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After two decades shaping some of Europe's most influential luxury houses, Kim Jones is returning to his own label with an Asia-first strategy For much of modern luxury fashion, the career trajectory of a successful designer has followed a familiar geography. Build a reputation in London or Paris, establish a creative identity within a European house, and eventually expand into Asia as a commercial opportunity. Kim Jones is approaching his next chapter differently. Having spe

Seán McGirr is leaving Alexander McQueen after three years. His departure raises uncomfortable questions about the house's creative identity, commercial struggles and what its next designer will actually be expected to fix. Alexander McQueen is preparing for another reinvention. On 15 October, Kering officially confirmed that Seán McGirr would be leaving his position as creative director, ending a three-year tenure that began with enormous expectations and concluded just week

Chanel's Coco Neige 2026 campaign brings bold color, playful alpine references and a distinctly relaxed attitude to winter dressing, offering another glimpse of how Matthieu Blazy is reshaping the house beyond the runway Winter dressing at Chanel has traditionally occupied a rather glamorous altitude. Since its introduction in 2018, Coco Neige has brought the house's familiar codes into the world of ski resorts, technical outerwear and après-ski wardrobes, where practicality

Camille Miceli has quietly turned Pucci into one of luxury’s most recognizable good-time brands without flooding the market or sanding away its eccentricity. Camille Miceli has quietly turned Pucci into one of luxury’s most recognizable good-time brands without flooding the market or sanding away its eccentricity. The appointment of a new CEO suggests the next challenge is no longer getting people to notice Pucci. It is figuring out how much bigger the house should become. Fa

Ten years after arriving at Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello staged one of the most spectacular shows of his tenure. Perhaps it was simply an anniversary. Anthony Vaccarello has now spent a decade at Saint Laurent, an increasingly extraordinary length of time in an industry that seems to change creative directors before anyone has finished learning how to pronounce the previous one's name. A monumental show at the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower glowing gold behind it, would be

The famously independent fashion house is preparing to sell a 15 percent stake, and it may not go to just one buyer. For decades, Giorgio Armani resisted something that became almost routine among his contemporaries: selling control of his fashion house to somebody else. While luxury consolidated around increasingly powerful conglomerates, Armani remained independent, building one of Italy's largest fashion businesses without surrendering the company to LVMH, Kering or anothe

Spring 2027 was Glenn Martens' final collection for Diesel, closing a six-year tenure that transformed the denim label into one of Milan's most closely watched fashion brands Glenn Martens has officially presented his final collection as creative director of Diesel. The Spring 2027 show in Milan on September 23 marked the end of a six-year tenure that began with his appointment in October 2020 and saw the Belgian designer oversee a significant creative repositioning of the It

Fashion's eternal obsession with the next young thing suddenly feels a little less interesting Fashion loves youth almost as much as it loves nostalgia. It searches relentlessly for the next 25-year-old designer, the next emerging label, the next graduate collection capable of being transformed into an industry prophecy. Careers are discussed in terms of arrival, breakthrough and momentum, while reinvention is generally expected to happen somewhere safely before middle age. D

This year’s shortlist captures a fashion industry in the middle of one of its biggest creative reshuffles The British Fashion Council has revealed the nominees for The Fashion Awards 2026, and Designer of the Year reads almost like a roll call of fashion’s new establishment. Matthieu Blazy at Chanel. Haider Ackermann at Tom Ford. Sarah Burton at Givenchy. Michael Rider at Celine. Four designers, four enormously influential houses, and four relatively recent appointments that

The legendary designer who dressed Cher, Diana Ross and generations of performers leaves behind a dazzling legacy of glamour, wit and spectacle The legendary designer behind some of entertainment’s most unforgettable clothes has died at 87, leaving behind a world of sequins, feathers, illusion and an enduring belief in the power of making an entrance. There are designers whose work requires an explanation, and then there was Bob Mackie. You knew a Mackie when you saw one. It

At Harrods this September, five designers from Africa and its diaspora are entering one of luxury's most powerful retail spaces On the fifth floor of Harrods in Knightsbridge, five fashion houses have arrived from Accra, Lagos, Dakar, Nairobi and Port of Spain. Christie Brown represents Ghana, Abiola Olusola Nigeria, Sukeina Senegal, Studio Namnyak Kenya and The Cloth Trinidad and Tobago. Their collections form the inaugural retail cohort of Brand63Africa, a social enterprise

The CFDA’s fur ban takes effect this season, changing what can appear on New York’s official fashion calendar Fur may be enjoying a visual comeback, but New York is drawing a line between the look and the material itself. Beginning with the September 2026 season, designers on the official NYFW schedule can no longer show farmed or trapped fur from animals killed specifically for their pelts. The move places New York alongside a growing group of fashion capitals turning away f

The Antwerp designer has won the 2026 LVMH Prize just two years after launching her label Belgian designer Julie Kegels has won the 2026 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, placing one of Antwerp’s most compelling new voices firmly on fashion’s international radar. Kegels received the award at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris on 4 September, emerging from a final group of nine designers. Presented by Jennifer Lawrence, the prize comes with €400,000 and a year of mento

The former Gucci creative director joins Shanghai luxury house ICICLE Sabato De Sarno has found his next chapter. Joining ICICLE as Creative Director, the former Gucci designer steps into a Chinese luxury house with increasingly international ambitions. It is an appointment that signals more than fashion’s latest creative reshuffle, revealing a shifting luxury landscape in which Chinese brands are looking beyond domestic scale towards global cultural relevance. Sabato De Sarn

One of the world’s most recognisable couture houses is bringing its language of glamour, embellishment and refined evening dressing to H&M this autumn ELIE SAAB brings its world of couture glamour to H&M this October, translating the house’s signature lace, sequins, sculpted tailoring and evening drama into a complete wardrobe. Spanning womenswear, menswear and accessories, the collaboration promises a rare meeting between Beirut born couture heritage and fashion on a global

The third Hong Kong Fashion Fest offered something increasingly difficult to find on the global fashion calendar: the feeling that a city was still deciding what kind of fashion capital it wanted to become For two weeks in September 2026, fashion moved through Hong Kong differently. Couture entered a museum, experimental designers took over the runway, Italian and Hong Kong menswear met in Causeway Bay, emerging Asian names were placed before international industry leaders, a