ton, linen and wool. Fab­rics are bleached, print­ed and, for the first time, hand-paint­ed — emo­tion applied direct­ly onto cloth, so each gar­ment becomes its own indi­vid­ual art­work. What began as a print­ed treat­ment shift­ed to hand paint­ing under bud­get con­straints, but the change gave the work an unex­pect­ed inti­ma­cy — a phys­i­cal artis­tic act of get­ting feel­ing into the garment.

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty sits at the core of Maclean’s prac­tice. Obscu­ri­tas is built using zero-waste pat­tern cut­ting, keep­ing fab­ric out of land­fill by design. Maclean is thank­ful this sea­son to Bel­gar­i­an Fab­rics, and to the fam­i­ly of the late Sophia Kokos­ala­ki — her hus­band Antony Bak­er and daugh­ter Stel­li — for archive fab­ric and tools. We are proud to part­ner with Dr Beck­mann, whose focus on gar­ment care and extend­ing the life of cloth­ing aligns nat­u­ral­ly with Maclean’s com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing pieces designed to be val­ued and preserved.

“I love the team at Mind and what they’re doing. I want this col­lec­tion to speak to any­one who’s strug­gling with their men­tal health and to remind them that they are not alone, that there is sup­port available.”

ABOUT HECTOR MACLEAN

A grad­u­ate of Cen­tral Saint Mar­tins, Maclean refined his craft at Vivi­enne West­wood, Mark Fast, JW Ander­son and Jonathan Saun­ders before debut­ing his own label at Lon­don Fash­ion Week in Sep­tem­ber 2023. His work has appeared in VOGUE, Tatler, Forbes, Elle, Per­fect Mag­a­zine, Harpers Bazaar and the Times and the Inde­pen­dent. It has been worn by Priyan­ka Chopra, Ash­ley Gra­ham, Griff, Hol­ly Hum­ber­stone, Ella Bright and Jade Thirlwall.

MIND CHARITY

Mind is the lead­ing men­tal health char­i­ty in Eng­land and Wales, pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion and sup­port, cam­paign­ing for bet­ter men­tal health ser­vices, and work­ing with over 100 local Minds across the coun­try. With 1 in 4 peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing a men­tal health prob­lem each year and around 1.6 mil­lion peo­ple in the UK cur­rent­ly wait­ing for treat­ment, men­tal health affects us all. As the show takes place short­ly after World Sui­cide Pre­ven­tion Day (10th Sep­tem­ber), every con­ver­sa­tion mat­ters — by speak­ing open­ly, chal­leng­ing stig­ma and encour­ag­ing peo­ple to seek sup­port, we can help ensure that no one has to strug­gle alone.

This col­lec­tion dis­cuss­es sui­cide and depres­sion. If you’ve been affect­ed by any­thing in this press release, please call Mind’s helpline on 0300 123 3393 or vis­it mind.org.uk

BEHIND THE SCENES

Run­way images Ben Mont­gomery
Behind the scenes images Car­lo Pilla

In Aid Of: Mind, the men­tal health char­i­ty
Web: mind.org.uk
Insta­gram: @MindCharity

Spon­sors: Dr Beck­mann, Hair by Sam McK­night, Lit­tle Greene paint, Beglar­i­an Fab­rics, Jaffe Feath­ers, Cham­pagne de Bleuchamp, and the estate of Sophia Kokos­ala­ki and Antony Baker

Web: hectormaclean.london
Insta­gram: @hectormacleanlondon