Dressing the Unruly Heart: Wuthering Heights and Brontëcore Fashion De-Coded

The Brontë sisters wrote love as something wild, all-consuming; a force that unsettles neat-and-tidy lives rather than completing them. Wuthering Heights stands as the most feral expression of this philosophy, where love is not a destination but a state of emotional exposure, impossible to contain and destructive to ignore.

That unrest sits at the heart of the latest cinematic interpretation of the story, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, where costume, loosely historically inspired, becomes an extension of emotional volatility, translating internal turmoil into silhouettes that move as though the wearer cannot remain still.

The same sensibility surfaced across the Spring/Summer 2026 runways, where designers returned to feeling as a governing principle, allowing clothes to amplify emotion.

Below, we’ve pulled key looks from the film, alongside SS26 runway references and market fashion pieces, to translate this dark romantic language into something you can wear now.