Looking back, the past year has turned the fashion industry into a stylish game of musical chairs. Creative directors jumped ship left, right and centre - with esteemed industry names like Jonathan Anderson , Demna Gvasalia and Louise Trotter bouncing around like Bottega fringing.

Naturally, luxury fashion’s uprooting directly affected the trend cycle. As ever, runway visionaries dictated the direction, their imaginative statements shaping what filters down to the wider consumer market. The result? A kaleidoscopic mish-mash of past and present, with spring/summer 2026 witnessing a grand total of sixteen creative designer debuts that nodded to the future of the top-tier houses.

While wisps of SS26 have already taken hold, think bold Eighties silhouettes, painterly prints, whimsi

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