Rami Kadi's "Bataille Dorée" Turns Couture Into a Study of Handwork

Rami Kadi Bataille Dorée: Fall Winter 2026/27 Couture

Maison Rami Kadi has unveiled its Fall/Winter 2026/27 couture collection, Bataille Dorée, framing the season as a tribute to Western craftsmanship and the slow, deliberate work of making by hand. The Lebanese couturier, known for his signature sculptural embellishment on the couture calendar, uses this collection to return to first principles, reworking traditional techniques shaped by patience and precision through a contemporary lens in which, as the house puts it, raw authenticity and refined elegance are held in dialogue.

The collection runs to forty looks, and across them the emphasis falls squarely on texture and construction. Crochet-inspired embroideries are layered against pony hair, rich surface treatments, and built-up materials, while the silhouettes themselves are designed to move between strength and fluidity, sculptural without turning rigid. It is a technically dense proposition, and the house is explicit that much of the interest lies in the making, with newly developed embroidery techniques and intricate fringes worked from crystals, beads, semi-precious stones, and metal accents intended to read as couture assembled, in the maison's phrasing, stitch by stitch.

The palette keeps the collection grounded in landscape. Rami Kadi draws on the earthy tones of Western terrains, moving through warm browns, soft neutrals, and muted greens into deeper wine shades, a register meant to evoke weathered ground and handmade materials rather than the high-shine glamour often associated with embellished couture. The effect the house is after is a quieter kind of opulence, where the richness sits in the surface and the workmanship rather than in color or spectacle.

Taken together, Bataille Dorée reads as an argument for craftsmanship as the real luxury, a tradition carried forward into something the maison describes as timeless, luminous, and unmistakably modern. For a couturier whose reputation rests on the labor visible in every garment, it is a fitting thesis for the season, one that positions handwork itself as the collection's central subject.

The collection was photographed by Karl Dagher, with campaign and atelier imagery by Nader Moussally, behind-the-scenes videography by Larissy Leandro, and hair and makeup by Laura Marín Durán.