T’ABBE’s 19-piece spring 2027 collection is consistent with the founder Talia Abbe’s aim to use T’ABBE to examine the emotional role clothing can play in our lives. This season, that idea turns to things inherited, imagined, and carried forward from one generation to another. The collection is incorporated with her family member’s now vintage looks and the creativity of children from an art contest through a partnership with Bring Change to Mind (BC2M). The collection brings up the tensions that arise in nostalgic and fantasy thinking between “deeply personal and deliberately theatrical.”
This collection is consistent in delivering ready-to-wear and refined separates with exaggerated volumes, custom textiles, and the inflatable latex elements primrose pink, deep wine, lemon meringue. The confectionary color palette of and powder blue is reminiscent of the colors in vintage collections from the 50s and 60s. The shifts in proportion move the clothes between something avant garde and toy like. The tension is intentional: between ease and exaggeration, vulnerability and protection, clothes designed for everyday life and those that allow for a degree of escape. Fashion and Lifestyle Influencer Jazmine Boutee of JDSeries reflects on the collection stating, “The collection inspired me to be more bold with my style choices and adding more color to my own wardrobe. And just being more whimsey and wearing what I want.”
This season, the ideas of whimsy and incorporating community were inspired by Abbe’s own family history. Through photos of her family, Abbe was able to see how her family would interpret trends and make it their own. She even learned that her own grandmother was once an aspiring designer, finding vintage sketches of a raincoat she imagined making. Through her familial discoveries, there is a deep consideration of inheritance: how something imagined by one generation can find a new life in another. “This collection feels particularly personal because it brings together different generations and different ways of expressing ourselves,” says Talia Abbe. “I was able to look at something my grandmother imagined creating and reconsider it through my own perspective, while also bringing the work of a young artist into the collection through Bring Change to Mind. They come from very different places, but both speak to the idea that what we create can carry something of our internal lives into the world.”
The business of whimsey, plays a big role in this collection and T’ABBE’s ongoing collaboration with BC2M, the national nonprofit dedicated to ending mental health stigma through youth advocacy. This season, T’ABBE deliberately incorporated their partnership with selected work from a national contest where children submitted their own artwork around self-expression and mental wellness. The winning artwork was developed into a custom print and incorporated into the spring 2027 collection.
Images courtesy of Bahadir Gurel/fashiontrendsetter.com
T’ABBE is a New York-based womenswear brand founded in 2025. Rooted in an exploration of emotion and the ways our inner and outer worlds shape our experience, the brand considers not only how emotion can inform the way we dress, but how clothing can influence the way we feel. Through deliberate choice of volume, proportion, color, and print, T’ABBE explores how clothing can become a form of physical and emotional protection, offering comfort, confidence, or escape while giving outward expression to an internal experience.
Farah Akbar
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