SPRING SUMMER 2026 COLLECTION

As one travels across the plateau, from high grassland to forested valley, houses rise from what is at hand: timber where pine and juniper grow thick, earth walls where the soil is soft and yellow, and tall stone structures where cliffs of granite stand close by.

These walls are made to protect. They begin as a foundation and are strengthened gradually, patched or re-layered with whatever the season and landscape have taken away.

Some walls stay earthen, renewed whenever cracks appear. Others, mainly in monasteries and monk’s quarters, are whitewashed once a year in a collective act of preparation. Before Lhabab Düchen, the day the gods are believed to descend to earth, lime is mixed, carried, and thrown against the walls. In Lhasa, hundreds gather to help the monks whitewash the Potala Palace. Milk is poured into the mixture as a gesture of purity. Across the plateau the same ritual unfolds, not with brushes but with splashes, allowing the fresh white to run down over older layers.

The marks of time remain visible, never erasing what came before.

Norlha’s Spring Summer collection follows this same principle – of building through layers rather than replacing them. Each season rests on years of accumulated design: materials understood through long use, techniques refined slowly, textures developing from earlier explorations. What appears new is an evolution, a line extended, a weave adjusted, a detail added, where depth grows from continuity. 

For Spring Summer, this continuity is expressed through texture, drawing inspiration from the splatter and fall of whitewash on Tibetan walls. Uneven lines, wavering weaves, and surfaces that feel alive, echoing the way mud walls are patched and renewed over time, the cracks filled yet still visible as part of their history and passage.

Silk and yak khullu are thoughtfully woven, inter layered to offer strength and light protection for the warmer months. Subtle shades of brown, deep and muted reds, darker blues and warm greys, whites and ochres are intermixed with brighter hues of orange, cobalt and burnished golds.