Your Best & Worst Collections of F/W 2026.27

[Creative]

End of the season is already here!

Best collection for me was Celine probably.

Worst Givenchy and Balenciaga.

 

[Creative]

Worst fashion month ever since the internet exists!

Decent/good: YSL, Rick Owens, and Matières Fécales (none of these are my style, but they know what they're doing, even on autopilot).
Worst: Dior, Alaia, and Miu Miu (all very lazy).

Really? I think it was slightly better than previous seasons. Tom Ford, Celine, The Row… not amazing but kinda nice.

 

[HazJW]

Céline best major name, Nanoushka best smaller name, but still have quite a bit to see.

 

[HazJW]

Really? I think it was slightly better than previous seasons. Tom Ford, Celine, The Row… not amazing but kinda nice.

I'm nowhere near as experienced an observer as a lot of people on here, but I've found it quite a good season. Some bad collections from the big houses, but nothing career-endingly hideous, and lots of really promising work from smaller brands.

 

[disco54]

1. Tom Ford BY FAR

2. Ralph Lauren
3. Burberry
4. Celine
5. Max Mara

Worst: Gucci , Balenciaga, Loewe , Philip Plein

 

[Olaffo]

Best: Tom Ford
Worst: this train wreck at Balenciaga

Indifferent to: Dior and Chanel

 

[HazJW]

Céline best major name, Nanoushka best smaller name, but still have quite a bit to see.

Rough rankings

Very good:
Nanoushka
Céline
Christopher John Rogers
Isabel Marant
Kiko Kostadinov
Zimmermann
Max Mara

Good:
Chanel
Christian Wijnants
LV
Uma Wang
Tom Ford
Balenciaga

Solid but not my taste/unremarkable/autopilot:
Miu Miu
Elie Saab
Paul Costelloe
David Catalan
Stella McCartney
Lacoste
Prada

Interesting in parts but inconsistent/unsuccessful:
JPG
Bora Aksu
Hermès
Shiatzy Chen
Dior
Bottega Veneta

Boring/trite but not offensively bad:
Alaia
Victoria Beckham
Magda Butrym
Luisa Spagnoli
Gabriela Hearst

Bad:
ABRA
McQueen
Ann Demeulemeester

Target customer probably got named in the Epstein Files:
Philipp Plein
Zadig & Voltaire

Nina Ricci:
Nina Ricci

 

[HazJW]

Rough rankings

Very good:
Nanoushka
Céline
Christopher John Rogers
Isabel Marant
Kiko Kostadinov
Zimmermann
Max Mara

Good:
Chanel
Christian Wijnants
LV
Uma Wang
Tom Ford
Balenciaga

Solid but not my taste/unremarkable/autopilot:
Miu Miu
Elie Saab
Paul Costelloe
David Catalan
Stella McCartney
Lacoste
Prada

Interesting in parts but inconsistent/unsuccessful:
JPG
Bora Aksu
Hermès
Shiatzy Chen
Dior
Bottega Veneta

Boring/trite but not offensively bad:
Alaia
Victoria Beckham
Magda Butrym
Luisa Spagnoli
Gabriela Hearst

Bad:
ABRA
McQueen
Ann Demeulemeester

Target customer probably got named in the Epstein Files:
Philipp Plein
Zadig & Voltaire

Nina Ricci:
Nina Ricci

Forgot to put D&G in there. Their collection was good and can go just above Chanel.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

Nina Ricci:
Nina Ricci

Loved that last category that you invented and, although I prefer to concentrate on the positive things, I kind of agree 🤭
That collection was like the ninth circle of hell in the Divine Comedy.


Best collections:
Comme des Garçons
Junya Watanabe
Yohji Yamamoto
Tom Ford
Courrèges
Erdem

 

[Zorka]

Aware that my personal taste often differs quite noticeably from that of fashion media and industry commentators, I have usually refrained from sharing my opinions here. This year, however, I've decided to change that - so here we go! 😁

The Best: Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton

The Most Overrated: Dior

The Most Underrated: Balenciaga

The Worst: Gucci

 

[Caffeine]

Honestly, nothing made my heart sing.

LV was interesting
Erdem interesting but the fabric sucks
The rest of the names in the "best" categories above were all okay but there is no "wow" anywhere.

 

[Salvatore]

It's hard for me to even remember what happened before Paris, but here goes:
STELLAR: Tom Ford
Good: YSL, Ferrari, Tod's
Fine: Céline, Chanel, Dior, The Row
Questionable: Schiaparelli, Louis Vuitton, Loewe, Chloé
Not Good Enough: Givenchy, Alaïa, Balmain, Mugler, Fendi
Awful: Balenciaga, Gucci

Brands like McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Prada, Miu Miu, Hermès ... don't really care.

 

[helmutnotdead]

Tom Ford the show of the season.

Louis Vuitton
Junya Watanabe
The Row
Hodakova
Dior
Tod’s
Eckhaus Latta
Marc Jacobs (I know it’s ss 26 but I don’t care)

 

[HazJW]

Tom Ford the show of the season.

Louis Vuitton
Junya Watanabe
The Row
Hodakova
Dior
Tod’s
Eckhaus Latta
Marc Jacobs (I know it’s ss 26 but I don’t care)

Hodakova was good, nice to see some lesser known brands getting votes.

 

[Deleted member 183337]

Best: Tom Ford

Everything else can burn! 🔥

 

[Deleted member 183337]

What an absolutely TRAGIC fashion month. The worst season in recent memory for me!

The new hires at these maisons are completely and utterly incompetent. Unqualified yes.. but they were meant to prove their competence during FW26 which didn’t happen! MB at Chanel? A collage of his debut. JW Anderson? None of those runway pieces will be produced. PPP at Balenciaga? An old man trying to stay hip. Duran at JPG, a crook. The list goes on.

The hires I think that’ll stick are H.A at Tom Ford, M.R at Celine. Only those two simply because I’ve seen non fashion folk on the streets and in our office building wearing it.

Sarah could work at Givenchy, only if she hires a better stylist.

 

[fruitdots]

I think my best would be Louis Vuitton, Mame Kurogouchi, Yohji Yamamoto, and Courrèges.

Worst: Fendi was awful, but expectedly so. Dries van Noten was very disappointing, and I will always loathe Daniel Rosberry's Schiaparelli.

I'm still totally mixed on Dior and Chanel. I see good and bad in both, but nothing feels particularly stable or settled at either so I am interested in seeing how they continue to develop (or not). Sometimes it's fun to watch partially successful experiments unfold...

 

[RedSmokeRise]

Best:
Courrèges
Tom Ford

Fun but not the best:
Louis Vuitton
Marie Adam-Leenaerdt
Missoni
Mugler
Celine

"Meh" but still rooting for:
Givenchy
Chloe
Chanel

Whatever:
Loewe
Gucci
Balenciaga
Jil Sander

Worst:
Ann Demeulemeester
Nina Ricci

 

[VogueDisciple93]

Absolutely worst season of all time. As I said when the new crop of CDs were being announced last year, the industry is being led by empty vessels and it shows.

Best/Sensational/Show of the Season: Tom Ford.

Good: Issey Miyake, Keisukeyoshida (though from Tokyo), Thevxlley, Matieres Fecales (yes, that was a pig that just flew by your window).

Better than usual: Burberry

Bad: All collections not listed above.

Worst: Gucci, Chloe, Marni, Schiaparelli, Calvin Klein, Nina Ricci.

Go away: Maria Grazia

 

[j02215]

It’s a low season for me. I do not have a favorite. I feel like the major houses are now filled with studio directors, rather than true creative directors.

In that vein, the only house that showed a convincing and cohesive creative direction was Tom Ford