By Parra SS26 Collection
Release Date: Spring 2026
Pieter Janssen does not chase the season — he sets it. The By Parra SS26 Collection arrives with the visual authority of an artist who has spent two decades building a world so internally consistent and so genuinely his own that each new release feels less like a collection drop and more like a dispatch from a place that only exists in his work. The birds, the figures, the tilted perspectives, the color relationships that should not work and absolutely do — SS26 finds Parra at the height of his powers, which is to say exactly where he has always been.
The collection moves through Parra's signature garment language — the tees, the shorts, the outerwear, the accessories that have always been the primary vehicle for his illustration work — in a palette that pulls the warm, slightly sun-faded tones of his visual world into the specific register of spring and summer without softening the edge that makes his work worth wearing in the first place. The SS26 graphics develop the iconography that Parra has been building since the early 2000s with the confidence of an artist who knows his characters well enough to put them in new situations and trust that they will behave exactly as expected — the birds more expressive, the figures more dynamic, the compositions more layered than the season's lighter fabrics might suggest they need to be. Every piece a wearable print. Every print a window into a world.
By Parra has always operated at the intersection of fine art and streetwear without belonging completely to either, and the SS26 Collection continues that refusal to be categorized with the cheerful stubbornness that has defined Parra's entire career. These are not art prints on t-shirts. They are not streetwear graphics borrowing from fine art. They are By Parra — a category of one, dropping another collection for the people who already know what that means and the new ones who are about to find out.