OIZA, IYA SPRING SUMMER COLLECTION 2026

OIZA’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, IYA, reflects a new chapter for Olivia Ozi-Oiza Chance. A body of work shaped by her recent transition into motherhood, it marks a shift in rhythm and intention, where personal evolution is expressed through design. 

The collection draws on the Yoruba deity Oshun, an emblem of love, fertility and feminine power. Visual references taken from the annual Oshun-Osogbo Festival — held along the banks of the Osun River in Osogbo, Nigeria — inform the collection’s colour palette. Hues of brown, suggestive of the landscape, manifest in floral lace, fluid sheers, distressed leather and graphic jacquards.

Photographs captured during the celebrations serve as starting points for design and approach to construction. Prism-shaped bells rung by devotees are echoed in voluminous asymmetrical godets, seen in a deep brown sheer dress and floor-length silk skirt. While white dresses nod to the white attire worn by women honouring the goddess. 

Water, and its symbolic connection to Oshun, runs through the collection both visually and conceptually. Drawing on themes of fluidity and softness, Chance introduces a shift in the brand’s fabric vocabulary. Bringing in sheer georgettes and silk organzas across skirts and dresses offers a contrast to more structured silhouettes seen in previous seasons, but remains in keeping with the brand’s semi-naked dressing. 

Vintage indigo-dyed mudcloth is panelled into trousers, featuring fish and water motifs that reference traditional textile practices while introducing a more graphic edge. A mocha brown strapless lace dress, scattered with mismatched pearls, nods to the irregularity of water droplets — an off-centre take on embellishment that avoids polish in favour of texture and feeling.

Developed throughout Chance’s pregnancy, the collection leans into emotion as a driving force in its evolution, allowing feeling to lead form. “One way I could communicate what I was experiencing was through texture,” she says. The tassels act as a kind of emotional register: alive in motion, still but heavy when paused. For Chance, they became symbolic of the process: pregnancy, birth and the shift into motherhood which was chaotic, powerful, unpredictable and, ultimately, grounding. The continuous strands that form the tassels serve not only as a lifeline, but a quiet marker of endurance. Rather than opting for something clean or decorative, she chose yarns with weight and irregularity, those representing unruliness. 

A knitted cotton cable vest is decorated with loose yarns individually attached by hand, while the signature hand-stitch panel lace dress is updated with thick wool yarn that's been individually hand tied to the last row of lace scallop edge. Joining them, metres of long tassel trims have been fashioned into a floor length halterneck top. 

Offerings made to Oshun take the form of wearable gestures, so antique Nigerian brass rings and pendants are used to adorn the chest of a camp collar shirt and incorporated into a necklace and jumper. Meanwhile, Oshun's chosen colour of buttery yellow tones presents itself in a tailored cut-out dress, a fully draped dress and on the models honey-inspired eye and lip make-up. 

Having completed the British Fashion Council Low Carbon Programme earlier this year, Chance continues to make a conscious effort to create sustainable pieces as part of her collections. This season, deadstock is used to make shirts and trousers, vintage crochet coasters and table runners are reimagined into a mini dress, and certified cotton and linen yarns are chosen for the knitwear.

An original soundscape by international DJs Hale Zero threads through the presentation, inspired from field recordings taken during the Oshun-Osogbo Festival. The layered audio captures both the chaos and sacredness of the celebration. It sits in deliberate contrast to the setting: an intimate, all-white Georgian period room, where this season’s collection is staged with reverence.