Charlie Le Mindu Translates Hair Into Structure
The “SKINS” Spring/Summer 2026 collection treats hair as its primary material.
Charlie Le Mindu has just unveiled the Spring/Summer 2026 couture collection: “SKINS,” an exploration of hair as structure, surface and architecture. Featuring bushy bikinis and draping capes made of human hair, designer Charlie Le Mindu says his reentry into the runway world is no longer about body positivity — it’s about body visibility.
After a decade since Charlie Le Mindu’s last collection, “SKINS” is said to exist where power and desire quietly intersect. “Hair, always present, always intimate, carries its own identity,” the brand says in a press release. “With ‘SKINS,’ Charlie Le Mindu does not propose an image of the body — he offers a state of being. There is punk in the restraint, in the refusal to soften the message. Just the body telling the truth.” In collaboration with PornHub, “SKINS” emphasizes that empowerment shouldn’t need to be desexualized in order to be taken seriously.
When hair becomes structure, scent lends itself to emotional language. Harping on this, Charlie Le Mindu also partners with Byredo, citing the beauty brand’s innate ability to redefine fragrance and makeup as physical manifestations of intimacy and memories — a core principle of “SKINS” and its reinterpretation of hair as a second skin.
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