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26 June 2026

An eight-metre wave in the middle of a drought: Paris picks over the Louis Vuitton show

LVMH says the water ran on a closed loop and went back into the sewer. The students in the halls the structure was built against say something else: “A complete paradox.”

26 June 2026

“I started with five pounds at my kitchen table”: Studio Nicholson takes to the runway

The British label broke through in Japan first and only then at home. Sixteen years on: a first Paris show and revenue up 56% in three years.

25 June 2026

Luxury lost 70 million customers — and has only now begun to win them back

The market is showing the first signs of recovery. But the key figure in the report is a different one: since 2022 the industry has shed tens of millions of clients by raising prices and concentrating on the very richest.

23 June 2026

Pharrell opened fashion week with an artificial waterfall in 40-degree heat

Models walked on sand carrying surfboards while the audience fanned itself and sweated: at nine in the evening it was still above 30°C in Paris. The Eiffel Tower closed that day.

23 June 2026

Valentino swings to a €103 million loss — and shareholders top it up again

Revenue fell 15% and net debt rose to €1.13 billion. Kering holds an option to buy the remaining 70% by 2029.

22 June 2026

Armani closed Milan with a Mediterranean collection — and Silvana’s first cruise

“There is enormous loyalty, but there is also movement forward,” says Leo Dell’Orco. The silhouette is longer and narrower, the palette white, sand and shades of grey.

22 June 2026

McQueen returns to London for the first time in three years

The 20 September show is the house’s first in its home city since 2023 and its first in London under Seán McGirr. McQueen decamped to Paris back in 2001.

21 June 2026

Prada strips out everything unnecessary: “make something new out of nothing”

The collection is called “Clarity”. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons: “Against exaggeration, against complicated material. Against useless design.”

21 June 2026

Sunnei’s founders take over Moschino — the pair behind the auction show

Their last show was not a show but a staged auction with bidding in “fashion dollars”. They announced their departure a few hours later. Now they get Franco Moschino’s house.

20 June 2026

Dolce & Gabbana sends its men on a Sicilian holiday

The backdrop is the coast near Taormina, shifting colour with the hours of the day. The show opened in all black and closed in all white.

19 June 2026

Ralph Lauren is back in Milan — dressing two generations at once

A show in the brand’s palazzo, with Lewis Hamilton, Henry Golding and Maluma in the room. “That navy tuxedo… my god, it was phenomenal.”

11 June 2026

At four he told his parents he was a tailor. At ten he showed a collection in Paris

“You can make a dress out of cucumbers. Out of spoons. Out of coat hangers.” Max Alexander is the youngest runway designer in history, according to Guinness World Records.