Between the final couture show and September’s crowded fashion calendar, the industry appears to slow down. But fashion’s summer pause has become less an absence of activity than a change in where that activity takes place. By mid-July, fashion begins…
Fashion talks about sustainability differently than it did five years ago. The promises have become quieter, the vocabulary more cautious and the easy solutions harder to defend. Behind that change in tone, however, the industry’s environmental reckoning is becoming more…
Twenty years after its beginnings, Copenhagen Fashion Week entered Spring/Summer 2027 with returning Danish names, a growing international presence and collections that challenged the familiar image of Scandinavian fashion. Copenhagen has spent years being described as fashion’s unofficial fifth capital.…
Paris, Milan, London and New York still command the international calendar. But Florence, Copenhagen, Seoul, Tokyo and Rome suggest that fashion influence no longer depends on a single model of what a capital should be. For much of the modern…
From the human hand at Boucheron to Chaumet’s sensory botany and Messika’s exceptional blue diamond, the July 2026 high jewellery collections transformed memory, matter and movement into objects that may never exist twice. A gemstone can hold light for an…
September has a habit of reorganising fashion’s attention. New collections arrive almost continuously, established houses dominate the schedule and a handful of emerging names suddenly seem to be everywhere at once. By October, some will feel considerably less unfamiliar than…
At the Spring/Summer 2027 menswear shows, the male body seemed to be pulled in opposite directions. Some of the season’s narrowest tailoring appeared on exceptionally lean frames, while elsewhere exposed skin and abbreviated silhouettes drew attention to bodies shaped by…
Few designers have tested the limits of haute couture as persistently as Iris van Herpen. Since establishing her Amsterdam maison in 2007, she has developed a practice in which fashion moves through architecture, biology, engineering, contemporary art and science, bringing…
Fashion has spent a long time negotiating its place inside the museum. Costume Art, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 10, 2026, begins from a different position. Rather than asking whether clothing deserves to stand beside…
Most runway shows end the moment the final look disappears backstage. The applause fades, guests leave their seats and, within minutes, the collection begins a new life online through thousands of carefully selected images. What remains is often a sequence…
For four days, from July 6 to 9, Paris once again became the center of haute couture. Yet this season was defined by more than the return of the industry’s most exclusive calendar. Across 30 presentations, the collections reflected a…
On July 9, FENDI did more than present its Fall/Winter 2026 to 2027 Haute Couture collection. The Roman house transformed Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first couture presentation into a broader cultural statement, marking the beginning of a new creative chapter while…
