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October 2026

JW Anderson14 OCT JW Anderson's Frieze week exhibition 'A Composition' at its Pimlico Road store, 15-21 Oct 2026 6 BEATSRead Archive14 OCT Missoni at the Pitti Palace, April 1967 5 BEATSRead Marc Jacobs14 OCT Emily Vannucci George returns to Marc Jacobs as G-III Apparel Group's president of direct-to-consumer 5 BEATSRead Archive14 OCT Sonia Rykiel's Poor Boy sweater 6 BEATSRead Huxley14 OCT Kim Jones appoints Huxley to represent him individually 5 BEATSRead Archive14 OCT The Adidas Stan Smith began as the Robert Haillet 6 BEATSRead Golden Goose14 OCT Golden Goose hires Giorgio Belloli, Burberry's former chief digital, customer and innovation officer 6 BEATSRead Archive · Paris14 OCT Kenzo Takada's first Paris shop, Jungle Jap, 1970 6 BEATSRead Burberry14 OCT Frasers Group's Burberry position rises to 7.42% (TR-1 published 12 Oct 2026, threshold crossed 8 Oct) 7 BEATSRead Archive14 OCT Elsa Schiaparelli's 1927 trompe l'oeil bow-knot sweater 6 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Van Cleef & Arpels' Mystery Set 6 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Nike's Air Max 1, 1987, and the Centre Pompidou 5 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Norman Hartnell's 1953 coronation gown for Elizabeth II 5 BEATSRead Dunhill · AW27 · Florence13 OCT Dunhill named guest designer at Pitti Immagine Uomo 111 (announced 13 Oct 2026) 5 BEATSRead Archive · New York13 OCT Tiffany Blue: opened 1837 as a fancy-goods store; the colour on the 1845 Blue Book 5 BEATSRead Le Bon Marché13 OCT Le Bon Marché's first women's fashion auction 6 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Bottega Veneta's intrecciato 6 BEATSRead LVMH13 OCT LVMH's nine-month revenue to September 2026 (release 12 Oct 2026) 9 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Emilio Pucci: a nobleman who signed his clothes Emilio because working as a dressmaker was shocking 6 BEATSRead CFDA13 OCT The CFDA names Hildy Kuryk, Vogue's executive director of communications 2013-2017 8 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy, 1953 6 BEATSRead Enfants Riches Déprimés · SS27 · Paris13 OCT Enfants Riches Déprimés and Henri Alexander Levy 10 BEATSRead Archive13 OCT Moncler's start: founded 1952 in Monestier-de-Clermont, named for the town 5 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Elsa Peretti's Bone cuff for Tiffany 6 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Alexander McQueen's bumster trousers came from Taxi Driver, autumn-winter 1993 6 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Biba's 1964 pink gingham dress for the Daily Mirror 6 BEATSRead LVMH · Paris12 OCT LVMH and Kering's joint model charter raises the minimum age for models representing adults to 18 from 16 9 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Mercedes Gleitze and the Rolex Oyster, 1927 6 BEATSRead Kim Jones · AW2712 OCT Kim Jones launches a label under his own name again (announced 12 Oct 2026) 8 BEATSRead Valentino · Milan12 OCT Karim Zebdji, Saint Laurent's worldwide PR director 6 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara's A-POC, A Piece of Cloth, from 1998 5 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Louis Vuitton's 1886 tumbler lock 6 BEATSRead Saint Laurent12 OCT Anthony Vaccarello leaves Saint Laurent after ten years (confirmed 9 Oct 2026) 10 BEATSRead Archive12 OCT Pierre Cardin's 1959 ready-to-wear at Printemps got him expelled from the Chambre Syndicale, then reinstated 5 BEATSRead Archive · Paris11 OCT Thierry Mugler's 1984 show at the Zénith, a Paris concert hall, for his label's tenth anniversary 5 BEATSRead Archive11 OCT Louboutin's red sole 6 BEATSRead Archive11 OCT Mainbocher and Wallis Simpson's 1937 wedding dress 7 BEATSRead Archive11 OCT Ferragamo's Rainbow sandal, 1938, made with Judy Garland in mind 6 BEATSRead SS27 · Paris11 OCT Weekly Roundup, w/e 11 October 2026 10 BEATSRead Archive11 OCT Ralph Lauren began in 1967 with men's neckties at 28, at the tie maker Beau Brummel, naming the line Polo 5 BEATSRead Archive · London10 OCT Elizabeth Hurley's Versace safety-pin dress at the 1994 London premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral 6 BEATSRead Archive · Paris10 OCT Cristóbal Balenciaga's Spanish start 6 BEATSRead Archive10 OCT Paco Rabanne's 1966 debut, Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials 5 BEATSRead Mary McFadden10 OCT Woodmere Art Museum's Mary McFadden Lending Library 6 BEATSRead Archive10 OCT Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking 4 BEATSRead Air Jordan10 OCT Jordan Brand's Space Jam 30th anniversary collection from 5 November 7 BEATSRead Archive · Paris10 OCT The Hermès Birkin's origin 6 BEATSRead Hainan duty free10 OCT China's Golden Week, 1 to 7 October 2026, in numbers 6 BEATSRead Archive10 OCT Lesage: Albert Lesage takes over Michonet's embroidery workshop in 1924 5 BEATSRead Archive9 OCT Schiaparelli and Dalí's Lobster Dress, 1937 6 BEATSRead Archive9 OCT Dior's New Look, 12 February 1947 6 BEATSRead Ebel9 OCT Chanel and F.P.Journe's Montres Journe buy 95% of Swiss watch brand Ebel from Movado for $66.5 million 7 BEATSRead Archive9 OCT The Chanel 2.55: named for February 1955; burgundy lining for the orphanage uniforms 5 BEATSRead Archive9 OCT The Hermès silk carré 6 BEATSRead Christian Dior SE9 OCT Christian Dior SE, the listed company holding the Arnault family's LVMH stake, to be renamed Agache 8 BEATSRead Chanel · SS278 OCT Chanel SS27 by Matthieu Blazy at the Grand Palais, a year after his debut 7 BEATSRead Lacoste · SS278 OCT Lacoste's chief executive Éric Vallat leaves a year into the job, days before the SS27 show 7 BEATSRead Archive8 OCT Martin Margiela's anonymity 6 BEATSRead Archive · New York8 OCT Azzedine Alaïa showed when ready, off the official calendar, at rue de Moussy 6 BEATSRead Archive · New York8 OCT Helmut Lang shows fall 1998 online and on CD-ROM instead of a runway, 81 looks, hailed as the first 6 BEATSRead Archive8 OCT Margiela's Tabi boot 6 BEATSRead Kiko Kostadinov · SS278 OCT Kiko Kostadinov SS27 by Deanna and Laura Fanning 5 BEATSRead Lionel Messi8 OCT Lionel Messi's last match for Argentina on 6 October 6 BEATSRead Archive8 OCT The Antwerp Six's March 1986 van trip to the British Designer Show at Olympia 7 BEATSRead Frasers Group · Paris8 OCT Frasers Group Luxury launched 5 Oct during Paris Fashion Week 9 BEATSRead Archive7 OCT Loewe: founded in Madrid in 1846 by a collective of leather artisans, the second-oldest luxury fashion house 6 BEATSRead Zimmermann · SS277 OCT Zimmermann SS27: butterflies from the 19th-century drawings of Australian illustrators Harriet 5 BEATSRead Archive7 OCT Issey Miyake's Pleats Please 5 BEATSRead Gabriela Hearst · SS277 OCT Gabriela Hearst SS27 made with artisans in Afghanistan through Turquoise Mountain 6 BEATSRead Archive7 OCT Cristóbal Balenciaga closes his couture house in 1968 aged 74, abruptly 6 BEATSRead Sacai · SS277 OCT Sacai SS27: Chitose Abe's tassels where epaulettes go on military jackets; two sides of people 5 BEATSRead Archive · Paris7 OCT Schiaparelli's shocking pink and the Shocking perfume, 1937 6 BEATSRead Louis Vuitton · SS27 · Paris7 OCT Louis Vuitton SS27 closes Paris 7 BEATSRead Archive7 OCT Lanvin's logo is Jeanne Lanvin and her daughter Marguerite at a 1907 costume ball, drawn by Paul Iribe; Elbaz 6 BEATSRead Aje · SS277 OCT Aje SS27 'Unfurled' at the Collège des Bernardins 7 BEATSRead Polo Ralph Lauren · SS27 · Paris6 OCT Polo Ralph Lauren SS27 in Paris 6 BEATSRead Niccolò Pasqualetti · SS276 OCT Niccolò Pasqualetti SS27 5 BEATSRead Mugler · SS276 OCT Mugler SS27: performance artist Alexis Stone in the front row made up as Manfred Thierry Mugler 7 BEATSRead Lanvin · SS276 OCT Lanvin SS27 by Peter Copping 6 BEATSRead Victoria Beckham · SS276 OCT Victoria Beckham SS27 6 BEATSRead Yohji Yamamoto · SS275 OCT Yohji Yamamoto SS27 6 BEATSRead Chanel5 OCT Virginie Viard's book Un regard. Une vie chez Chanel (Stock) 6 BEATSRead Lacoste · SS275 OCT Lacoste SS27 on the Philippe-Chatrier court at Roland-Garros 6 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Jean Paul Gaultier 6 BEATSRead Jean Paul Gaultier · SS275 OCT Jean Paul Gaultier SS27 by Duran Lantink 6 BEATSRead Archive · Paris5 OCT Miu Miu: named for Miuccia Prada's nickname; launched in 1993 with a cowgirl collection 5 BEATSRead Valentino · SS275 OCT Valentino SS27 by Alessandro Michele in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève 6 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Valentino red: a teenage Valentino Garavani sees a woman in red velvet at Carmen in Barcelona 6 BEATSRead Miu Miu · SS275 OCT Miu Miu SS27: Olivia Colman, Jamie Bell and Emma Corrin walk; Miuccia Prada brings elegance to sportswear 6 BEATSRead Archive · Paris5 OCT Sacai: Chitose Abe's five hand-knitted pieces in 1999; leaving work in 1997 when her daughter was born 6 BEATSRead Noir Kei Ninomiya · SS275 OCT Noir Kei Ninomiya SS27, petal rebellion 6 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Chanel at the Grand Palais under Karl Lagerfeld 5 BEATSRead Ann Demeulemeester · SS275 OCT Ann Demeulemeester SS27, Lonesome Heaven 8 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Audrey Hepburn and the Louis Vuitton Speedy 25 6 BEATSRead Naomi Campbell · Paris5 OCT Naomi Campbell rides a Lime e-bike through Paris traffic on Saturday 3 October 6 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Louis Vuitton's Monogram at 130 6 BEATSRead Archive5 OCT Chanel No. 5 photo reel 7 BEATSRead SS27 · Paris4 OCT Weekly Roundup, w/e 4 October 2026 10 BEATSRead Vivienne Westwood · SS274 OCT Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood SS27 at the Palais de la Femme 7 BEATSRead Junya Watanabe · SS274 OCT Junya Watanabe SS27, Funky 7 BEATSRead Archive4 OCT How Balenciaga's couture travelled in the 1950s 5 BEATSRead Comme des Garçons · SS274 OCT Comme des Garçons SS27 7 BEATSRead Archive4 OCT Yves Saint Laurent's first Dior collection, the Trapeze line, 30 January 1958, at 21 6 BEATSRead Hermès · SS274 OCT Hermès SS27 by Nadège Vanhée at the Garde Républicaine 7 BEATSRead Archive4 OCT Chanel No. 5: Beaux's fifth sample in 1921, the plain bottle, the 1924 company with the Wertheimers 7 BEATSRead Celine · SS274 OCT Celine SS27 by Michael Rider under a thatched roof at the Archives Nationales 7 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Thierry Mugler's costumes for Beyoncé's I Am... World Tour, opened Edmonton 26 March 2009 5 BEATSRead Naomi Campbell3 OCT Naomi Campbell wins her appeal against the five-year charity trustee ban over Fashion For Relief 8 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Thierry Mugler's 20th-anniversary couture show at the Cirque d'Hiver, 1995 7 BEATSRead Issey Miyake · SS27 · Paris3 OCT Issey Miyake SS27 at the Dojo de Paris 5 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Jane Birkin's original Birkin bag 8 BEATSRead Loewe · SS273 OCT Loewe SS27 at the Château de Vincennes 6 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Vivienne Westwood's Pirate, her first catwalk show, 1981 at Olympia with Malcolm McLaren 6 BEATSRead Yeezy · Los Angeles3 OCT Yeezy x Mowalola Kitty underwear (KP-01 panty, KS-01 short) back in stock on yeezy.com 6 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT The Hermès Kelly: Robert Dumas's 1930s Sac à dépêches from the Haut à courroies 7 BEATSRead Rabanne · SS27 · Paris3 OCT Rabanne absent from the Paris SS27 calendar 6 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Madonna's Gaultier cone corsets on the Blond Ambition tour, 13 April to 5 August 1990 9 BEATSRead Aeffe3 OCT Aeffe, owner of Moschino, Alberta Ferretti and Pollini 7 BEATSRead Archive3 OCT Celine's founding in 1945 as a children's shoe shop at 52 rue Malte; the 1960s move to womenswear 7 BEATSRead Alaïa · SS273 OCT Alaïa SS27 presented by the house studio on 3 October with no creative director 7 BEATSRead Archive · Paris3 OCT Rei Kawakubo's 1981 Paris debut for Comme des Garçons, called Hiroshima chic 8 BEATSRead Givenchy · SS272 OCT Givenchy SS27 by Sarah Burton 5 BEATSRead Casablanca · SS272 OCT Casablanca SS27 at Espace Niemeyer, the French Communist Party headquarters near Belleville where Charaf... 6 BEATSRead Schiaparelli · SS272 OCT Schiaparelli SS27 by Daniel Roseberry 6 BEATSRead Rick Owens · SS272 OCT Rick Owens SS27 at the Palais de Tokyo 8 BEATSRead Archive2 OCT Jacqueline Kennedy at the 1961 inauguration 7 BEATSRead Balenciaga · SS272 OCT Balenciaga SS27 by Pierpaolo Piccioli 5 BEATSRead Archive2 OCT Michelle Obama's 2009 inaugural gown by Jason Wu, 26 6 BEATSRead Vaquera · SS272 OCT Vaquera SS27: DiCaprio and Taubensee sing I Got You Babe; 1920s-30s uniforms, chef, maid, waiter 7 BEATSRead Chloé · SS272 OCT Chloé SS27 Obsession by Chemena Kamali 9 BEATSRead Archive2 OCT Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday dress, 19 May 1962 5 BEATSRead Acne Studios · SS272 OCT Acne Studios SS27 Denim Hystoria at the Collège des Bernardins 9 BEATSRead Archive2 OCT Audrey Hepburn's black Givenchy dress from Breakfast at Tiffany's 5 BEATSRead Archive2 OCT Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour, 2023 6 BEATSRead Chanel2 OCT Chanel takes Blazy's Cruise 2027/28 to Deauville on 27 April 2027 5 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Diana's Travolta dress 5 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Virgil Abloh, born 30 September 1980 8 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Pierre Balmain, 1945 6 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Grace Kelly's wedding dress, 19 April 1956 5 BEATSRead Dries Van Noten · SS271 OCT Dries Van Noten SS27 5 BEATSRead Balmain · SS271 OCT Balmain SS27: Antonin Tron's second collection at Lagerfeld's former home 6 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dresses, 6 August 1965 5 BEATSRead Tom Ford · SS271 OCT Tom Ford SS27: Haider Ackermann's show in a mirrored room, pinstripes, black leather 6 BEATSRead Courrèges · SS271 OCT Courrèges SS27: Drew Henry's first collection, 50 looks at the Palais de Tokyo 7 BEATSRead Stella McCartney · Paris1 OCT Stella McCartney Summer 2027 6 BEATSRead Archive1 OCT Margot Robbie's 761-hour gold Chanel by Matthieu Blazy, Met Gala, 4 May 2026 5 BEATSRead Zara1 OCT Galliano's first Zara collection, Re(form), goes on sale 1 October 9 BEATSRead

September 2026

Archive30 SEP Beyoncé's crystal-skeleton Met Gala gown by Olivier Rousteing, 4 May 2026 4 BEATSRead Condé Nast30 SEP Roger Lynch leaves Condé Nast for Mattel 8 BEATSRead Archive30 SEP Raf Simons's July 2012 Dior debut in five rooms of flowers by Mark Colle 5 BEATSRead Archive30 SEP Yves Saint Laurent's 1991 all-gold Rive Gauche finale 5 BEATSRead Maison Margiela · SS2730 SEP Maison Margiela SS27 10 BEATSRead Dior · SS2730 SEP Dior SS27: Jonathan Anderson dedicates the Tuileries show to Mathilde Favier, the house's PR director 9 BEATSRead Saint Laurent · SS2730 SEP Saint Laurent SS27 9 BEATSRead Archive · London29 SEP Dior's first collection, 12 February 1947 6 BEATSRead Matières Fécales · SS2729 SEP Matières Fécales SS27, The Ninety-Nine Percent 10 BEATSRead Archive29 SEP Courrèges before Drew Henry's first show 6 BEATSRead Archive · Paris28 SEP Carven, founded in 1945 by a couturier 1.55 metres tall who dressed petite women 6 BEATSRead Hodakova · SS27 · Paris28 SEP Hodakova SS27 in Paris 8 BEATSRead Julie Kegels · SS27 · Paris28 SEP Julie Kegels SS27, Apple of the Day 10 BEATSRead Archive · Paris28 SEP The LVMH Prize: 400,000 euros, the rules, the last four winners by date 7 BEATSRead Camper · Paris28 SEP Camper reopens its Opéra store in Paris, redesigned by Piovenefabi 10 BEATSRead Paris Fashion Week · SS27 · Paris28 SEP Paris Fashion Week SS27, the official calendar day by day 9 BEATSRead Paris Fashion Week · SS27 · Paris28 SEP Paris Fashion Week SS27 opens 9 BEATSRead SS27 · Milan27 SEP Weekly Roundup, w/e 27 September 2026 10 BEATSRead Archive27 SEP American Gigolo, 1980 6 BEATSRead Archive27 SEP Bottega Veneta's 1978 Warhol advert, 'When your own initials are enough' 8 BEATSRead Bottega Veneta · SS2726 SEP Bottega Veneta SS27 7 BEATSRead Archive26 SEP Lee Miller, the photographer behind Ferragamo's spring 2027 show 7 BEATSRead Archive · Paris26 SEP Yves Saint Laurent opened Saint Laurent Rive Gauche at 21 rue de Tournon on 26 September 1966 7 BEATSRead Archive26 SEP Robots have walked fashion runways since McQueen's 1999 spray-painting arms 7 BEATSRead Archive · Paris26 SEP Naomi Campbell fell on Vivienne Westwood's Paris runway in 1993 in the Super Elevated Gillie platforms 7 BEATSRead Archive26 SEP Salvatore Ferragamo's 1947 nylon-thread sandal, the F-shaped sole, the Neiman Marcus Award 7 BEATSRead Archive · Paris25 SEP Chanel's 1954 comeback was met with silence in Paris 7 BEATSRead Moschino · SS2725 SEP Moschino SS27: Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo's first collection for the house 9 BEATSRead Archive25 SEP Steve Jobs's black turtleneck was by Issey Miyake 7 BEATSRead Gucci · SS27 · Milan25 SEP Gucci SS27 in Milan, The Store Show 10 BEATSRead Archive25 SEP Karl Lagerfeld designed for Fendi for 54 years, from 1965 until his death in 2019 7 BEATSRead Emporio Armani · SS2725 SEP Emporio Armani SS27, Traces of Time 10 BEATSRead Marni · SS27 · Milan25 SEP Marni SS27 in Milan 10 BEATSRead Max Mara · SS27 · Milan25 SEP Max Mara SS27 in Milan, Far Horizon 10 BEATSRead Archive · London25 SEP Gucci began with Guccio Gucci working as a porter at the Savoy Hotel in London 6 BEATSRead Archive24 SEP Prada's founder barred the women of his family from the business in 1913 7 BEATSRead Vogue World24 SEP Robots on a fashion runway 10 BEATSRead Off-White · Milan24 SEP Kid Cudi performed at Off-White's 10x10 party in Milan, the project reworking Virgil Abloh's icons 10 BEATSRead MM6 Maison Margiela · SS27 · Milan24 SEP MM6 Maison Margiela SS27 in Milan 10 BEATSRead Etro · SS27 · Milan24 SEP Etro SS27 in Milan, called Halo 10 BEATSRead Fendi · SS27 · Milan24 SEP Fendi SS27 in Milan 10 BEATSRead Jil Sander · SS27 · Milan24 SEP Jil Sander SS27 in Milan 10 BEATSRead Off-White23 SEP Off-White 10x10: ten archive pieces handed to ten outside creatives 10 BEATSRead Vogue World23 SEP Vogue World Milano, the fifth edition 10 BEATSRead Prada · SS27 · Milan23 SEP Prada SS27 in Milan 10 BEATSRead Archive · London22 SEP Ottavio Missoni ran in the 1948 Olympic 400 metres hurdles final in London 7 BEATSRead Diesel · SS2722 SEP Diesel SS27, Glenn Martens' last collection 9 BEATSRead Archive22 SEP Google built Image Search because of one Versace dress 7 BEATSRead Elijah Aike · SS2722 SEP Elijah Aike made the runway soundtrack for Mowalola SS27 (Season 10), closing on his own song End of Life 10 BEATSRead Patrick McDowell · SS27 · London22 SEP Patrick McDowell SS27 Love at London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) · Milan22 SEP What CNMI's own 203-appointment count for Milan's September 2026 women's week actually breaks down into 10 BEATSRead Kai Ghattaura and Fin Forsyth · London21 SEP Kai Ghattaura and Fin Forsyth's Glister 10 BEATSRead Paolo Carzana · SS27 · London21 SEP Paolo Carzana SS27 at St Cuthbert's, London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead Aaron Esh · SS27 · London21 SEP Aaron Esh SS27 at the Electric Ballroom, London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead KNWLS · SS27 · London21 SEP KNWLS SS27 Chambre Close at London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead TOGA · SS27 · London21 SEP TOGA SS27 at London Fashion Week, Acclimatisation Adaptation Liberation 10 BEATSRead 5000 · SS2721 SEP 5000 by Taylor Thompson, LFW debut SS27 10 BEATSRead McQueen · SS27 · London21 SEP McQueen SS27 Angels in the Dark at Lincoln's Inn Chapel 10 BEATSRead Prada / Dsquared2 / Armani / Bulgari / 10 Corso Como / Trussardi · Milan21 SEP Milan's fashion houses own the restaurants, cafes and bars where fashion week eats 9 BEATSRead London Fashion Week · London21 SEP London Fashion Week official schedule, Monday 21 September 2026 4 BEATSRead Pauline Dujancourt · SS2720 SEP Pauline Dujancourt SS27 the Bitter Tears 10 BEATSRead Rory William Docherty · SS2720 SEP Rory William Docherty SS27, What Ties Us Together 10 BEATSRead Simone Rocha · SS2720 SEP Simone Rocha SS27 at the Old Bailey 10 BEATSRead AMIRI · London20 SEP AMIRI's first London store, 123-124 New Bond Street 10 BEATSRead Ahluwalia · SS2720 SEP Ahluwalia SS27 Revel 10 BEATSRead Chopova Lowena · SS27 · London20 SEP Chopova Lowena's SS27 show on a London bowling alley 9 BEATSRead Richard Quinn · SS27 · London20 SEP Richard Quinn's SS27 show at London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead Archive · London20 SEP The V&A stayed open all night for the first time in its history for Alexander McQueen 7 BEATSRead Mulberry · London20 SEP Mulberry's own FY26 accounts restated FY25's reported loss before tax from £31.8 million to £32.2 million 10 BEATSRead London Fashion Week · London20 SEP London Fashion Week official schedule, Sunday 20 September 2026 5 BEATSRead Archive20 SEP The Kate Moss 'hologram' at Alexander McQueen's 2006 show was not a hologram 7 BEATSRead Dreaming Eli · SS2719 SEP Dreaming Eli SS27, Dreamers in Exile 10 BEATSRead Johanna Parv · SS2719 SEP Johanna Parv SS27, TEMPO at 180 Studios 10 BEATSRead Geordie Campbell · SS27 · London19 SEP Geordie Campbell SS27, 15 Steps 10 BEATSRead Annie's Ibiza · SS27 · London19 SEP Annie's Ibiza Nocturne 10 BEATSRead John Richmond · SS2719 SEP John Richmond SS27, White Light, White Heat, at St Martin-in-the-Fields 10 BEATSRead H&M · SS27 · London19 SEP H&M's London Fashion Week SS27 slot showed Autumn 2026 and sold the first drop the same night 10 BEATSRead Diesel · SS2619 SEP Glenn Martens leaves Diesel after six years 10 BEATSRead Mowalola19 SEP Mowalola x Air Jordan 14 10 BEATSRead Bora Aksu · SS27 · London19 SEP Bora Aksu's SS27 show at London Fashion Week 9 BEATSRead Archive · London19 SEP Mark Fast's 2009 London show cast three models between a UK size 12 and 14 and cost him two of his team 7 BEATSRead Archive19 SEP The Mallory tweed myth, tested 8 BEATSRead Archive18 SEP Priya Ahluwalia followed British castoffs from a Lagos market to Panipat, photographed the shredding 7 BEATSRead British Fashion Council18 SEP The British Fashion Council's chair handover and the arithmetic inside the BFC 2030 growth plan 9 BEATSRead Archive18 SEP Richard Quinn spent his fifty thousand euro student prize on an open access print works under the Peckham... 7 BEATSRead Jenn Lee · SS27 · London18 SEP Jenn Lee's SS27 show at London Fashion Week, seen firsthand 10 BEATSRead Petra Fagerström · SS2718 SEP Petra Fagerström's lenticular pleating, the hand-sewn technique behind her SS27 catwalk 10 BEATSRead Archive18 SEP Chopova Lowena's carabiner skirt was written off by early buyers, and it became the label's best selling piece 7 BEATSRead AGRO Studio · SS27 · London18 SEP AGRO Studio's SS27 collection Glass Body at London Fashion Week 10 BEATSRead H&M · London18 SEP PETA protesters interrupt H&M's London Fashion Week show over a wool-cruelty claim 10 BEATSRead Alexander McQueen · Paris18 SEP McQueen's London runway record since the 2001 move to Paris 9 BEATSRead London Fashion Week · London18 SEP London Fashion Week official schedule, Friday 18 September 2026 6 BEATSRead London Fashion Week · London17 SEP London Fashion Week day one, every show that walked 9 BEATSRead Mithridate · SS27 · London17 SEP Mithridate SS27 at London Fashion Week 6 BEATSRead Mark Fast · SS27 · London17 SEP Mark Fast SS27 at London Fashion Week 7 BEATSRead Maximilian Raynor · SS27 · London17 SEP Maximilian Raynor SS27, 'A Village Green Rivalry,' London Fashion Week 6 BEATSRead Francesca Lake · SS27 · London17 SEP Francesca Lake's SS27 NEWGEN debut on the official London Fashion Week schedule 8 BEATSRead Keburia · SS27 · London17 SEP George Keburia's SS27 show at London Fashion Week (Guram from Freedom Square) 7 BEATSRead Paul Costelloe · SS27 · London17 SEP Paul Costelloe SS27 opened London Fashion Week 9 BEATSRead Diesel17 SEP Diesel's Only Desire was developed with L'Oréal 5 BEATSRead The Fashion Calendar · New York17 SEP Ruth Finley and the Fashion Calendar, the archive behind New York Fashion Week's schedule 10 BEATSRead London Fashion Week · London17 SEP London Fashion Week official schedule, Thursday 17 September 2026 5 BEATSRead AllSaints16 SEP AllSaints under Aaron Esh, from the room at The Ram launch 8 BEATSRead AllSaints16 SEP AllSaints under Aaron Esh 7 BEATSRead Matières Fécales16 SEP Gabbriette married Matty Healy in a Matières Fécales gown, a label whose name is French for fecal matter 6 BEATSRead Schiaparelli16 SEP The V&A's 1927 Schiaparelli bow-knot sweater was made in 1971, and the museum's own label says so 8 BEATSRead Louis Vuitton16 SEP The Louis Vuitton brand is carried in LVMH's 2025 accounts at 2,060 million euros against Tiffany's 6,213... 10 BEATSRead Vince15 SEP Vince runs Drake's OVO on a licence from Authentic, the same arrangement it has run its own name on since 2023 10 BEATSRead Tibi · SS2715 SEP Tibi Spring 2027 referenced Dolly Parton, who died on 25 August 2026, and walked to I Will Always Love You 10 BEATSRead Archive · Paris15 SEP Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress is pieced, not printed 7 BEATSRead Michael Kors · SS2715 SEP Michael Kors showed Spring 2027 in MoMA's sculpture garden 10 BEATSRead Archive15 SEP Norma Kamali was granted three US design patents for high-heeled sneakers on 14 January 1986 8 BEATSRead Archive15 SEP Hermès's Active Partner, the family-controlled Émile Hermès SAS 8 BEATSRead Archive15 SEP Dior signed an exclusivity contract with the Rodin museum in 2011 for four shows 6 BEATSRead Magda Butrym · SS27 · New York14 SEP Magda Butrym's New York runway debut for Spring 2027 layered aprons over slips and referenced Natalia LL 10 BEATSRead Archive · Milan14 SEP Loro Piana audited a jacket contractor with no factory and the audit sheet didn't check 10 BEATSRead Christian Siriano · SS27 · Paris14 SEP Christian Siriano Spring 2027 went from laser-cut black to tapestry on a French fairy tale that Andrew Lang... 10 BEATSRead Archive14 SEP Christian Dior gave the V&A a Bar suit its record dates as possibly made 1955 6 BEATSRead Khaite · SS2714 SEP Khaite opened Spring 2027 on a white bra and handmade corsetry 9 BEATSRead Archive14 SEP Lanvin Group wrote the Lanvin brand down by 66.7 million euros 6 BEATSRead Calvin Klein · SS2714 SEP Calvin Klein Collection Spring 2027 looked to Georgia O'Keeffe's wardrobe 10 BEATSRead Archive14 SEP Gucci's Brussels fine was halved for cooperation 7 BEATSRead Armani14 SEP Armani's fine from Italy's competition authority was set at 5 million euros 10 BEATSRead Archive14 SEP Tiffany won $21 million from Costco, then an appeal court sent it back to a jury because the word Tiffany... 5 BEATSRead Archive14 SEP Dior's New Look was suspected in the Commons of drawing extra ration coupons 5 BEATSRead Archive12 SEP Liberty has put the Bayeux Tapestry on Tana Lawn, and it is not a tapestry 5 BEATSRead Archive12 SEP Ralph Lauren's horseman has been in court since 1984, and a mark cleared on shirts was barred on fragrance 5 BEATSRead Archive10 SEP The Washington Post ran Prada's 1996 collection under the headline Plug Ugly 6 BEATSRead Archive8 SEP Charles James built a ten pound ball gown you could waltz in 6 BEATSRead Archive7 SEP Madeleine Vionnet signed every dress with her thumbprint 5 BEATSRead Archive7 SEP Mainbocher designed the US Navy WAVES uniform for free, then the Navy sold his name to recruits 6 BEATSRead Archive7 SEP What Chanel actually bought from Lesage was a 75,000-piece embroidery archive 6 BEATSRead Archive7 SEP Paul Poiret named his perfume and interiors companies after his daughters, then lost everything 6 BEATSRead Archive7 SEP Halston sold his name for 16 million dollars. Eleven years later it fired him 6 BEATSRead Archive6 SEP Merce Cunningham put the Comme des Garcons lumps on stage 5 BEATSRead Archive · Paris6 SEP The ugliest show in Paris became the show fashion never stopped quoting 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP The taxman gets every penny. The designers get 15p in the pound 5 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP The 270 million pound invoice fashion has to eat 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP Harvey Nichols owes Victoria Beckham a third of a million pounds 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP Balenciaga, 'the master of us all' 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP Schiaparelli and Dali put a lobster on a dress 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP The Hermes Kelly, named by the public 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP Iris van Herpen made a dress out of plasma 6 BEATSRead Archive5 SEP Jonathan Anderson holds all of Dior 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP Burton was McQueen's hidden hand 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP They said a musician couldn't design. He still runs Louis Vuitton menswear 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP The American who still draws couture by hand 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP Pieter Mulier: the deputy who kept becoming the boss 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP He wears the same grey suit every day. It built an empire 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP The Californian outsider who made fashion political and won 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP Chanel quietly owns the hands the rest of fashion rents 6 BEATSRead Archive4 SEP Fashion put Rick Owens in a museum while he is still working 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP The collection that got Marc Jacobs fired became a landmark 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP Two of fashion's sharpest minds share one studio, on purpose 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP Gaultier handed his couture to an Irish romantic, and she stole it 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP Phoebe Philo came back with no shows and no explaining 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP The designer who turned underwear into eveningwear 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP She won fashion's big young-talent prize on old clothes 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP The designer who refuses to explain herself built an empire 6 BEATSRead Archive3 SEP He turns denim and army surplus into engineering 6 BEATSRead Archive2 SEP She splices two garments into one, and nobody can copy it 6 BEATSRead Archive2 SEP The designer who dressed the world in black on purpose 6 BEATSRead Archive2 SEP The American designer who made colour a superpower 6 BEATSRead Archive2 SEP The woman quietly shaping how men dress 6 BEATSRead Archive1 SEP He invented 90s cool, then walked away to make art 6 BEATSRead

July 2026

Archive28 JUL He puts plywood on the runway and calls it menswear 6 BEATSRead Archive24 JUL The maximalist they wrote off just got a second empire 6 BEATSRead Archive17 JUL Chloe's boho comeback was an inside job 6 BEATSRead Archive16 JUL Bottega's first woman, sixty years in 6 BEATSRead Archive16 JUL Lagerfeld picked him. It took fourteen years 6 BEATSRead Archive15 JUL Celine's new boss hid inside it for a decade 6 BEATSRead Archive15 JUL Blazy makes leather lie for a living 6 BEATSRead Archive13 JUL Margiela: the house that still hides the face 6 BEATSRead Archive13 JUL Piccioli reminded the room what Balenciaga means 6 BEATSRead Archive12 JUL Demna at Gucci: the man they wrote off 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUL The 3-euro parcel fee that ends the free border 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUL Who Duran Lantink is 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUL Couture's naked thesis 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUL What silk gazar is (and why Piccioli used it) 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUL The Great Designer Reset, explained 6 BEATSRead Archive10 JUL YSL's Le Smoking: a tuxedo for women 6 BEATSRead Archive10 JUL Dior's New Look, named by an editor 6 BEATSRead Archive10 JUL The Chanel 2.55, named for its birth date 6 BEATSRead Archive10 JUL The Birkin: a bag sketched on a plane 6 BEATSRead Archive9 JUL The Mary Jane shoe is named after a comic character 4 BEATSRead Archive9 JUL The pea coat takes its name from Dutch cloth 4 BEATSRead Archive9 JUL The Chelsea boot was made for Queen Victoria 4 BEATSRead Archive9 JUL Argyle comes off a clan tartan 4 BEATSRead Archive8 JUL Paisley is named after a Scottish town 4 BEATSRead Archive8 JUL The Breton stripe began as a navy uniform 4 BEATSRead Archive8 JUL The stiletto heel is named after a dagger 4 BEATSRead Archive8 JUL The tuxedo is named after a town 4 BEATSRead Archive8 JUL The Converse All Star got its signature 17 years late 6 BEATSRead Archive7 JUL Balenciaga banned the press and was revered anyway 6 BEATSRead Archive7 JUL Halston's Ultrasuede shirtdress sold 60,000 in a season 6 BEATSRead Archive7 JUL The Gucci Bamboo bag was born of a leather shortage 6 BEATSRead Archive7 JUL Diane von Furstenberg's wrap dress sold a million in two years 6 BEATSRead Archive7 JUL Mary Quant named the miniskirt after her car 6 BEATSRead Archive6 JUL Dior did not name the New Look, a magazine editor did 6 BEATSRead Archive6 JUL Schiaparelli named a colour Shocking in 1937 4 BEATSRead Archive6 JUL Vicuna is the most expensive legal wool 4 BEATSRead Archive6 JUL Bespoke means the cloth was spoken for 4 BEATSRead Archive6 JUL The grenadine tie is a weave, not a print 4 BEATSRead Archive5 JUL Shell cordovan is horse, and each hide gives only two 4 BEATSRead Archive5 JUL Fair Isle knit was made famous by a prince in 1921 4 BEATSRead Archive5 JUL Fortuny patented a pleat no one has copied since 1909 4 BEATSRead Archive5 JUL Charvet invented the shirt shop in 1838 4 BEATSRead Archive5 JUL The Duke of Windsor never wore a Windsor knot 4 BEATSRead Archive4 JUL The Hermes saddle stitch, sewn by hand since 1837 4 BEATSRead

June 2026

Archive29 JUN Madeleine Vionnet did not invent the bias cut 4 BEATSRead Archive29 JUN Dali wanted real mayonnaise on a Schiaparelli dress 4 BEATSRead Archive29 JUN Vivienne Westwood sold punk from one Chelsea shop 4 BEATSRead Archive29 JUN Alexander McQueen learned his craft on Savile Row 4 BEATSRead Archive29 JUN Issey Miyake pleated his clothes backwards 4 BEATSRead Archive · Paris29 JUN Yohji Yamamoto's all-black Paris debut was mocked, then won 4 BEATSRead Archive29 JUN Saint Laurent turned a peasant shoe into a heel 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The Hermes Constance is named after a baby 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The button-down collar was borrowed from polo 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The duffle coat is named after a Belgian town 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The Clarks Desert Boot was copied from a Cairo bazaar 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN Chanel No. 5 is named after a sample number 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The cardigan and the raglan are named after war commanders 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The bikini is named after a nuclear test site 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The Panama hat is from Ecuador 5 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN Converse put a real salesman's name on the shoe 4 BEATSRead Archive27 JUN The Dr. Martens 1460 is named after its birthday 5 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN The Harrington jacket is named after a man who didn't exist 5 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN The first Hermes silk scarf was a board game 5 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN Manolo Blahnik was an insider secret for 25 years before 'Manolos' 4 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN Goyard's chevron predates the Louis Vuitton monogram 5 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN The Lady Dior was 'the favourite' before it carried Diana's name 5 BEATSRead Archive24 JUN The Cartier Love bracelet locks on with a screwdriver 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN Harris Tweed is protected by its own Act of Parliament 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN Ray-Ban is named after the thing it blocks 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN The LV monogram was designed to stop fakes 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN The Schott Perfecto is named after a cigar 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN The Hermes Kelly was named after a hidden pregnancy 5 BEATSRead Archive23 JUN The Moon Boot came from the moon landing 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN Barbour's wax jacket started on the docks 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN Repetto's ballet flat walked off the stage for Bardot 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN Burberry beat the rain at the yarn 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN YSL's Le Smoking put women in a tuxedo 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN The Cartier Tank is shaped like a WWI tank 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN The Fendi Baguette is named for how you hold it 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN The Lacoste crocodile was a nickname before a logo 5 BEATSRead Archive22 JUN The Levi's 501 rivet is patented engineering 5 BEATSRead Archive12 JUN The Chanel 2.55 is named after its birthday 5 BEATSRead Archive12 JUN Le Smoking, 1966 — the suit that got women turned away 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Opinion: trend-hopping is homelessness 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Opinion: boring is the flex 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN The Designer Reset scoreboard, mid-2026 7 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Helmut Lang shredded his own archive 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Prada's nylon backpack, 1984 — luxury from industrial fabric 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Margiela's Tabi hasn't changed since 1988 5 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN The Birkin was sketched on an airplane sick bag 6 BEATSRead Archive11 JUN Lajee Celtic — how a UEFA fine became a Palestinian football club 9 BEATSRead Archive10 JUN David Estrada — the OOTD as performance art 7 BEATSRead Archive10 JUN Louis Vuitton Horizon Aluminium suitcase — Monogram embossed into shell for structural rigidity 6 BEATSRead

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