Fashion WeeksThe Spring/Summer 2027 schedule runs September 28 to October 6, with debuts from Drew Henry at Courrèges and Kai Nesselrath at Carven, Valentino and Margiela back, and McQueen gone to London. The season the reset has to start paying for itself.
The calendar
The season where the CFDA's ban on animal fur takes effect across all official runways and calendar-listed shows.
Six days that now carry the weight of two of the biggest house transitions in the industry, at Gucci and at Fendi.
The womenswear season closer: 68 shows and 33 presentations, with debuts from Drew Henry at Courrèges and Kai Nesselrath at Carven, and Valentino, Maison Margiela and Sacai back on the calendar.
London regains McQueen this season after its return from the Paris calendar, a rare reversal in a decade of drift toward France.
RunwayHis debut ready-to-wear was described as the first real break at the house in more than four decades. Whether the Chanel customer wants a break is the question the ovation could not answer.
Fashion WeeksDemna's first Gucci runway show and Maria Grazia Chiuri's first Fendi collection landed inside one week, February 24 to March 2. A city that had been losing ground got handed the two most-watched shows of the season.
Fashion WeeksNYFW ran February 11 to 16, London 19 to 23, Milan 24 to March 2, Paris closing on October 6 in September. Four cities, four organizing bodies, no shared authority, and a sequence being managed as a single product anyway.
HousesDior, Chanel, Gucci, Balenciaga, Celine, Maison Margiela, Fendi, Bottega Veneta. Fifteen debuts in the Spring/Summer 2026 season alone. A map of the largest creative reset in modern luxury, and why it happened all at once.
Fashion WeeksSpring/Summer 2026 was the most consequential fashion month in decades: Anderson's first Dior womenswear on October 1, Blazy's Chanel days later, and a schedule where almost every marquee slot belonged to someone new.
RunwayDemna's first Gucci built each look as a character in the house's family tree, re-proportioned the Bamboo 1947 and put the Horsebit loafer with sheer hosiery. The reviews were warm. The forums were not.
BusinessEurope slowing while the US and Asia lift. Two to five percent growth received as good news. A rebound that keeps getting a reality check, and a sector that has quietly redefined what normal looks like.
BusinessFirst-half sales of €38.6 billion, a 3% second quarter, and a fashion and leather goods business still down 5% across the half. Kering posted its first positive quarter in three years. The recovery is real and it is thin.
The collections, the debuts, and what the clothes are actually arguing for.
RunwayHis first Dior womenswear, October 1, got a standing ovation in the room and a genuine fight everywhere else. The most hyped and most polarizing show of the year, which is exactly what a debut should produce.
Creative directors, appointments, and the strategy behind who gets handed a heritage house.
HousesJonathan Anderson took all of Dior in 2025 and by July 2026 LVMH was attributing part of its first fashion growth in seven quarters to his effect. What it takes to move an €18 billion division, and what the credit actually proves.
The ateliers, the highest tier, and the economics of clothes nobody needs.
CoutureParis haute couture ran July 6 to 9 with Pierpaolo Piccioli's Balenciaga debut and Duran Lantink's at Jean Paul Gaultier, alongside second outings from Blazy and Anderson. The clothes were sculptural. The subject was handover.
CoutureHis first Balenciaga couture, shown in the July week, answered the question everyone had about the appointment: he was not going to imitate what the house had been for the previous decade.
Group results, deals, and the numbers underneath the shows.
BusinessThe acquisition from Capri Holdings completed in early December after signing in April, with a relaunch plan running to 2030. An Italian group buying an Italian house is rarer than it should be.
Standards, regulation, materials, and which requirements have real teeth.
SustainabilityThe CFDA rule covers all official runways and calendar-listed shows from the Spring/Summer 2027 season. What matters is the mechanism: fashion weeks have started using schedule access as regulation.
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