Magda Butrym is lining up a pivotal New York season, and her Resort 2027 collection feels like the quiet dress rehearsal. Before she makes her runway debut on the official New York Fashion Week calendar and opens a permanent store in SoHo, the Polish designer is testing how her ultra-feminine language works as a real, everyday wardrobe.
“I wanted to just continue our story, keeping the ideas but doing them in a more wardrobe-ish way,” she said while finalizing the pre-collection, describing the mood as “pristine and undone with a strong sensual streak.” That tension between polish and disruption, between housecoat and cocktail dress, is exactly what gives Resort 2027 its charge.
Resort 2027 as the bridge to Magda’s New York era
Until now, Magda Butrym has been a cult favorite showing intimate presentations during Paris Fashion Week. This September she is slated to step onto a full runway in New York, a shift that usually comes with bigger casting, more front-row scrutiny, and clearer storytelling for the American market. At the same time, a permanent SoHo boutique will translate that world into a physical space for U.S. clients.
Resort 2027 has to carry all of that weight. It reads as a condensed handbook of Butrym codes: strong leather pieces, wasp-waisted tailoring, and lingerie-inflected dresses that still feel like clothes, not costumes. A best-selling leather blouson reappears as an easy wrap in heathered gray wool, signaling how the brand is easing its signatures into day. The collection runs from workhorse outerwear to office-ready separates and fluid silk slips, giving buyers and stylists a clear sense of how the runway vision can live in a New York closet.
Domestic chic meets Slavic cinema
The references behind Magda Butrym Resort 2027 are characteristically left-of-center. The designer once again looks to Slavic cinema, this time Andrzej Zulawski’s 1996 film Szamanka, not for literal costumes but for a woman who is raw, instinctive, and never fully contained. That emotional register gets translated into clothes that are immaculate on the hanger yet slightly disturbed in styling, with slips peeking out and coats cinched to almost unsettling degrees.
Equally important is a quieter, “domestic chic” thread. Butrym reimagines the humble housedress her grandmother wore in the 1960s as a button-front shirtdress in sepia cotton with a white floral print, tied at the sides and layered over a lace-trimmed slip. It looks like something you might throw on in the kitchen, but the styling turns it into a new kind of cocktail look. Hand-crochet, another brand signature, is pushed bigger and bolder: instead of dainty kerchiefs, there is a knee-length skirt and a pretty capelet designed to work as easily over a T-shirt and jeans as over an evening gown.
Hourglass glamour, hero looks and the faces wearing them
Silhouette-wise, Magda Butrym doubles down on the hourglass. Coats and sculptural knitwear come with strong shoulders and sharply nipped waists, often trimmed with pearls or a sly touch of faux mink. One standout is a black wool peplum jacket with razor-sharp shoulders, cinched torso, and a removable panel of chestnut-colored faux fur. Elsewhere, a gold lamé cocktail suit literally catches the light like an award statue, while a short jacket in bubblegum pink jacquard and a series of molded bustier dresses dial up an unapologetically ’80s glamour.
The imagery pushes the “vamp” side of the story, but it is built to sell. The Resort 2027 lookbook was shot by Mark Kean, styled by Jacob K, with casting by Julia Lange and beauty by Lucy Bridge and Tom Wright. Models Apolline Rocco Fohrer and Alaina Rae embody Butrym’s current woman: poised rather than performative, sensual without theatrics, often framed in interiors that make a slip dress or crochet capelet feel as plausible at home as at a party. For models, it is the kind of high-impact, cinematic lookbook that sits between campaign and editorial, and for clients it is an early preview of what will land on racks as resort deliveries start rolling into retailers from late fall into early 2027.
