La Fetiche’s Autumn Winter 26 through Scottish theatre’s brightest eye
Photographer Alex James Aylin captures the label's boldly patterned knitwear and tartan tailoring on actress Gayle Rankin, caught between performances of 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' within Charles Rennie Mackintosh's singular architectural vision.
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A tartan waistcoat in burnt orange and forest green sits over a charcoal leather jacket, the two working in concert against pale geometric walls. La Fetiche’s autumn winter collection emerges through the lens of photographer Alex James Aylin, its colour and patterning caught at Queens Cross Church in Glasgow, where the Scottish actress Gayle Rankin moved between scenes during the National Theatre Scotland production of ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’.
The building itself becomes more than backdrop. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Queens Cross Church as his only ecclesiastical commission, its interior a study in purposeful restraint: clean lines, slender wooden columns, and apertures that frame light like deliberate gestures. Within this architecture of clarity, the collection’s textures read differently. A multicoloured geometric knit in cream, coral and chartreuse gains presence against Mackintosh’s austere framework. A crisp white shirt sits beneath the pattern, unadorned, letting the layers of La Fetiche’s vision speak without competing noise.
The curation feels precise. Makeup artist M.V. Brown has drawn the eye toward the face with a careful hand, the styling restrained enough to allow the clothes their moment. The collection speaks of Scottish heritage reinterpreted, of tartan and patterning that nod to tradition without genuflecting to it. Each garment carries the weight of considered detail: the cut of a jacket, the tension between structured form and tactile wool, the way colour sits against skin and light.
That La Fetiche chose to photograph between Rankin’s theatre performances speaks to something quietly confident about the brand’s vision. The actress moving through Mackintosh’s spaces, inhabiting character and collection simultaneously, suggests a kind of cultural conversation. These are clothes for minds alert to reference, to craftsmanship, to the particular knowledge that good design speaks in more than one register.
Imagery courtesy of La Fetiche (@studio_lafetiche).
