Kicking off Paris Fashion Week on September 29th, Anthony Vaccarello showcased his summer 2026 collection for Saint Laurent womenswear. Taking place at nighttime at the Parisian Fontaine du Trocadéro, with the Eiffel Tower twinkling in the background, this was Vaccarello’s 30th show for the Maison. Quite a milestone. The Belgian designer has been the creative director of Saint Laurent since 2016, a position he doesn’t intend to give up anytime soon. More than a scholar of the label’s founder, Yves Saint Laurent, and his past collections, Vaccarello has a true passion for the brand. That is perhaps why it seems…

Alessandro Michele is an enthusiast of beauty. It has always been like that, from his years at Gucci, where he served as creative director between 2015 and 2022, to his first Valentino collection, a lookbook showcased in June 2024. Besides having a penchant for all sorts of beautiful things, Michele is also a maximalist, a lover of vintage, and a true romantic in fashion. These are traits he’s been carrying throughout his career and are worth keeping in mind. Michele’s appointment as creative director of Valentino, announced in March 2024, divided opinions online. Whoever was a fan of his revolutionary…

A total of 16 creative director debuts happened during spring/summer 2026 in luxury fashion. But from this year’s exhaustively shared list of new (and old) names, only two designers were female. They were Rachel Scott, hired to be in charge of the American brand Proenza Schouler, and Louise Trotter, responsible for replacing Matthieu Blazy as creative director of Italian label Bottega Veneta. Last season, during the autumn/winter shows, Sarah Burton, formerly at Alexander McQueen, showcased in Paris her first collection as creative director for Givenchy. Another celebrated appointment due to its unfortunately atypical nature in the industry. Of course, there…

If most of Paris Fashion Week events took place indoors, the Celine 2026 Summer ready-to-wear show was held closer to nature. Channelling a relaxed sunny Sunday in the park, the collection was presented in daylight on October 5th at Parc de Saint-Cloud, a green space just outside Paris. This was Michael Rider’s second collection as artistic director, only three months after his Parisian spring debut for Celine in July. However, Rider is not unfamiliar with the French label, having worked as its studio design director in the past, throughout Phoebe Philo’s tenure. The American designer’s vast experience includes a period…

Since his solid debut as the creative director of Tom Ford in March, Haider Ackermann has been committed to a tricky task: materialising the idea of seduction through his vision for the brand. That’s because portraying chicness and sensuality, like Ford himself was known to do until choosing to step out of his eponymous label a couple of years ago, is way more complex in 2025 than it used to be in the past. Ackermann’s predecessor, Peter Hawkings, for example, stayed as creative director for only 15 months, despite working behind the scenes for Tom Ford for over two decades.…

More than a brand, Miu Miu has established itself as a cultural phenomenon, even considered a case study over the last four to five years. One of the few luxury labels which survived the post-COVID pandemic surge, the so-called Prada’s younger sister has been a consistent sales driver within the Prada Group, with an increase of 41% in the past nine months, according to Vogue Business. But Miu Miu’s success is less about pure luck and more a reflection of our times. The brand’s formula of mixing good branding, a styling team that understands cultural trends, and a female creative…

Who gets a free pass to the House of Dior? Who would be brave enough to enter, modernise, or even change it for its own sake? With the pressing statement ‘Do you dare enter the House of Dior?’ followed by a short film made by British social documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, Jonathan Anderson presented his first womenswear collection as the creative director of Dior at Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2026. The new talent was publicly announced in April as a fresh start, a piece of information known as one of the worst-kept secrets in contemporary fashion. On a big inverted…

Some would say that the 6th of October of 2025 marked one of the most eagerly awaited events in contemporary fashion history. For several industry insiders, that Autumn Monday is now synonymous with the most important Paris Fashion Week show debut of a promising season, highlighted by a range of new creative director appointments. On that evening, the newest creative director, Matthieu Blazy, presented his first-ever collection for Chanel Spring-Summer 2026. A total of 77 looks were showcased at the Grand Palais. The iconic palace was one of Karl Lagerfeld’s favourite show locations and a Parisian landmark often associated with…

On January 29, during the third day of the Copenhagen Fashion Week, the capital of fashion in the Nordics got another gem revealed with The Garment Autumn-Winter 2025 collection. On this occasion, 28 new looks dominated the runway, showcasing ideas from far away. But first, let’s talk about the creator. Everything began with the Danish designer Charlotte Eskildsen. She launched the company in 2020 as a new approach for herself after working in the industry for decades. Charlotte began her fashion career as a co-founder of the brand “Designers, Remix.” After 22 years in the industry, the talented designer wanted…