Roksanda Ilincic Fall 2026
This season, Roksanda Ilincic decided not to have a show, “but it comes with exciting news,” she said, “and that is that I’m opening a popup in Sloane Street. Next to Chanel and Pucci. It’s amazing. And the space is huge.”
I went to see her in a light-filled penthouse showroom next to the storied Museum of the Home, (set in a series of restored 18th century almshouses) on the Kingsland Road in the East End of London.
Temperley London Fall 2026
For fall 2026, Alice Temperley went straight to Hollywood—old Hollywood. The glossy, smoke-filled, impossibly elegant kind. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich. The icons. “I’m embracing my all-time icons,” she said at a preview, and you could feel that pull toward fantasy, toward drama, toward dressing like life might suddenly turn cinematic.
Khaite Fall 2026
Like it or not (and plenty of people do not), artificial intelligence is not going anywhere. The discourse is loud, the anxiety is real, the creative-industry handwringing is nonstop—but Stacey Bendet? Fully on board. Last season she called the current wave of tech innovation an “inspiration revolution.” This time, she went further and built an entire collection on it, very confidently naming it The Gilded Age.
Alice + Olivia Fall 2026
Like it or not (and plenty of people do not), artificial intelligence is not going anywhere. The discourse is loud, the anxiety is real, the creative-industry handwringing is nonstop—but Stacey Bendet? Fully on board. Last season she called the current wave of tech innovation an “inspiration revolution.” This time, she went further and built an entire collection on it, very confidently naming it The Gilded Age.
Kate Barton Fall 2026
Being one of the few genuinely young, emerging designers on the CFDA calendar already puts Kate Barton ahead of the curve. But this season she leaned into that advantage—hard—especially on the tech front. For her fall 2026 appointments, she skipped the traditional showroom shuffle entirely and turned the whole thing into an experiment in augmented reality and AI. Upstairs, guests scrolled through images of the collection on a model set against an AR backdrop, courtesy of Amazon.
Christian Cowan Fall 2026
It was the night before Valentine’s Day, and Christian Cowan had hearts in his eyes. Like, fully. “I just really, really, really love this collection,” he said, and you could tell he meant it in that slightly stunned way—like he surprised himself. He talked about approaching it differently than anything he’s done before, which, coming from him, feels both dramatic and… kind of brave.
The biggest shift? Time. Actual time. The luxury of not sprinting headfirst into the abyss. Standing in a stairwell in a West Chelsea studio before the show, Cowan admitted it’s never been harder to be a young, independent brand right now, with the cost of everything—production, rent, air, existence—going up, up, up.