At Paris Fashion Week, Trashy Clothing makes a defiant debut. With In Divine Trust, the Palestinian-rooted label turns satire, glamour, and resistance into a runway where fashion refuses to play it safe.
Photographer Ching-Fan Yang takes us backstage at Trashy Clothing, making their Paris Fashion Week debut with their Fall-Winter 2026 collection “In Divine Trust” staged at the Institut du Monde Arabe. Outspoken figures like Lebanese-American Mia Khalifa and Alana Hadid walked the show. Hadid is the older sister of Gigi and Bella and is known for her activism around her Palestinian heritage. Their presence at the show added another layer of meaning two high-profile women with Middle Eastern heritage supporting a young queer-friendly label whose ethos often intersects with politics, identity, and counter-culture.
Founded by designers Shukri Lawrence and Omar Braika, Trashy Clothing has built a reputation as an “anti-luxury luxury” label that uses satire, contradiction, and storytelling to challenge fashion’s traditional codes and rooted in Palestinian identity shaped by the designers’ experiences in the region and diaspora. They also introduced a collaboration with Mia Khalifa’s jewellery brand Sheytan, whose sword-inspired jewelry ran throughout the collection.
“Jewelry from Sheytan functions as structure and protection. Sword forms repeat across the body, joining as one.” Explained the designers in the show’s notes.
In a world where fashion is all about playing it safe for a commercial drive, the collection was a reminder that fashion can still be a space for contradiction, whether glamorous and political or playful yet pointed.
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