How Talia Abbe turned her grandmother's unmade raincoat into a spring/summer 2027 collection

Talia Abbe debuted T'Abbe's spring/summer 2027 collection during New York Fashion Week, marking a special moment for the brand founded in 2025. The starting point of the collection, aptly named "It Runs in the Family," was a sketch she found in a family archive: a raincoat her grandmother had designed and never made.

"I was going through old family photographs and archives, and I found my grandmother's sketch of a raincoat she had always wanted to make. That moment opened something up for me about inheritance and legacy, about how creativity and aesthetic instincts move between generations, sometimes without us even realizing it. So I kept going. I looked at the women in my family, their style, the way they move through the world with a kind of quiet creativity, and I let all of that move through the work. It isn't nostalgic. It's about taking something imagined by one generation and finding it a new life in another," Abbe told FashionUnited.

She interpreted the design through her own vocabulary. "She had been asking me for a while to make it for her, and I really wanted to find a way to do it and make it part of the collection. My grandma is such an inspiration to me, and I wanted to do this for her. So I took her coat and turned it into the T'Abbe version of what she had always wanted," Abbe said.

The collection sets fluid ready-to-wear and refined separates against exaggerated volumes, custom textiles and the inflatable latex elements that recur in Abbe's work. The palette runs to primrose pink, deep wine, lemon meringue and powder blue.

A second thread came from outside the family. T'Abbe's continuing collaboration with Bring Change to Mind, the mental health nonprofit co-founded by Glenn Close in 2010 and known for its peer-led high school clubs, ran a nationwide competition inviting students to make work about self-expression and mental wellness. The winning artwork was developed into a custom print for the collection.

Asked whether the trends surrounding dopamine dressing matches what she is doing, Abbe drew a distinction. "I think it does match, it just goes a little deeper for us. Those ideas aren't a trend we're following; they're what T'Abbe was built on from the beginning. The brand exists to destigmatize mental health, so the question I'm always asking is what clothing can do beyond its immediate function. Can it hold a memory, provide protection, create confidence, offer a little escape? You're not supposed to explain yourself in a T'Abbe piece. You're supposed to feel yourself in it. This collection is T'Abbe all grown up, more refined and more intentional but no less playful, and that question will never leave the work," she said.

T'Abbe launched in 2025, into a retail market that has been challenging for independent labels.

"This has always been my dream, and I had real momentum behind it, so the timing felt right. But this was also a clear-eyed decision about the market. In New York, we saw a genuine white space — a customer who wanted to wear joy every day and simply didn't have many places to find it. There was another white space, too: mental wellness. It's become a real societal shift. People are talking about it openly now, looking for brands that reflect that truth, yet very few designers are truly embracing it. For T'Abbe, this isn't a campaign or a seasonal moment. It's woven into our DNA. I want to use clothes to open up that conversation — to make it possible for someone to feel seen and supported through what they wear. A difficult retail environment actually clarifies everything. It forces you to be honest about why you exist. We've always known why we exist," she said.

On where the brand goes next, she is specific about wholesale and about moving beyond occasionwear. "I want T'Abbe with retailers around the world, and I want it to be part of people's everyday lives, not just their special occasions. This season was really about how the statement pieces and the everyday pieces can coexist, and I want people to fully embrace that. For it to happen, I need to keep growing my amazing team, with the people who helped me get this far at the core, and keep making clothes that are bold and warm and make people happy. Seeing everyone so happy at my presentation is something I want to keep building on," she said.