Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection

“Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.”For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this painterly interplay. Spontaneous smears and streams of color form her famous abstractions, evoking a body in motion. It’s no wonder fashion found its way to her studio.The Swiss fashion A