Paula Raia enters a state of ‘Transe’ for Autumn/Winter 2026

Paula Raia presented ‘Transe’, its Autumn/Winter 2026 collection, at Galeria Pivô in São Paulo. The collection begins in the pause before an idea becomes an object — a state the designer describes as neither dream nor full consciousness.

References to artists Lygia Clark and Joan Mitchell informed a study of gesture, suspension and the relationship between clothing and the body. The result moved between enveloping forms and pieces whose construction remained visibly active.

A denim capsule developed with Canatiba Têxtil introduced Tencel fibres into the material story. It placed an industrial textile inside a collection otherwise framed by intuition and artistic process, creating a useful tension between repeatable production and singular gesture.

After sixteen years in business, Paula Raia continues to treat a collection as research. ‘Transe’ makes the unfinished creative threshold — normally hidden before a garment appears — the subject of the clothes themselves.