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House of Nova · NYFW September 2026

Between Worlds

The next House of Nova show. A runway about transformation, liminality, and the moment of being between states.

Counting down to the runway · September 12, 2026

 

Dressing for the space between

Between Worlds continues the House's study of clothing as emotional architecture: garments made for the thresholds we move through, and the versions of ourselves we become on the other side.

It is the second chapter of a single argument. Woven Dreams, the House's New York Fashion Week debut, was about softness, protection, and memory: sculptural down outerwear cut with couture precision, built to hold a person rather than to display a print. Between Worlds asks what happens after being protected. Where the first show enclosed, this one opens.

Founder Nova Lorraine trained as a clinical psychologist before she trained as a designer, and the House's collections are shaped by that order of events. Silhouette, volume, and weight are treated as the emotional vocabulary of a garment. A coat that makes its wearer feel unhurried is doing structural work, not decorative work, and that is the standard every piece in the collection is cut to.

The collection reveals on the runway on September 12, 2026. Nothing from it is available to purchase before then.

The show at a glance

Show
Between Worlds
Date
September 12, 2026
Where
New York Fashion Week, New York City
House
House of Nova, founded by Nova Lorraine
Format
Runway show, invitation led
Themes
Transformation, liminality, emotional architecture
Availability
Not available to purchase, reveals on the runway
Previous show
Woven Dreams, the House's NYFW debut

Three ideas the collection keeps returning to

01

The threshold

The doorway rather than either room. Between Worlds takes the moment of crossing as its subject: the pause before a decision, the walk between one version of a life and the next. Garments cut for the in-between rather than for the arrival.

02

Emotional architecture

The founding idea of the House, carried forward. Clothing built the way a room is built, to hold a feeling and to change how it feels to stand inside it. Volume, weight, and enclosure do the work that print and embellishment do elsewhere.

03

Transformation

Woven Dreams was about softness, protection, and memory. Between Worlds asks what comes after being protected. The line runs from shelter to emergence, which is why the two shows read as chapters rather than as separate collections.

Selected inspiration

Black sculptural fashion silhouette against a bright blue sky
White sculptural fashion look against a pale editorial backdrop
Black fashion silhouette framed by cloud and light

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Watch the last one

The full Woven Dreams runway film and every still from the House's New York Fashion Week debut are on the Runway page, which is the closest thing to a preview of how Between Worlds will be staged.

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