Step inside Niamh Galea’s world of domestic bliss for Spring/Summer 2026
Words by Giulia Brugliera
An introduction to Una Casa, Una Casa.
Some people just have the type of creative mind you want to crack open, dig around, explore every nook and cranny, then slurp up everything within like some sort of magic elixir. Niamh Galea is one of those people.
Everything she does within her eponymous fashion label (formerly Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp) feels original, refreshing and joyful in a way that’s near-impossible to achieve in today’s mass-market landscape. She’s crafted a distinct design identity and continues to propel it forward with every creative step she takes, both through her apparel and beyond it.
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Even her label’s newsletter (typically a boring commercial exercise driven by necessity) is exciting. In it, she’s unabashedly original, sharing with subscribers ideation notes, creative references, handwritten memos and thought bubbles as they appear. It’s like she pulls ideas from thin air, never looking at the landscape around her to inform her next steps. Suffice to say, I’d be fully immersed in the world of Niamh Galea if I could.
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I was one step closer after the designer showcased her next collection, Una Casa, Una Casa, in an intimate runway presentation at Sydney’s China Heights last week. The range explores themes of domesticity and arrives in the wake of Niamh’s recent nuptials and 30th birthday, both of which had her reflecting on the traditional expectations on women at her stage of life.
It builds on some of Niamh’s iconic past designs (cropped hoodies, peek-a-boo cutouts and bloomers all feature), but it feels somewhat softer and, as she explains, more like her.
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Fashion Journal: Why did you decide to rebrand your label from Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp to Niamh Galea?
Niamh: It’s something I have been thinking about on and off for about a year now. The brand started somewhat accidentally and as much as I always have and always will love the name Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp (RTTS), as I’m growing up, the brand is growing up a little bit with me. Part of why I started the RTTS Instagram account was to have an anonymous place to share my creative work, and it definitely served this purpose, but I’m finally ready to fully own the brand (whose mission is to reject shame) and proudly put my name on it!
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Why did you want to debut this collection in a runway format?
The longer I am in this business, the more I feel there is nothing that compares to a runway, you are putting on a show! Photoshoots are wonderful but I do think in this day, when photos are shared so constantly, we start to become a bit numb to them. Also fashion shows allow you to collaborate with a huge number of creatives which is a wonderful feeling. I have to admit that nothing compares to the rush backstage, especially when I am used to working in a very small and intimate team.
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Tell me about your Spring/Summer 2026 collection. What feelings did you want to evoke? Have you experimented with new designs?
Spring/Summer for me was about a feeling of joy: swirling feelings of marital bliss, domestic fantasy (with the current real estate market, it’s definitely more daydream than reality), birthday parties (think Suddenly 30). It wasn’t planned, but the rebrand definitely fed into a slightly different mood for the collection overall. For years, I have been unintentionally designing for this Ramp Tramp kid; this felt a lot more “me” in some ways and closer to my own identity. There were a lot more dresses in this collection than in the past (I’m obsessed with dresses you can just throw on super lazily and look quite done up), as well as long-anticipated hosiery and accessories, like the Darling Bio Acetate Claw Cip.
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What was the casting process like?
The casting process was a joy. I worked with Chloé Corkran of Xnorkpowka whose work ethic and connections are unmatched. I felt she inherently understood the mood. We did our first ever open casting, which was so much fun and is really lovely as people self-identify. Chloé’s brief for the open casting was “beautiful people of all ages with spark, style and heart” and I certainly feel we found that. We did also do two additional casting sessions with signed models and I feel the balance we hit was perfect. We saw a lot of incredible models, but Chloé was amazing at keeping our focus on people who fit the world.
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How did the show come together? Who was involved and what was the vibe like from the crowd?
The show started out rather cheekily from me as a pitch for a “low-key intimate runway presentation”, which I took to Nina and Ed from China Heights; Chloé from Xnorkpowka; Lottie World, who wrote an original piece for the show and performed an overture to signal the show beginning; Carly Lim, who did beauty direction; and to Gina Yates and Nina Lee who co-directed the hair. Once I had these key players on board and a date set, it was a matter of making the collection with my incredible design assistant Mia Sutherland and my amazing interns.
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Ella Davidson, who manages Niamh Galea’s back of house, customer service and operations, did the producing along with Mia. I had invaluable feedback and support from industry luminary, Thea Basilou, and my dear friend, Emma Sargeant, who is leading sales at our upcoming Paris showroom in October.
Honestly, there are way too many people to name, but definitely, we wouldn’t have been able to make it all happen without Miette Spiess and Tyler Pace, who were assistant stylists and did all the shoe sourcing via Vinnies (who sponsored the shoes!) and via their personal collections. We had some late nights planning out the looks.
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Was there an afterparty?
After a few delicious post-show Bizzarro apertivo spritzes at China Heights (generously provided to our guests by Bizzarro), we of course had a fabulous informal afterparty at the Hollywood Hotel around the corner. I was startled when I entered the pub to raucous applause. It turns out the show was on the wettest September night in history, meaning we had the pub to ourselves. The first drink was graciously on the house and we ened up staying ’til we were kicked out at 1am!
How can people shop the collection?
I am taking the collection to Paris Fashion Week for a wholesale-only showroom in early October. However, as always, I will extend preorders to my customers at around this time via our ‘reverse sale’ model, under which customers get a discount for funding the collection’s production. Some of the Pre-Spring velour pieces are already available in our Sydney store, online and at stockists globally.
Start browsing pieces from Una Casa, Una Casa here.
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