S/S 2026 Open Discussion Thread

[vogue28]

The preliminary New York Fashion Week S/S 2026 schedule has been released by the CFDA, and is now pinned at the top of Designers & Collections, here.

Michael Kors is kicking things off this season, come September!

 

[unknown179]

Does anyone know when the lfw schedule will be posted? TopShop will be showing

 

[unknown179]

londonfashionweek.co.uk/schedule

 

[Simera]

TopShop isn't listed, but H&M is doing a show?
I have no clue who half of these LFW people are tbh - there are like 5 decent shows.
Missing David Koma, JW ANDERSON, Nensi Dojaka and Molly Goddard every season.

 

[fashman]

The preliminary New York Fashion Week S/S 2026 schedule has been released by the CFDA, and is now pinned at the top of Designers & Collections, here.

Michael Kors is kicking things off this season, come September!

The S/Summer 2026 NY Fashion Week is set from Thursday, September 18 to Monday, September 22...
I think this provisional schedule was just released not quite long.

 

[Simera]

The S/Summer 2026 NY Fashion Week is set from Thursday, September 18 to Monday, September 22...
I think this provisional schedule was just released not quite long.

Those are the London FW dates.

New York is September 11 - 16
London is September 18 - 22
Milano September 23 - 29
Paris September 29 - October 7

 

[fashman]

Those are the London FW dates.

New York is September 11 - 16
London is September 18 - 22
Milano September 23 - 29
Paris September 29 - October 7

Oh! thanks for the heads-up, I superimposed the dates lol

 

[unknown179]

TopShop isn't listed, but H&M is doing a show?
I have no clue who half of these LFW people are tbh - there are like 5 decent shows.
Missing David Koma, JW ANDERSON, Nensi Dojaka and Molly Goddard every season.

David left for Berlin and I doubt he'll be coming back. Nensi usually shows once a year (in September) which is why I'm surprised she's not on the schedule. Dilara also usually shows once a year (in February) but I guess since the fees were lifted she's showing again?
16Arlington is missing from the schedule, last season he had a dinner to present pictures of a sh*t collection

 

[unknown179]

lfw ss26

 

[Simera]

David left for Berlin and I doubt he'll be coming back. Nensi usually shows once a year (in September) which is why I'm surprised she's not on the schedule. Dilara also usually shows once a year (in February) but I guess since the fees were lifted she's showing again?
16Arlington is missing from the schedule, last season he had a dinner to present pictures of a sh*t collection

Oh I forgot about 16Arlington

LFW really is such a flop. They need to pull in better designers that would bring in a better cast of models too.

 

[unknown179]

Oh I forgot about 16Arlington

LFW really is such a flop. They need to pull in better designers that would bring in a better cast of models too.

Exactly!! The girls only fly in for Nensi Dojaka, Simone Rocha & JW (& Erdem sometimes)
I don't count Burberry
Anita cast Dilara's last show for the first time, makes me wonder how she can afford her knowing she's in sm debt

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

I just know I will hate every new debut this season, and all these new CDs will make me dislike my industry even more, as they murder and kill all the fashion dreams.

 

[vogue28]

The provisional Paris Fashion Week S/S 2026 schedule has been released, which is now pinned at the top of Designers & Collections, here.

Chanel on a Monday feels very... strange! So excited to see what Matthieu Blazy has conjured up for us.

 

[Simera]

celine showing again?
JPG back!

I am so excited!! Now we just need Milano which is usually my favorite city for Spring Summer season.

 

[LadyJunon]

It's kind of strange to see how Milan's calendar has been delayed. I can imagine that it due to Gucci (and possibly Versace if you've seen the rumours on Vitale's thread), but Camera Moda is usually synched with the FHCM on communication and such.

 

[Simera]

As someone who has an Italian mother, I am not surprised by the Italians being the last to arrive to the party ( ie late )

 

[LadyJunon]

The tea on Milan:

Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Versace, Jil Sander Debuts Headline Packed Milan Fashion Week Spring 2026 Schedule
Meanwhile Marni is missing from the calendar as new creative director Meryll Rogge is to host her runway debut in February.

By Martino Carrera
July 31, 2025, 6:26am

MILAN — A host of debuts at marquee fashion houses and Giorgio Armani’s celebrations for his company’s 50th anniversary are building anticipation for the upcoming edition of Milan Fashion Week, planned for Sept. 23 to 29.

The spring 2026 season boasts one of the highest concentrations of designer debuts in recent history. In Milan, Dario Vitale is to share his vision for Versace; Simone Bellotti for Jil Sander; Louise Trotter for Bottega Veneta, and Demna for Gucci.

Not all are embracing the runway format, though.

Gucci has earmarked Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. CET to unveil the Georgian’s first designs. As reported, Demna’s first show for the Italian brand will be next March, with his September presentation more of a reminder of Gucci’s foundations. Rumors have swirled in Milan about the exact format of the upcoming showcase, but Gucci has been mum about details.

Similarly, Vitale’s Versace debut will be an intimate affair rather than a runway show, as first reported by WWD on Tuesday, which explains why the brand isn’t featured on the preliminary schedule, which does not include yet Milan Fashion Week events. According to sources, the Versace event planned for Sept. 26 is expected to include a video component.

Meanwhile, Trotter’s runways show for Bottega Veneta is scheduled for Sept. 28 at 5 p.m. CET, slightly earlier than the brand’s usual evening spot, and Bellotti’s for Jil Sander in the morning of Sept. 24.

Missing from the provisional calendar is Marni, now under the lead of Meryll Rogge, named creative director of the OTB-owned brand this month.

Contacted by WWD, a Marni spokesperson said the spring 2026 collection, conceived by the in-house design studio, will be presented to buyers through private showroom appointments.

Rogge’s vision for the Italian brand will be unveiled for the fall 2026 season, with her runway debut planned for February’s Milan Fashion Week.

As reported, Paris Fashion Week is also chockablock with creative directors’ debuts, at Chanel, Balenciaga, Loewe, Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Maison Margiela, Carven, as well as Jonathan Anderson’s seminal womenswear collection for Dior after his menswear debut in June.

As many Italian houses embrace new creative chapters, Armani will mark the 50th anniversary of his business.

Switching its traditional Sunday morning spot for a nighttime runway show on Sept. 28, the Giorgio Armani spring 2026 collection will be exceptionally paraded in the courtyard of honor of Palazzo Brera, the 17th-century landmark home to the Pinacoteca, the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense library and the Brera Academy.

The Pinacoteca di Brera Museum will also host an exhibition retracing five decades of Giorgio Armani fashion through 150 archival looks, marking the first time the cultural institution has hosted a fashion exhibit. As reported, the fashion house will also unveil a digital project called Armani/Archivio on Aug. 30 during the Venice Film Festival filled with a meticulous catalogue of all Giorgio Armani collections to date.

The Giorgio Armani show on Sunday is one of the reasons why Camera della Moda moved the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards up one day to Saturday night from its usual spot.

In addition, the Italian designer, who turned 91 this month, will host two Emporio Armani shows on Sept. 25.

A newcomer to the Milan Fashion Week calendar, London-based Knwls is planning an 8 p.m. show on Sept. 24, as reported, while Indian designer Dhruv Kapoor, who has presented his collections in Milan for the past few years now, traditionally as part of the June and January men’s showcases, is moving to the women’s calendar.

In keeping with their single show per year strategy, The Attico girls Giorgia Tordini and Gilda Ambrosio are staging their third runway display on Sept. 26 and Boss is similarly mounting a show on Sept. 25 for its once-a-year event in Milan.

Other brands coming back to the schedule include Stella Jean, Calcaterra and Federico Cina, while Philipp Plein is currently missing from the lineup.

Fendi is once again mounting a coed show in September designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi, artistic director of accessories and menswear collections, to continue celebrating its centennial. The brand is also facing changes in its creative direction after the departure of Kim Jones last year.

Prada retains its usual 2 p.m. spot on Sept. 25. Among others, Max Mara, Ferrari, Alberta Ferretti and Roberto Cavalli are also not changing their slots.

The closing day, Sept. 29, is dedicated to digital presentations, with Italian brand Meincorp by Lorenzo Sala and Ukrainian brand Nadya Dyzak, formerly showing at London Fashion Week, joining the Milan schedule for the first time.

The Milan Fashion Week’s full schedule, including presentations and events, will be unveiled in September.

WWD

- The September 2025 edition will go from September 23 to 29
- The week will feature several debuts: Dario Vitale for Versace, Simone Bellotti for Jil Sander, Louise Trotter for Bottega Veneta and Demna Gvasilia for Gucci
- KNWLS (Charlotte Knowles) and Dhruv Kapoor will also present their first collection in Milan
- Gucci and Versace have forgone the runway for more lowkey formats
- Marni is absent from the calendar with Rogge's debut being planned for February 2026

 

[Simera]

Milano is usually my favorite, but it seems like it will be a total flop this season.

 

[jeanclaude]

Looking forward for Flopshion Month to begin!!

 

[Benn98]

I've been quietly fascinated with this story about Stockholm Fashion Week, who showed sometime in June after a pause since 2019. How can such a developed country like Sweden operate without a fashion week (maybe their fashion system isnt as developed?). What were Swedish designers and brands up to the entire time? And the idea that it is now being overwhelmingly funded by the Swedish government is so very gauche.

Via Vogue Business

Stockholm Fashion Week is making a comeback​

Six years after it was abruptly cancelled, the Swedish event will return this June — and for the first time, it has government backing. The organisers explain what’s changed.

By Kirsty McGregor
March 31, 2025

Stockholm Fashion Week is relaunching as a fully fledged physical showcase on 2 to 5 June after a six-year hiatus, with backing from the Swedish government.

The industry was shocked when Stockholm Fashion Week was abruptly cancelled — primarily on financial grounds — in July 2019, less than two months before it was due to take place. Since then, there have been some smaller iterations of the fashion week, including some digital editions during 2020 and 2021. Under owner and organiser the Association of Swedish Fashion Brands (ASFB), Stockholm Fashion Week returned to a hybrid physical-online format in 2022, but it was a low-key affair that consisted mostly of studio visits and a few live shows.

Now, Stockholm Fashion Week is being fully rebooted by the ASFB with the aim of offering local fashion talent a platform through which to target international buyers and editors. For the first time, it is backed by the Swedish government through the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (the amount of funding provided has not been disclosed).
There will be a renewed focus on attracting international visitors: participating brands have been invited to curate a hospitality guest list, with the Swedish Institute and Business Sweden enabling a programme for buyers, and Patriksson Group for press. The list of brands and schedule will be announced soon.
As part of the plans, ASFB is launching a programme to support emerging designers to show at fashion week, called STHLMFW Front.

Here, ASFB director John-Jamal Gille shares more on how Stockholm Fashion Week has evolved.

Vogue Business: Tell us about the rebooted Stockholm Fashion Week — what’s changed?

I was hired three years ago to lead Stockholm Fashion Week — I joined in April 2022 and we delivered a fashion week that August. After that, it was very clear that the event needed to be completely restructured.

Something that is changing now is that we do not produce shows for the brands showing on-schedule. It used to all be held in one space, but now we’re helping the brands open up venues that haven’t been used before, or we help them with the teams that they need or any other kind of support that might be useful. And our focus instead is on making sure the international guests in attendance are those that the brands want. Stockholm was always great at consumer-facing PR, at branding and spectacle, but the buyer part was kind of missing.

Vogue Business: Why is this the right time to bring it back?

We have a lot of great brands that need to get out into the world, because Sweden isn’t a big enough market on its own. The options they have right now are Copenhagen, Paris and maybe London or Berlin. Toteme showed in New York, but that was for one season. In Copenhagen, you may have two or three Swedish brands on the schedule; in Paris, even fewer that really get to cut through the noise. ASFB has about 50 members, and there’s not enough slots at other fashion weeks for all of them.

Vogue Business: Scandinavian fashion is often viewed as a unified force. Were there ever discussions with the other Scandi fashion weeks about consolidating into a single event? What makes it important for Sweden to maintain its own distinct fashion platform?

A collaboration with Copenhagen — or Oslo or Helsinki — has been on the table before, from what I understand, and it would be nice if it happened in the future. But we do have a healthy competition when it comes to our own individual industries. There’s no animosity, it’s just that we need to look out for our own economies. Let’s say Sweden has 30, 40 brands that could do great runways and presentations — you only have so many hours in a week. And Denmark is also growing its list of brands that have that same kind of pedigree. All countries have great talent, and these talents need to have platforms where they can be seen and go out into the world.

Vogue Business: How is Stockholm Fashion Week planning to incorporate eco-friendly practices and promote sustainable fashion among participating brands?

We call sustainability a ‘hygiene factor’ nowadays — it is extrinsic to the way Swedish brands operate. For example, Peta emailed us and asked us if we were willing to sign off on a fur or exotic leather ban. And we were like, sure, because no brands do that anymore. It’s preaching to the choir a little bit. So we think that, for fashion week, we don’t have to put a great focus on that subject because our brands already have that ambition. Sustainability is so ingrained in the Swedish fashion industry that if you don’t do it, people will look at you very strangely.

Vogue Business: So you don’t feel there’s a need for minimum sustainability requirements or something along those lines, as they have in Copenhagen?

We feel like that is not a good long-term solution to making sure brands align with the 2030 goals and the textile strategy from Europe. It is very important that sustainability becomes ingrained in our business practices. So we try and exemplify that with another programme we do outside of fashion, which we call Swedish Threads; it brings together design students, sustainability students and economic students to come up with solutions to sustainability problems. We think if you’re going to really try and impact and make a change for sustainable and responsible fashion, it is important that it’s not focused on an event and more so the entire business practice.

Vogue Business: What is your vision for the future of Stockholm Fashion Week?

For us, it’s about producing something that is expected of an international fashion week. The ideas that we’re putting in place aren’t unique in the world, but they’re necessary for Swedish fashion.