Start 2026 in a Fabulous, Fantastic and Fashionable Way
The show season has started; Couture, Pre-Fall and slowly Autumn Winter 2026 are ready to be consumed and, of course, adored. Want to know what’s going on to be fabulously fashionable this spring and uncover the inspiration behind the renowned collections? Find out here, the insider details and the catwalks captured in New York, London, Paris, and Milan within Start 2026 in a Fabulous, Fantastic and Fashionable Way.
Undercover Pre-Fall 26 Menswear
Undercover 26 Pre-Fall Men’s collection focuses on contemporary interpretations of classical items, forming a wardrobe that blends refined sophistication with the brand’s signature twist. The collection appears minimalist and subdued at first glance, but each piece reveals carefully considered details.
Blumarine Pre-Fall 26
For the Blumarine Pre-Fall 2026 Collection, Creative Director David Koma mirrors his evolving study of dark romanticism in nocturnal Venice and the photographic history of the House. With nods to Blumarine’s collaborations with Helmut Newton – as well as its Fall-Winter 1992 campaign shot by Albert Watson in Venice – the proposal makes the City of Masks its cinematic muse. In an erotic exploration of the hedonism historically linked to Venetian nights, the dualistic Blumarine woman is absorbed by the eccentric and extravagant spirit of Venice and its ornamental opulence.
PORTS 1961 Pre-Fall 2026
The Ports 1961 Pre-Fall 2026 collection, Soul Aviator, embodies a woman in motion whose wardrobe carries strength, ease, and precise elegance. Inspired by the functional gear of 1940s female aviators and Lucio Fontana’s spatial cuts, the collection translates these ideas into sharp tailoring where slits, knots, and openings reveal movement through precise construction.
Hed Mayner AW26
Pleated Ultrasuede smocks and plump fake fur coats. Finehoundstooth straight skirts and luminous padded jackets. Shinymetallic leggings and crumpled flannel crew necks. Crushedvelvet dresses. Roomy denim jeans. Modular leather bags that are their own mixed-up kind ofthing: a folder, a pill box, a glasses case. A boot from Reebok’sarchive – NPC Insigna -has been heat-washed, leaving behind a warped, stretched and elongated gesture.
JW Anderson AW26
A collection rooted in process, people and craft, built following the principle of curation, which is Jonathan Anderson’s main creative tool. The idea is to weave together things – and people – I like,e and I would like to have around me. An instinctual selection based on a personal path and a genuine interest in the art of making, and the individuals who practice it, in any field, from pottery to acting to writing. This new JW Anderson endeavour is introduced through the second iteration of the seasonal lookbook. It features Jonathan Anderson’s close-knit circle of friends, long-term collaborators and acquaintances and presents a selection of ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories, and objects.
Brunello Cucinelli AW26
Brunello Cucinelli brings men closer to nature in its Autumn Winter 2026 Menswear Collection. The harmony and dialogue between these two worlds shape the figure of the contemporary explorer, where functionality and dynamism converge with new expressions of sartorial elegance.
Salvatore Santoro FW26/27
The collection is born from an invisible dialogue between memory and matter, from a silent confrontation between roots and contemporaneity. Time does not flow; it stratifies, it imprints itself like an echo on the skin of things, in the angles of hands, in the memory of objects. Invisible roots intertwine with the present, and every gesture becomes language.
Etro FW 26
Mankind has evolved through the ages and centuries, but its true and profound nature, its primordial and essential spirit, remains animal. Even faces and physiognomy are: facial features lend themselves to infinite animal associations, based on ways of being, character, and personality. For Etro, this perspective on the human condition is part of a highly personal iconography, codified in a memorable 1997 photographic campaign, and has since become a defining feature of the brand.
Undercover Pre-Fall 26 Womenswear
For the Pre-Fall 2026 Women’s Collection, Undercover explores a design approach that stays true to the brand’s distinctive identity while integrating seamlessly into everyday life. Centred on Undercover’s signature techniques of docking and mix-and-match, the collection unfolds through a wide range of variations, achieved via differing levels of construction and layering.
Saul Nash AW26
This season, the British-Caribbean designer delved into the art of masquerade, kick-started after attending Notting Hill Carnival in the summer, where vibrant costumes find their origins in mimicry ceremonies. This thread of performance, concealment and self-expression would lead Nash to explore the Venetian masquerade, where masks were worn to both transform and disguise the wearer.
Qasimi AW26
For creative director Hoor Al-Qasimi, the very garments we wear are a vessel for holding onto memories. Using the core design elements of QASIMI, clothes are layered, deconstructed and mended, referencing the way in which the past is stitched together to form our personal remembrance. The collection, as in previous QASIMI seasons, looks to a hybrid sensibility for its formation, wherein it sits at an intersection of casualwear and tailoring. This reflects the very essence of mismatched memories.
Wales Bonner AW 26
The Wales Bonner Autumn Winter 2026 collection draws from the elemental simplicity and pursuit of harmony in modernist architectural traditions. From early design ideals of purity to the bold vision of figures like Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, the collection presents a wardrobe between the practical and the sensual.
Thom Browne Fall 2026
The fall 2026 collection is grounded in order, ritual and the beauty of coastal dreamscapes. Thread by thread, imagery repeats, replaying like an incantation, just like a prayer… craftsmanship honed over time is precise and rule-bound. Heritage tweeds follow a grid pattern. Pinstripe tailoring is theeven, symmetrical result of classic construction. cricket sweaters, cable knits and cashmere argyles render traditionalmotifs.
Sagaboi FW 26
Fall Winter 2026 continues the house’s exploration of Caribbean authorship, discipline, and presence, examining how uniform, ceremony, and structure have been absorbed and transformed into a language of authority through lived culture, labour, and ritual.
David Koma Pre Fall 26
Yasmin Wijnaldum stars in the lookbook, and the collection will be available to purchase in line with the theatrical and IMAX® release of DC Studios’ highly anticipated new film “Supergirl” in June 2026. A rare crossover of fashion, film and the DC universe.
Nicholas Oakwell SS26 Couture
Nicholas Oakwell Couture returns to Paris Couture Week with Goddess, a Spring/Summer 2026 collection that reimagines the ancient worlds of Greece, Rome, and Egypt through the lens of mid-century Hollywood glamour. Drawing inspiration from the golden age of cinematic epics, the collection evokes antiquity as seen on screen, opulent, romantic, and unapologetically grand.
GmbH FW 26
For the fourth GmbH show in Berlin, our home, we started out wanting to create a collection that echoes some of our beginnings as a brand closely connected to music and club culture. This led us to find inspiration in the experimental music scene in Berlin (and Germany) in the early 1980s – a Berlin before our time – and in particular the industrial and synth music of DAF and Einstürzende Neubauten and its iconic front figure, Blixa Bargeld. While the values of the Berlin we know are quickly being destroyed into oblivion by greed and repression.
Kenneth Ize FW 26
At the heart of the collection is collaboration. Through countless exchanges with James Tennessee Braindt, Rodney Patterson, KK Obi, Giovanni Mareschi, Ceecee, Affa Osman, Michael Musa, Jd Ankomah, Reference Studios, friends, and family alike, I absorbed their dialogues and wove them into textiles. The clothes become a language woven from experience, movement, and meaning.
PLN-GNS AW26
The collection rejects traditional gender divisions, instead working with two fit systems, feminine and masculine, resulting in an equal balance of 15 looks each. Styling by Gianni. Sharpened silhouettes to heighten tension and provocation, while open casting brings together professional models and non-models across genders and appearances.
Buzigahill AW26
Return to Sender 12 revisits the promise of the 60s and 70s in East Africa. The ownership. We cross the border eastwards to Kenya, where containers of second-hand clothes headed for Uganda are offloaded at the port of Mombasa. The collection creates links between our grandparents and contemporary fashion rebels such as boda boda riders, who, through highly individualistic and pragmatic alterations, reinvent second-hand clothes imported from the Global North, radically localising them to make them their own.
The Autumn/Winter 2026 collection reflects designer Arashi Yanagawa’s background as a former professional boxer, where intensity meets rigour. Stripped of excessive embellishments, the collection maintains a deliberate distance from others, from society, embodying both defiance and self-defence. These defence mechanisms are overlaid with the ascetic attitude found in Scandinavian black metal and other dark metal subcultures: an ethos rooted between restraint and confrontation, resulting in a collection that seeks to reveal those internal battles.
Dagger AW26
Each look is rooted in personal memory, reflecting resilience, freedom, and creativity shaped through scarcity. Play Hard is not about perfection, but about rough edges, fragility, and the strength found in community. The collection is supported by brands that have been part of my life then and now. Eastpak references a deeply personal object: the Pack’r backpack that carried my entire world, covered in drawings and patches sewn on by my grandmother, recreated as a symbol of youth, survival, and belonging.
Gaurav Gupta Spring Summer Couture
Conceived as a meditation on unity and transformation, the collection moves between consciousness and energy, structure and movement, offering a deeply personal exploration of balance through couture.
Nanushka Pre-Fall 26
Nanushka’s Pre-Fall 2026 collection, titled Sacred Utility, explores garments as tools for spiritual living: essential, expressive and intuitive. Through the lens of protection and resilience, the collection imagines the future of dressing as a balance between hardness and softness, vulnerability and strength. Delicate fabrics are reinforced with utilitarian details, while functional silhouettes are reinterpreted in unexpected materials.
Saint Laurent Men’s Winter 26
He sketches out a lean, sinuous silhouette, simultaneously fragile and strong. Soft, crumpled textures show the passage of time; what we’ve worn, what we’ve loved—sharp shoulders cloak vulnerability, without denying it. The frame of the wearer’s clothing is highlighted by the manner with which it is revealed and concealed, eroticised without ever being exhibitionist. The house’s signature smoking takes on an almost armour-like strength, vanquishing uncertainty and the unknown.
Camiel Fortgens AW26
Camiel Fortgens unveils the Autumn-Winter 2026 collection during Paris Fashion Week, presented on the official FHCM calendar. The collection was revealed in an intimate Parisian apartment, providing a unique and personal setting for observation. Camiel Fortgens AW26 looked at furniture and functional objects for inspiration and transformed them into wearable forms, continuing the brand’s long-standing fascination with functional objects, and signs of use – drawing inspiration from navigating between daily urban life and rugged terrain.
Wooyoungmi AW26
For Fall-Winter 2026, Wooyoungmi’s studies of elegance take on the cold of winter in an exchange between historical elegance and contemporary dress codes. Inspired by winter travellers across eras and geographies – from the steam train to the metro, through mountains and cities -the collection embraces the elegance of the warm wardrobe and the drama demanded by snowfall. Suspended between the Edwardian era and the 196os and ’70s, dandy-esque tailoring cut in lush velvet or heritage cloths frames the physique in strict yet soft structures.
I must get off. I knew. But my body won’t rise from the seat. And, the anxiety and loneliness filled my heart just moments agostayed but it was still like water in a tank . Not growing more. I was unable to get off this train . Where it was headed.Where the destination was. They were not my concern anymore. The train started moving again. To its next stop. Continue moving forward in this unseen place. That was now my only hope.
Willy Chavarria AW26
Willy Chavarria designs with emotion. Presenting his Autumn/Winter 2026 collection through a cinematic blend of music, theatre, and film that allows the viewer to experience the looks in movement. The show moves from sharp tailoring to sportswear and streetwear, into cocktail looks, and culminates in red-carpet drama. Key pieces include cropped suits with loose hips, sateen full skirts, layered knits, and the “sandwich gown,” combining a cloqué hourglass front with a trailing champagne silk back.
Maglino AW26
These swirling turbulences of breath are translated into a dreamy concert, which frames the FW26 collection. After all, clothes hold little allure without the density of the air that surrounds them. The sound is unplugged, analogue, stripped of words, yet recorded at some level of the soul, attempting to articulate something intimate yet capable of collective resonance.
Patou AW26
The Patou Fall Winter 2026 collection is a dialogue between individuality and collective harmony. Each silhouette is conceived as an independent expression, while the collection functions as a chorus: diverse, layered, and unified. There is no hierarchy and no temporal distinction between day and evening; the wardrobe is fluid, urban, and continuous. The show unfolds as a celebratory procession.
Doublet AW26
Doublet’s Autumn/Winter 2026 collection began by confronting this “invisible air.”Yarns born from CO, captured from the atmosphere. Bio-based resins created by microorganisms that “eat” greenhouse gases. Inks made from carbon derived from exhaust gases. We encountered materials born from the very “air” we usually take for granted.
Charles Jeffrey Loverboy stages its Autumn/Winter 2026collection as a live happening at Dover Street Market Paris. With performances by Baby’s Berserk, A small cast of four models, friends and new friends move through the space wearing LOVERBOY in its full state of madness and defiance. Around them, metres of hand-painted fabric, painted by Charles himself,envelop the room, transforming it into a pagan-punk environment. The space is immersive and communal, designed to be felt rather than observed.
Jacquemus AW26
Designed in materials and colours that establish themselves as codes, collection after collection, the garments emphasise skills that are continually associated with a lighthearted spirit of identity. For the women’s line, there are mid-length taffeta suits and outfits sculpted by feather embroideries, while silk jersey cocktail dresses dramatise the evening. Each outfit is accented by geometric ornaments such as feather or velvet tassels, while naïve art inspires motifs, kinetic feather embroideries and handcrafted accessories.
Y-3 FW 26
Balancing the adrenaline of asphalt with the spirit of the street, the Fall Winter 2026 collection united past, present, and future through expressive silhouettes, custom prints, and reimagined footwear. From the return of denim and skate-inflected references to adaptive tailoring and new sneaker debuts, Y3 once again pushed toward a new threshold where stillness becomes velocity.
Amiri AW26
The heart of Amiri – our reality, our heart, our home. The Autumn-Winter 2026 men’s and women’s collection draws its inspiration from the authentic identity of Amiri: Los Angeles and California as enduring points of reference, and a root in music, where Mike Amiri’s fashion career began. An eternal passion, a constant influence, here Los Angeles music culture is translated into a modern American luxury.
CFCL FW26
For Fall/Winter 2026, CFCL VOL.12 mens explores the balance between garments one can fully relax into and the sense of dignity expected of mature, contemporary workwear. Softly draped knit structures envelop the body, while materials with depth and texture evoke the richness of natural fibres. A muted colour palette lends quiet nuance to the collection.
424 AW26
The 424 AW26 collection prioritise labor, time, and process over industrial efficiency. New techniques and materials emerge through the reworking of reclaimed luxury textiles, released only in the naturally limited quantities in which they exist. Fur is integrated with denim through experimental construction methods, while half-century-old military blankets are upcycled into tailored forms.
Acne Studios Menswear FW26
The Fall–Winter 2026 collection considers how a younger generation studies, absorbs and reinterprets menswear codes. Fascination and aspiration converge in looks that mix traditional tailoring with vintage-inspired pieces.
Huishan Zhang Pre-Fall 26
For Pre-Fall 2026, Huishan Zhang reflects on the emotional resonance of travel and its quiet transformations, its pull toward introspection, and its promise of rediscovery. Inspired by the cinematic editorial imagery of Talitha Getty in Marrakesh and the reflective intimacy of Yves Saint Laurent’s Moroccan refuge, the collection becomes a study in distance: the space between where we stand and where we long to drift.
Colour, precision, craft, proximity to art. An edge sharpened by the city. These codes remain, but the perspective shifts, and we get closer to a new Proenza Schouler woman – a woman shaped by thought, intuition, contradiction. To the unknowing eye, she is put together, precise, deathly punctual. Those who recognise her sense that there is more to her: The Proenza Schouler woman for Fall 2026 rejects perfection as constraint. She is composed, yet mysterious and cinematic. She is a disciplined but capricious human.
Tory Burch A/W26
“A meditation on what endures, especially in times of chaos and despair. Classics shaped by history and utility, made personal through our own stories and experiences, where true style originates. We honoured what makes archetypes last while exploring technique and proportion. Cardigans gilded in badla embroidery, hand-done by Indian artisans; plush corduroys inspired by my father’s in apricot and saffron; Shetland wool sweaters brushed and washed to airy softness; drop-waist dresses undone at the seams. Sharp tailoring and sportswear thrown by leather-wrapped shell earrings, sardine pins and handwoven leather and raffia bags.
Collina Strada FW26
We wrap ourselves in translucent layers, and organza collars rise at the neck in protection. We start to fade from the mirror, because we don’t reflect this brutal world; we’re only seen on our own terms. The world is trying to turn us, but we’re hanging on to humanity, even as our fangs sharpen with disillusionment. Despite all our rage, we are still just bats in a cage, but at least our fur is plant-based, and our cage is Collina.
MM6 Maison Margiela AW 26
Eyes shielded behind MM6 Maison Margiela’s trademark concealing sunglasses – now, and newly, in a rainbow of hues – the types seen on the makeshift runway depict a veritable spectrum of individuality, their wardrobes exploring archetypal MM6 Maison Margiela tropes such as reduction, heightened normality, straightforwardness, sartorial actions rooted in the genuine appreciation for garment as they are, looking for ways to see them anew, which is where the fun lingers.
FENDI FW 26
Less I, more us. The motto for Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first FENDI collection, a declaration of intent to reaffirm the value of working together, of shared intentions and desires, of understanding and accepting others, of the world around us
PORTS 1961 Fall 2026
This collection centres around the traveller, marking the house’s 65th anniversary with a complete wardrobe for the woman who moves easily between cities, climates, and roles. Building on the house’s refined design codes and its credo, ‘I dream of breakfast in the Sahara and dinner in New York’ the collection dresses a modern traveller who favours clarity, function, and quiet refinement over spectacle.
Mantù FW 26
The Mantù FW26 collection unfolds as a study in balance between structure and fluidity, where material becomes language and surfaces are imbued with meaning. The femininity that emerges is self-aware and measured: a quiet yet incisive presence, defined through details, textures, and color. Fabric research lies at the very heart of the collection. Three-dimensional tweed shapes coats and tailored silhouettes with a sense of contemporary solidity, while fluid viscose introduces movement and lightness, naturally following the body.
Jared Zhang FW 26
The collection explores the tension between containment and overflow, between the architecture of productivity and the unpredictability of living matter. Tailored forms meet irregular growth. Structured silhouettes are interrupted, wrapped, or pierced by soft yet persistent volumes. Textures suggest surfaces in transition: synthetic meeting botanical, polished meeting porous.
Jil Sander FW 26
The collection, in a homely palette of faded neutrals mixed with blacks, blues, grays, is about flow, movement, and the dialogue, at times the contradiction, between body and dress, which has agency of its own, like it wants to escape: shoulder lines that raise, pockets that run away, collars that slip to the back or fly, fabric allowances that grow, swing and bend. Everything revolves around physicality: an energy released by curvaceous cuts, by the vertical swagger of rational tailoring buttoned high, by slashes that reveal the legs. Slashes are on the back, too: very high slits on coats and blazers, and folds held in place with bar tacks. Upholstery fabrics are fluidified, or molded into hourglass shapes. Dresses like clouds of fabric have a sculptural softness.
Brunello Cucinelli AW 26
This new collection is a story. Like a book, it gives us a tale, offering a mood, a perspective, woven from sensations, images, and places.
Uniqueness, tailoring, craftsmanship. Respect for the wisdom of tradition, creative innovation, and the centrality of natural fibres are the collection’s essential values. Every element reveals a character that is at once delicate and confident, seductive yet understated. Always refined, never excessive, the workmanship shapes a country couture aesthetic.
“Love me, love me, love me, say you do
Let me fly away with you
For my love is like the wind
And wild is the wind”
Nina Simone’s voice, imbued with a poignant sensuality, echoes in the distance, while a motorbike stands out on a highway tinted by the lights of a sunset on fire. Behind the helmet, the biker with 80s vibes, with gunmetal-coloured zip logos and straight-cut leather trousers, hides the woman imagined by BLAZÉ Milano for the 2026 winter season. She pushes down on the accelerators not so much to escape but rather race towards her destiny, as Marianne Faithfull did in the Girl on a Motorcycle, the 1968 feature film in which she was looking for a lost lover.
The Blumarine Fall-Winter 2026 Collection paints a portrait of the mythological diva and her many facets through the lens of its own history. Expanding on his ongoing studies of the photographic legacy of the House – with particular reference to its collaborations with Helmut Newton – David Koma revisits Venice in an elaborate exploration of the city’s cinematic and sumptuous spirit. Staging a meeting between its baroque opulence and his own sculptural modernism and ornamentation, the Creative Director mirrors the city in the diva herself. The fusion cuts a proposal of voluminous and vivacious silhouettes rendered in a darkly theatrical palette of red, black, white, silver and gold.
For Fall/Winter 2026–27, Fausto Puglisi chooses black. A declaration. A radical gesture. An act of awareness. Unexpected for those who associate the Cavalli DNA with explosive color and fearless prints, black marks a return to one of the House’s less predictable dimensions: a dark tension that has always pulsed beneath the
surface, now rising with renewed force. Not a denial. A revelation.
The Jardin des Tuileries provided both the inspiration and setting for the Autumn Winter 2026-2027 show. Originally commissioned by Catherine de’ Medici and later redesigned under Louis XIV, the garden has long been a space in which social codes and public display are foregrounded. When it opened to visitors in 1667, a strict dress code required attire appropriate to one’s rank – an early reminder that the Tuileries has always been a stage for seeing and being seen.
The Winter 2026 Stella woman embodies dichotomy: masculine and feminine, playful and precise. Her wardrobe reflects pivotal moments in Stella’s design history – vegan fur alternatives, vintage lace, Savile Row tailoring and 80s sportswear – crafted from 93% sustainable materials.
This season has been a reflection on humanity, empathy and devotion — on how clothing can both hold emotion, and carry memory. In a world that often feels mechanized and accelerated, I felt drawn back to the essence of making; the human touch, the spirit of community, connection and shared values. I was profoundly inspired by traditional costume and folkloric craft.
A sense of togetherness. The Isabel Marant girl gang takes the night with a silhouette rooted in the archetypal Parisienne look, the effortless volumes of sleek denim jeans worn with a perfectly cut boxy leather jacket. A masculine feminine tension runs through the collection. Camionneur knits, sailor cable knit sweaters and aviator outerwear with oversized buttons introduce rigor, countered by the sheer transparency of tulle dresses, embroidered bustiers and sharply plunging leather boots.
The collection is shaped by admiration for the women involved: the dancers, collaborators, and creative community. Their strength and vulnerability reflect the balance within the clothes – softness combined with power. The endurance of female craft forms both inspiration and foundation.
ZGeneration Paris AW26, PFW
With its first collection ZGENERATION welcomes you to a new world, where tensions emerge from in-betweens by blending past and future, everyday and couture, discarded and precious. The label turns overlooked materials into objects of desire and performance.
This collection is the first label’s one, it’s moving through waste and fragments : what was discarded now breathes with Mother Nature. It tends to call back to our human and wild nature, going back to what’s essential and real. Nature remembers, waste carry an history. Dear to the brand approach of fashion, old techniques as embroidery and hand couture sit alongside 3D printed forms and futuristic, robotic shapes : the future is made with the past since 100% of the collection is made of second-hand garnements, carefully thrifted in Paris.
Some looks carry shock or confront while others unfold slowly tackling intimacy and fragility, exploring texture and the rebirth of older, forgotten materials.
Lanvin AW2026 Women’s Collection for PFW
For 2026, Shapes reinvent ideas of Lanvin. The emblematic silhouette of the robe de style is remembered through gestures of volume in skirts of wool or fluid silk, newly cut to move against the body, hinted at with a deconstructed ruffle. Exaggerated hats evoke a sublimated cloche, nodding to Jeanne Lanvin’s origins as a milliner. Lalique glass and the linear embellishments of Art Deco — both present in her private apartments — translate into prints and seamwork.
Caught as if mid creation, tailored coats are folded at neck or revers, afforded a feminine softness. Moulage, the draping of fabric on the form, inspires dresses that contrast streamlined, moulded form with panes of free fabric, a sensibility of creation. Seams form external decoration, the internal grosgrain belt spanning an anterior waist. These are part of an indisputable language of Lanvin. The spontaneous beauty of the unfinished and undone.
Autumn/winter 2026 interweaves a classic colour palette of black and moss green with confectionary shades: sugared almond blue, macaron yellow and bonbon pink, imagined in sumptuous velvet, duchess satin and French lace. Metallic tiger prints and decadent blooms nod to the tour wardrobes of iconic rock icons like Mick Jagger and David Bowie, that continue to inspire Reed. Spotted transparencies and rippling chiffon echo the French house’s design signatures.
Accessories reflect the aristocratic yet utilitarian nature of the collection: bow-detail, buckled knee-high boots are inspired by the courtly footwear of King Louis XIV, while strings of pearls, embellished velvet ribbons and ornate corsages nod to the sashes worn by royal families. These are juxtaposed against downpour-ready Wellington boots and reflective visor sunglasses, which nod to a pair in Reed’s own wardrobe, worn to Coachella. A symbol of autumn/winter 2026’s down-to-earth drama, a blush pink satin purse features long fringing which falls to the floor, whether it’s the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, or the trampled grass of a music festival.
Sarah Burton’s third Givenchy runway show represents her intuitive portrayal of the strengths of women today. Constructed on foundations of cut, tailoring and silhouette she established on entering the house, the templates are turned around, spontaneously capturing the creative flow between the atelier and
her woman. Painterly themes and sculptural forms lean towards glimpses of Northern European old masters. The drape of a heavy duchesse satin cape, the shredded flowered evening dresses, the head-dresses conjured by Stephen Jones.
From strict sartorial precision to sensual free-form drape, Givenchy acts as a multi-faceted mirror held up to the complexity of women’s lives.
Feminine silhouettes soften and play with traditional menswear references, reflecting an intentional balance throughout. Men’s silk scarves illustrated with aviation and sporting scenes are refashioned into fluid skirts and dresses. Crisp cricket whites elevated in cream wool suiting, and a sculptural aviator-style denim jacket draw inspiration from uniform dressing, while a feminine expression of utility is found in a tonal chartreuse drill set.
Much of this season’s language is expressed through its layering, enhanced by the textures of its varied materials: shearling, velvet, and silk, styled to articulate the versatility of single pieces. Underpinnings and silk shirts with exaggerated sleeves layer multiple looks, highlighted beneath a blouson-style denim jumpsuit and sculptural knitwear.
Movement is inherent to ZIMMERMANN’s DNA, in which silhouettes are made to come alive in motion. A print and lace-paneled wrap dress sways over wide-legged denim; a chalk blue leather bomber with a ruffled silk skirt bounces in step, combining strength and sensuality. Heightening the sense of drape, flared jeans are cinched with a scarf-tied waist, and head-to-toe mahogany leather contours the body – neckties and cascading panels further a sense of movement.
This season, CFCL explores the theme “Knit-ware: Sculpture,” drawing inspiration from Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture. Through knitwear combining fluid drapes and sculptural forms, the collection reflects on clothing as a medium connecting the individual and society.
Maison Margiela SS 26 Campaign
Maison Margiela invites you to celebrate its Spring Summer 26 collection with a short film, starring composer and pianist Max Richter and an orchestra of 43 young musicians from the Orchestre à l’École association. Titled “Joy” the film takes its name from the original score composed by Max Richter for the campaign, which he performs at the harpsichord surrounded by the young musicians. The roots of “Joy” are in the Co-Ed Spring Summer 26 collection, of which one of the themes is a chaotic night at the opera. The runway featured some of the same young musicians featured in the film.
Surface yields to deeper impulses; the artifice undone.
Exploring a psychological tension between interiority and exteriority; performance and paranoia. Individualism under
an unwavering gaze.
The polished veneer cracks, giving rise to something stirring and tactile – human – underscoring precision and control. The boundary between interior confinement and expansive nature blurs, liberating the domestic. Floral wallpaper prints and lace are brought outside. Bed jackets become eveningwear, reimagined as rose-quilted bombers rendered in icy, Hitchcockian hues. Wild hand embroidered flowers emerge from 1960s silhouettes, pearlescent and sharpened to a fine point. Classic fabrics are subverted with textural treatments and a diverting lustre: changeant and pearlescent leather trench coats, sliced silk mikado suiting, and crushed floral jacquards.
Alexis Bittar FW 26
Bittar’s FW26 Collection narrative builds on his viral mockumentary social media series, The Sexecutions of Amanda Gates,co-directed by the critically acclaimed, Klimovski. The fictional protagonist, Amanda Gates, played by Jazzelle, is a multifaceted murderer, seeking revenge by hunting down, seducing, and killing known violent male sexual offenders who have repeatedly evaded prosecution.
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