Chloé Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Chloé Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear Collection
By Ainsley Bonner — October 16 2026
It would be easy to describe the Chloé woman as a romantic. Creative director Chemena Kamali’s latest collection makes that description feel almost too simple.
Chloé has long carried an instantly recognizable sense of femininity — romantic, free, soft, sensual, and, at times, bohemian. Kamali’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection certainly portrays that familiar Chloé woman, but it also complicates her. Beautiful lace, lingerie, flowers, and enormous romantic silhouettes appear right alongside fisherman coats, Bermuda shorts, leather, and sharp tailoring.
The most interesting part of the collection is not any one of those elements on its own, but how naturally Kamali allows them to exist together. Delicate pieces meet structured ones. Revealing silhouettes are grounded by masculine tailoring. References pulled from Chloé’s past somehow feel entirely of the present. Rather than asking the Chloé woman to fit neatly into one aesthetic, Kamali gives her the freedom to move between them.
Throughout the collection, the house’s familiar feminine aesthetic was taken and turned up a few notches. The lace became more intricate, sleeves got larger, flowers became three-dimensional, and skirts expanded in tiers all around the body. The details that have long made Chloé feel like Chloé are still there, but this season, they are impossible to ignore.
Broderie anglaise is one of the clearest examples. The technique appeared again and again throughout the collection, tying back to Chloé’s early pieces and the kind of delicate femininity that has followed the label throughout its history.
In lighter fabrics and white, the eyelet felt airy, youthful, and almost innocent. In black, that same idea became darker and more sensual. In heavier fabrics, it took on an entirely different job, becoming more sculptural than delicate.
The collection’s silhouettes received the same treatment. Sleeves billowed far beyond the arms, skirts took up more space, and ruffles seemed to emerge from anywhere. Flowers became dimensional appliqués. There was something undeniably nostalgic about it all, but the exaggerated proportions kept the collection from feeling like a recreation of Chloé’s past.
Kamali rarely let the fantasy exist completely uninterrupted. Look 11 pairs a sheer, feminine blouse with enormous sleeves against tailored Bermuda shorts. Neither piece seems like it should belong to the same idea of dressing, yet together they make sense. It is one of the first signs that the Chloé woman Kamali created is not interested in choosing just one version of herself.
After all the lace, ruffles, and sheer fabrics, the sudden emergence of large, structured fisherman coats felt quite unexpected. The Chloé woman who had spent much of the runway in delicate, revealing pieces then disappeared beneath oversized outerwear.
Large capes fell past the body, hats covered the head and even the face, and waterproof fabrics entered a collection that only moments before seemed completely wrapped up in delicacy and romance.
But the shift is not as random as it first appears. Fisherman-inspired outerwear has existed within Chloé's past, and Kamali brought it back without losing the softness established earlier in the collection. Instead, the two began to overlap. A romantic skirt slipped out from underneath a heavy coat. Ruffles and lace remained visible beneath layers.
It created one of the more interesting relationships in the collection. So many of Kamali's dresses and blouses revealed the body through lace, sheer fabrics, and plunging necklines, while the outerwear did almost the exact opposite. It covered the shape of the woman underneath. Still, one never seemed to overpower the other. The romance did not leave when the raincoats arrived; it was simply given another layer.
For all of the lace, flowers, and lingerie on the runway, some of the collection’s strongest looks took inspiration from a completely different wardrobe. Tailored trousers, Bermuda shorts, leather, and structured jackets repeatedly found their way into Kamali’s otherwise romantic world. These traditionally masculine pieces seemed to expand what femininity can look like for Chloé.
There is history behind this idea. Chloé women have long borrowed from menswear, something Kamali revisited through references like the house’s 1972 “Noël” suit. Rather than recreating those archival looks exactly, she pulled their attitude into the present. The tailoring was relaxed and worn alongside pieces that would traditionally belong with a much different kind of wardrobe.
Rather than using these more masculine pieces to take away from the romance of the collection, Kamali let them fully become part of it. A Chloé woman can wear lace one moment and tailored pants the next, or — as certain looks proved — she can seamlessly wear both at once.
By the end of the collection, it became difficult to define the Chloé woman with just one word. Romantic might be the first that comes to mind, but it does not account for the oversized fisherman coats, meticulous tailoring, or leather. Bohemian feels familiar, but even that seems too limiting. Kamali gave us a woman who can move between all of these things without ever becoming someone else.
That might be what made the collection feel so distinctly Chloé while still pushing the house forward. Kamali did not abandon the lace, flowers, flowing silhouettes, or nostalgia that have become so closely tied to the brand. Instead, she gave them something to add. The softness felt more noticeable beside leather. Lingerie felt different next to men’s tailoring. A romantic skirt became even more romantic when it was barely visible underneath an oversized raincoat.
None of these contrasts seem to ask the Chloé woman to pick a side. She can be romantic and practical, exposed and protected, soft and structured. Even the pieces pulled from the house's past will not keep her there. Kamali uses them to build a woman who feels less like an idea of who the “Chloé woman” is supposed to be and more like someone who can change depending on the moment.
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