Our spring 2026 trend report reflects the fact that fashion’s big reset turned out to be a big remix. How could it be otherwise? We’re living through a period of late-stage postmodernism, one in which change happens ever more slowly. And as the lines of succession at heritage houses only grow longer, allowing for remixes of remixes, show watching has become a sort of spot-the-reference memory game.

With so much attention on the season’s 15 designer debuts , this was a kind of inside-baseball moment, which allowed designers to mostly avoid engaging with the unpleasantries of the world. As this is spring and summer we’re talking about, there were clothes to imaginarily transport you to Madonna’s La Isla Bonita, where you might want to don a pair of the loose jupe-culottes, or balloon-le

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