Casablanca SS27: Summer Won’t Wait
A personal note on “Amor e Progresso,” Casablanca’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection.
Did the collection offer a subtle portrait of Brazil? Not really. It was direct, joyful, and sometimes deliberately obvious. I did not mind. The strength of the clothes, especially the tailoring and swimwear, gave the idea more substance than a simple holiday fantasy.
That contrast won me over almost immediately.
The colors came first: green, yellow, blue, hot pink, and orange. The references to Brazil were easy to recognize, and there was no need to decode them. Soccer shirts, tropical flowers, crochet, surfwear, silk, and fringe all appeared in the same collection. It was loud, but it felt right.
With so many references, the clothes could have disappeared under the theme. They didn’t. The cuts kept everything together.
The jackets were sharp without looking stiff. The pants had room to move. Shirts opened easily over swimwear, while fluid skirts softened the more structured pieces. I kept noticing how well the clothes sat on the body. Even when the color or print was doing a lot, the silhouette remained clear.
Then there were the bikinis. Those were the pieces that made me jump ahead to next summer. Perhaps it was the timing. We are entering fall, the light is changing, and suddenly Casablanca is showing bare skin, crochet, and bright flowers. It felt slightly out of season, which is exactly why it worked.
What stayed with me was the ease of it all. Casablanca did not make summer feel distant or idealized. It made it feel close enough to start planning for.
Text by A. Flint, Consultant at OVER
Photography by Stencer Saintelange.