Category: Fashion Shows
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Etro Spring/Summer 2027: A Softer Kind of Bohemia
For Spring/Summer 2027, Etro turned inward, softening the bohemian language that has long defined the house. Called Halo, the collection imagined an Etro woman surrounded by an almost weightless aura of paisleys, flowing fabrics and movement. Rather than reinventing its identity, the house chose to blur it. Etro Spring/Summer 2027 Collection Paisley remained at the… Read more
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Thom Browne Spring/Summer 2027: Tailoring in Metamorphosis
Thom Browne closed New York Fashion Week with a theatrical journey through the insect world. At The Shed, a giant chrysalis stood surrounded by oversized leaves and flowers, immediately shrinking the audience into the perspective of a bug. The collection followed the same transformation: caterpillars became butterflies, while Browne’s familiar tailoring evolved into increasingly surreal… Read more
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Grace Ling Spring/ Summer 2027: Beauty With a Bite
For Spring Summer 2027, Grace Ling returned to New York Fashion Week with Oddities, a collection built around contradictions: masculine and feminine, sensuality and strength, beauty and danger. But rather than treating these opposites as choices, Ling asks why they have to exist separately in the first place. That idea was established from the very… Read more
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Cult Gaia Spring/Summer 2027: Finding Heaven After Grief
Cult Gaia returned to New York Fashion Week with Behesht, Persian for “heaven,” but Jasmin Larian Hekmat’s idea of paradise was far from perfect or untouched. Instead, the Spring 2027 collection was shaped by grief, specifically the loss of her grandmother, Mommy Aghdas, and the idea that beauty can emerge from even the most painful… Read more
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Coach Spring/Summer 2027: Memory, Messiness and the Art of the Party
For its 85th anniversary, Coach did not throw a polished retrospective. Instead, Stuart Vevers turned the milestone into something much more personal: a celebration of memory, nostalgia and the imperfect beauty of things that have been lived in. “I didn’t want to create a retrospective,” Vevers explained, and that idea shaped the entire Spring/Summer 2027… Read more
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Dilara Findikoglu’s Bridal Capsule: A Feminist Reimagining of the Bride
“The sexualization of women is only appealing if it is nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s sluttiness.” At its core, Dilara Findikoglu’s Bride capsule – titled “Wedding Party Capsule” – is a challenge to the social expectations placed on women—and especially on brides. The collection emerges from a feminist belief in bodily autonomy: women should be able to… Read more
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Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Fall 2026: A Sicilian Fairytale Rooted in Myth, Devotion and Beauty
Fourteen years after launching Alta Moda in Taormina, Dolce & Gabbana returned to the Sicilian town for its Fall 2026 Alta Moda collection. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Radicepura Horticultural Park beneath Mount Etna, the show transformed the botanical gardens into a mythical stage where fashion, nature, and Sicilian tradition converged. A poetic narration… Read more
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Rahul Mishra Fall/Winter 2026 Couture: A Timeless Tribute to India’s Sculptural Heritage
For Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture, Rahul Mishra looked inward, presenting what he described as his “most India-inspired collection” to date. Titled DEVI: The Eternal Muse, the collection draws from centuries of Indian art, transforming ancient temple sculptures into contemporary couture while celebrating femininity through the lens of craftsmanship. Inspired by landmarks such as the Ajanta… Read more
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Iris van Herpen Fall/Winter 2026 Couture: ‘Sonic Starquakes’ Blurs the Line Between Fashion, Science and the Universe
While many haute couture collections draw inspiration from art or history, Iris van Herpen continues to look toward science. For Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture, unveiled during Paris Haute Couture Week, the Dutch designer presented “Sonic Starquakes,” a collection inspired by stellar vibrations, plasma, galaxies, and the invisible forces that shape the universe. The collection explores… Read more
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Reinventing Chanel Through a Modern Fairy Tale: Gaby and the Beanstalk
For his second Haute Couture collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy turned to one of the maison’s greatest stories: Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s own life. After discovering an antique book of fairy tales in Chanel’s personal library at Rue Cambon, the designer imagined her remarkable journey from orphan to legendary couturière as a modern fable. Aptly titled… Read more