Simone Rocha x Adidas Debut at LFW: 60-Look Mixes Sneakers and Ruffles

Simone Rocha’s Fall 2026 runway at London Fashion Week arrived like a love letter to contradiction: 60 looks that threaded pearl-zippered track jackets through corsetry and ruffles, and even bore Simone Rocha x Adidas Originals logos in a reveal Marie Claire called “an official collaboration announcement, set to launch this fall.” The show, presented Feb. 22, felt simultaneously sporty and haunted, equal parts blokecore and heirloom dressing.

The sporty romance was literal. Track jackets zipped with dangling pearl closures and sporty socks were bedazzled with trefoil logos; slim sneakers appeared laced with red-and-white ribbons in place of standard laces. Those details read like Rocha’s playbook updated for athletics: “Lace boiler suits, frills on your tracksuit,” as ELLE put it, and the collection leaned into the designer’s signature of bows, cascading pearls and corsetry alongside tailored coats with corsages and equestrian-style prize ribbons pinned to trousers.

Rocha anchored those surprises in a deep moodboard. The Cut traced the show’s lineage to teenage rebellion and Irish myth, noting paintings by Jack B. Yeates and Elizabeth Yeates and the Pony Kids photographs from Rocha’s Dublin childhood. The Cut summarized the dressing as having “a lot of equestrian hand-me-downs, but then, for example, they’re paired with sportswear, or paired with outerwear, or paired with underpinnings, like long johns,” and described the palette as “Earth-driven and peach-driven and turf-driven” when it wasn’t veering into peat green gowns and heavily decorated red statements.

But the runway also plunged into a darker, more literal nostalgia. Runwaymagazines wrote that Rocha “plunged into black” this season and made The Tortoise and the Hare into runway props: fake-fur hares draped like century-old stoles and resin tortoise clutches tucked into models’ hands. “This season, Rocha drew inspiration from The Tortoise and the Hare, taking the childhood fable to unsettlingly literal heights,” Runwaymagazines reported, adding that “it’s the hares that haunt the collection” and that jackets and skirts in tinsel-threaded bouclé tweed were “slashed and shredded, hinting at both decay and reinvention.”

Textiles shifted between rich tapestry prints and slashed bouclé; one standout tableau featured strips of pink silk jacquard loosely tethered with pink ribbon, draping over faux fur bloomers. Rocha’s show notes, as ELLE relayed, said she was moved by clothes “loved and lived [in],” a through-line that made even the sporty pieces feel vintage-turned-ceremony.

On the business side, the runway carried an immediate industry beat: the Simone Rocha x Adidas Originals mark stamped or embroidered into several garments and sneakers. Marie Claire noted that “neither brand has responded to Marie Claire’s request for comment” as of the show, but insiders were already “sent into a spiral” by the surprise. Whether you read the collection as blokecore, folk myth, or spectral nostalgia, Rocha’s Fall 2026 statement is clear: romance now comes with a trefoil, a pearl zipper, and a ribbon you can actually tie.