That's the feeling running through Absent Findings' Spring Summer 2027 collection, titled What's the Colour of My Voice? The Dubai-based label, helmed by Creative Director Shivin Singh, has never been especially loud about what it does. But SS27 feels like a turning point, a collection that leans harder into its own logic, and in doing so, arrives somewhere genuinely new.
The references are rich without being obvious. Leonora Carrington's surrealism lives here alongside the angular costume sensibility of Oskar Schlemmer, Victorian frill-work, and the buttoned-up clarity of prep uniforms. What Singh has done is take these threads, wildly different in origin, and ask what it means to show up, to dress with intent, when the world outside feels increasingly untethered. The answer is ruffles. And tailored trousers. And both at the same time.
Woven throughout the collection, quite literally, are heirloom saris. Used as trims, piping, frills, and accents, they're not deployed as heritage signifiers or nostalgic shorthand. They feel alive, softening the tailoring, adding intimacy to garments that might otherwise read as austere. They bring with them something that can't be designed in: the weight of things already worn, already loved.
What's the Colour of My Voice? is ultimately a collection about sincerity, about the idea that, in a world where things don't always make sense, making something well can still be its own kind of answer.
Images courtesy Absent Findings.
