Industrial Intimacy - Submission Beauty x FANG NYC FW26

Submission Beauty partnered with FANG NYC for their FW26 show at New York Fashion Week - a collection that leaned into the brand’s gender-expansive DNA with clarity and control.Staged in downtown Manhattan, the show pulled from ’90s Berlin rave culture - sweaty late night references that surfaced through sculptural knitwear, utilitarian details, and a steady negotiation between softness and structure. Submission Beauty, led by founder and key makeup artist Zenia Jaeger, developed a look that echoed that balance. The look was about sharpness, softness, and the space in between. A club-memory translated into something clean: pressure, polish, pulse

PHOTOGRAPHY CHELSEA PALATUCCI @chelsea.foto
STYLING LIV VITALE @viavitale 
MAKEUP ZENIA JAEGER @makeupbyzeniajaeger @streetersagency for Submission Beauty @submission.beauty
HAIR MIKE MARTINEZ @__mikemartinez @kramerandkramer
NAILS EMILY CASTILLO @emcastnails
CASTING FISH @fishfiorucci @f10casting 
PRODUCTION BERLIN NICHOLAS @berlinnicholas 
PR ANDSUCH NYC @andsuch.nyc
MAKEUP ASSISTANTS BAMIKE OGUNRINU @bamikeogunrinu JOHANNA NOMIEY @johannanomiey KATIE MANN @trippychickmakeup REZA TABASSI @reza_tabassi NANASE ITO @nana7se SHOKO KODAMA @shoko_kodama_

FANG NYC’s FW26 show unfolded like a moment you stumble into and don’t want to leave. The space felt close, industrial, slightly raw - concrete walls, low light, flashes catching skin and hardware at unexpected angles. There was tension in the air, but it wasn’t loud. It hummed.

The collection deepened the brand’s ongoing exploration of gender expansiveness, drawing from ’90s Berlin rave culture and Christian Stemmler’s Anfang/Beginning series. You could feel that reference not as nostalgia, but as atmosphere - a sense of freedom shaped by structure. Sculptural knitwear sat against bare skin. Utilitarian details interrupted softness. Stripes appeared reworked and reframed, less graphic statement and more subtle rhythm. Silhouettes moved between fitted and fluid. The balance between masculinity and femininity wasn’t presented as contrast, but as coexistence - ease rather than argument.

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The beauty stayed in that same register. Skin was luminous and polished - a gloss that read as heat rather than just your usual highlight. Under flash, cheekbones and temples reflected softly, almost metallic, a glowing shine achieved by mixing our Submission Beauty Highlighter Deep and Lucid directly into moisturizer. Eyes were diffused with a dark shadow mixed with Dusted Glitter Silver, framed by a graphic black liner, hinting at the line work of the collection. Lips were left mostly natural with a hint of Balm Shiny, letting expression do the work.

What lingered after the final look was a quiet confidence and a sense of community threaded through the casting and the clothes. It felt underground, yes - but never insular. Elevated without being distant.

“Berlin - especially late nights there - was a second home for me for a long time. Glitter sends me right back to that moment and using it for this show was my nod to the clubkids, raving and all the sweaty nights on the dancefloor. In many ways, that’s where I found myself, in the dark, surrounded by people who were creating identity in real time. That’s where I began. Creating a runway version of that club kid energy and letting it evolve into something refined, but still honest, felt like coming home - a full circle moment.”

- Zenia Jaeger, key makeup artist and founder of Submission Beauty

For Submission Beauty, the collaboration felt aligned. Both brands operate in that same in-between space - where identity is fluid, craft matters, and responsibility isn’t separate from luxury.  The collaboration was less about making a statement and more about amplifying what was already there: tension, softness, strength. A shared belief that beauty can be sharp and fluid at once - and that responsibility doesn’t have to dim desire.

@FANG.NYC