Luxury fashion has never been defined solely by the products it sells. It also depends on ideas that are far less tangible, including craftsmanship, artistic vision and the promise that every detail reflects human expertise. Throughout 2026, those values were…
There is something deceptively familiar about 18th-century fashion. Corsets, panniers, elaborate fabrics, powdered hair and ornament have become so recognisable that they can almost be read at a glance. They appear across cinema, photography, contemporary collections and popular culture, often…
Luxury fashion has spent the past two years changing faces. Dior, Chanel, Gucci, Balenciaga, Loewe, Bottega Veneta, Givenchy and several other major houses entered new creative eras within an unusually compressed period, turning what might once have been treated as…
Paris rarely moves in one direction. Across nine days of shows and presentations, ideas overlapped, contradicted one another and occasionally arrived at remarkably similar conclusions. Fall/Winter 2026 was no exception. After the wave of creative director debuts that transformed the…
Intelligence of instability Miu Miu has spent years examining femininity without trying to settle on a definitive version of it. Youth and maturity, vulnerability and authority, practicality and sensuality regularly occupy the same collection, not as opposites waiting to be…
At Vivienne Westwood, history has never been particularly well behaved. It is borrowed, distorted and sometimes treated with outright irreverence, which is precisely why the house’s references to the past rarely feel nostalgic. For Fall/Winter 2026–2027, Andreas Kronthaler returned to…
Monumental but human Rick Owens has spent much of his career exploring what happens when clothing refuses to remain within the expected proportions of the body. For Fall/Winter 2026-2027, presented at the Palais de Tokyo on March 5, that familiar…
Surrealism, held in place Schiaparelli has never operated comfortably within fashion’s usual logic. Elsa Schiaparelli built the house by treating clothes as a medium for contradiction, illusion and collaboration with artists, and under Daniel Roseberry, that instinct has found a…
Few houses have built such a consistent relationship with quiet luxury as The Row. Since its founding, the brand has developed a visual language shaped by proportion, material and construction rather than overt expression, demonstrating that luxury is often defined…
Fashion weeks are often remembered through individual moments. A striking silhouette, an unexpected casting choice or the closing look of a major house can easily dominate the conversation. Yet once the pace slows, another picture begins to emerge. The collections…
