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London Fashion Week
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Sunlight & Prep: Blooming English Summer
Kent & Curwen's SS26, under Creative Director Daniel Kearns, feels like a love letter to the English summer: playful, leafy, slightly...
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Oct 14, 20254 min read


Timeless Utility & Quiet Luxury
Johanna Parv enters Spring/Summer 2026 with marked confidence. Her new collection leans heavily into minimalism, monochrome restraint,...
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Oct 14, 20253 min read


Comfort as Expression; Home as Stage
Talia Byre's Spring/Summer 2026 marks not just another season, but a coming into fuller presence. For the designer, this is her runway...
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Oct 13, 20254 min read


Reckoning with Realness
Aaron Esh's Spring/Summer 2026 felt like someone had turned up the contrast: between tailoring and grit, between elegance and edge,...
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Oct 13, 20253 min read


Between Mourning & Bloom
With just her second whole runway show, Pauline Dujancourt stakes a claim this season: that knitwear, memory, and grief are not opposing...
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Oct 13, 20253 min read


Tribute, Refinement & The Next Stage
Richard Quinn's SS26 show feels like both a crowning moment and a pivot. The familiar Quinn theatrics-grand florals, dramatic...
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Oct 13, 20253 min read


Quiet Geometry & Fluid Frames
In SS26, Harri composes a collection less about maximal spectacle and more about the poetry of shape, seam, and intentional restraint....
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Oct 13, 20253 min read


20 Years, Curves & Cut-Outs
For Spring/Summer 2026, Roksanda Ilincic celebrates a milestone: two decades of her eponymous label. SS26 is less about reinvention than...
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Oct 13, 20253 min read


"SLvY" - Embers of Resistance; Armor of Vulnerability
Marie Lueder's Spring/Summer 2026 show, SLvY, unfolds not merely as a runway but as a ritual. Drawing from mythology, medieval symbolism,...
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Oct 11, 20253 min read


Affinity: On Love, Heritage & the Tension of Emotion
Priya Ahluwalia's Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Affinity, unfurls in Covent Garden's leafy conservatory atrium at the NoMad Hotel — a...
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Oct 11, 20253 min read


Objects of Ordinary Reimagined
Yasuko Furuta returns with TOGA SS26, having paused on the fantastical to refocus on the everyday, refracted through a lens of the...
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Oct 11, 20253 min read


Armour of Roses / Dream-Drive Disclosures
Yuhan Wang enters Spring/Summer 2026 with one foot in dreamworld, the other in psychodrama. Her runway is unravelled film, flickering...
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Oct 11, 20253 min read


A Ground to Stand On
With his Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Yaku Stapleton advances his universe of characters, myth, and metaphor into more grounded...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read


The Lancashire Rose
In The Lancashire Rose, Patrick McDowell steps into a new chapter: his first complete ready-to-wear collection, a tribute to his...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read


Of Movement, Memory & Cultural Cartographies
Labrum London steps forward into Spring/Summer 2026 carrying the freight of past collections: diaspora histories, West African mythos,...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read


Afterhours Revelries & Accidental Glamour
Natasha Zinko's Spring/Summer 2026 feels like the residue of a night that refused to stop. If the mood is messy, it's intentional: the...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read


Cheerlore: Uniforms, Reclamation, and the Wild Assemblage of Girlhood
For Spring/Summer 2026, Chopova Lowena throws a riotous street-hall party, a collision of teenage ritual, folk costumes, and feminist...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read


Knits, Sea-Glass & The Club Revival
Mark Fast's Spring/Summer 2026 collection arrives as both a return and a recalibration. After spending time in the natural environs of...
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Oct 9, 20253 min read


Hard Graft, Nomadisms & Balletic Longings
For its 25th year, Fashion East stakes a claim not to nostalgia, but to evolution. The SS26 presentation, held under the auspices of its...
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Oct 9, 20253 min read


The Archaeology of Self
Dimitra Petsa returns for Spring/Summer 2026 with The Archaeology of Self, her most emotionally layered collection to date. In stepping...
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Oct 8, 20253 min read
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