07 July 2026
Armani Privé: a second couture collection without Armani
Beaded blazers, leopard in muted tones and evening dresses with trains. Behind the scenes, a will requiring 15% of the group to be sold within the next eighteen months.
News
What is happening in the fashion industry: trends, brands and launches.
07 July 2026
Chanel shows couture out of fairy tales: feathered collars and slit tweed
A vine creeps up a heel, a clutch pretends to be a sleeping bear, and a row of buttons turns from duckling into swan. Matthieu Blazy’s second couture collection.
07 July 2026
£150 shorts: running labels have come to fashion week for the luxury shopper
Forty runners, sweaty from a run, turned up to breakfast at Dover Street Market. Then came the buyer meetings. That is how the running brand business works now.
07 July 2026
Schiaparelli opened Paris couture week with a collection of silicone and pearls
The bodice was modelled by hand, like a sculpture, and cast in silicone. The lace on the jacket is painted on. And tentacles came down the runway.
07 July 2026
The atelier that embroidered for Dior and Prada for forty years has launched its own brand
Chanakya made the embroidery for Dior, Prada and Fendi. Now the mother and daughter Swali are taking the label Chorus to the global market — and 40% of its online sales already come from abroad.
06 July 2026
Dior showed couture three days after dressing Taylor Swift for her wedding
Guests were sent black bamboo fans along with their invitations — with good reason: the show ran in a garden in 30C heat. On the runway, ferns, silk flowers and bags devised with a sculptor.
06 July 2026
Dior beat Chanel in the big battle over the wedding of the decade
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married in couture by Jonathan Anderson. 273 million followers — that is reach no advertising campaign can buy.
03 July 2026
The men have caught up: Djokovic in a Lacoste blazer, Fritz in a Hugo Boss suit
“You can’t walk out in a look like that and lose in the first round. That looks really bad,” says Taylor Fritz. And Berrettini’s outfit was rejected by Wimbledon: “not white enough.”
03 July 2026
“I’d rather talk about my clothes”: Osaka reaches the Wimbledon fourth round
A Kill Bill-style kimono on the walk-on, 6-1, 6-3 on court and her best result at the tournament.
29 June 2026
The United States of luxury: Scottsdale, Nashville and the other cities everyone is running to
“When luxury started opening in Williamsburg, I was sceptical. Now we have gone well beyond Williamsburg.” Here is where, city by city.
29 June 2026
The hottest week in Paris’s history: inflatable clothes with built-in air conditioning
Guests were handed fans, face mists, Japanese kakigōri and water pistols. Some journalists moved into air-conditioned hotels; others simply left town.
29 June 2026
Saks has come out of bankruptcy half its former size — and now has to win shoppers back
Debt cut by 75%, shareholders including Amazon wiped out, store count halved. Small brands in the creditor queue got nothing.