Coperni Spring 2026: Feel Good Factor
The best clothes are the ones that make you feel good in your skin and that’s what Coperni’s spring collection was about.
Founders Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant are unrepentant technophiles, as they’ve shown in the past with spraypainted dresses, robot dogs and even their popular Swipe bag, inspired by an iPhone feature. “Our challenge was to transform our passion for innovation and science into something soft and more human,” Vaillant said before the show.
Like, say, infusing skin care into a second-skin foundation layer, which is the idea behind the new C+ “carewear” line they dropped a couple of days before their show exclusively on their e-commerce.
Five years in the making, the line developed with Swiss materials innovation specialist HeiQ embeds millions of prebiotic and probiotic bacteria meant to nourish the skin. The effect is meant to regenerate itself through wear, but should it fade, “you still have a piece of clothing” unlike beauty product containers, Vaillant pointed out.
The idea of wellness suffused the rest of their spring collection, right down to Pilates shoes in collaboration with footwear brand Barreletics and versions of the Swipe — in solid pink quartz, tiger eye or green tourmaline, clocking in at 3.5 kilograms.
Seeking to rein in the activewear vibe of their new line, the duo mixed them on the one hand with smart high-collar shirts, tailoring and intricate pleated silk numbers inspired by Renaissance écorché anatomical sketches showing musculature without skin covering it.
On the other, flowing harem-style pants, trousers with zips all the way up to the thigh, draped tops and balloon bustier dresses telegraphed laid-back luxury. They rounded off a collection that felt as polished as those crystal bags.
