The collections that defined the season — runway reports from Milan, Paris, Los Angeles, Dubai and Shanghai, and what is coming next.
Matthieu Blazy takes the house's showcase of its specialist ateliers to Rome on 2 December — a city Gabrielle Chanel returned to again and again.
Seventy-five designer slots, eight shows and up to 80% of production costs covered. Ireland Fashion Week's second edition runs 7–12 October — with no venue, line-up or ticket yet announced.
Four years from a volunteer designer collective to a registered non-profit with a board — and a campaign to have fashion recognised as a fundable art form. 10–16 September.
Drew Henry at Courrèges, Kai Nesselrath at Carven, and Alaïa showing without a creative director. 101 labels, 28 September to 6 October.
Giorgio Armani's show falls days after the first anniversary of his death, Moschino gets new designers, and Versace is conspicuously absent. 22–28 September.
Seán McGirr brings McQueen back to London after twenty-five years in Paris, Christopher Kane debuts at Mulberry, and M&S walks a runway for the first time. 17–21 September.
From a Chelsea office that found Kate Moss to a Copenhagen house built on an ethics charter — the agencies that decide who walks, and the fight over who owns a face.
Every other mega-house took Cruise 2027 west. Max Mara marked its 75th birthday in a brutalist Shanghai museum, with an entirely Asian cast and a coat as the argument.
The Italian house opened Dubai Fashion Week with its first full runway show in the Middle East — and Lorenzo Serafini made the case for creativity as a commercial argument.
Vintage Cadillacs, Philip Treacy hats and a show staged as a film script — the Magherafelt designer took Dior to Los Angeles and made it personal.
Cranes rising from an iridescent floor, tweed rebuilt as workwear, and Matthieu Blazy treating a 116-year-old house as a building site.
Plaster gods, a Botticelli gown and Kate Moss in diamonds — Demna's first Gucci runway asked to be felt rather than decoded.
Pasolini read aloud in the dark by Pamela Anderson, a kinetic sky of light overhead, and a Valentino stripped back to its essentials.
Fifteen models, four passes each, sixty looks — and a collection that undressed itself in public. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons in Milan.