BUZIGAHILL‘s Fall/Winter 2026 collection, Return to Sender 12, is a direct look at memory and reclamation. The starting point is a specific feeling: the nostalgia felt by many millennial East Africans when looking at old photos of their grandparents from the 1960s and 70s.

The question is not about authentic local fashion. The clothes in those photos often had western shapes, like wide collars and bell-bottoms. The cars were European imports. But the feeling in the images is different. It is one of freedom and promise, a stance of ownership and advancement from the early post-independence years in Uganda and Kenya.

The collection makes a clear link between that era and the present. It looks east to Kenya, where containers of second-hand clothes from the Global North arrive at the port of Mombasa. It focuses on contemporary style rebels, like boda boda motorcycle riders. These riders take these imported clothes and alter them. They personalize and localize the garments through pragmatic changes, making them their own.

Return to Sender 12 operates in this space. It revisits the optimistic silhouette of the past not to copy it, but to connect it to a current act of reinvention.

Check out below the collection presented at INTERVENTION V during Berlin Fashion Week: