If you ask Tanya Taylor how she road trips, she’d tell you she travels light.

Or, at least, that’s what her pre-fall 2026 collection would indicate. Drawing inspiration from a California road trip the designer took with her husband, the mood was “very unhurried, like it felt you had time for things to feel a bit more leisurely, and the styling made sense that way — slouchy twill pants and little camisoles and daisy embroideries,” she said.

Aiming for colors a bit more muted than for spring, avocados and marigolds were a through-line, as well as a redwood hue. “It’s not too bold,” Taylor said. “I’ve been excited about seam lines giving a lot of shape to a body, rather than adding volume, and keeping necklines really clean. It’s nice to just not make things really fussy.”

Taylor rounded out the collections with a few different finishings — an embroidery here, handkerchief hemline there, twisted straps on dresses. From a fabric perspective, there was a hint of the next fall collection, largely in denim. “We’re going to do so much of it in the fall, so I felt we needed hints of it in seasonal ways,” she said in a nod to a denim minidress.

Her clientele is responding well to her ethos. “Our business is doing phenomenally well,” she said, noting that a Greenwich, Conn., store that opened in September is seeing a lot of traction. “We have people buying 14 units in their first visit to the store, which we were shocked by. But they are looking for these versatile, wardrobe mix-and-match styles.” Black Friday sales were double the volume of last year’s, she said. “It’s so easy to find novelty in our brand, and now, we’re trying to add in these easier pieces. And everything is selling.”