FASHION

On September 20, McQueen will return to London Fashion Week. For another fashion house, changing the city of a runway show might amount to little more than scheduling. For McQueen, London is part of the vocabulary of the house. It is where Lee Alexander McQueen established his label in 1992, and where the tension between tradition and rebellion that defined his work first took shape. Creative director Seán McGirr is bringing the house's Spring/Summer 2027 collection back to t

Paris Fashion Week has always been about clothes. It has never been only about clothes. When the Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear season begins on September 28, Paris will once again become fashion's most closely watched stage. Through October 6, designers, editors, buyers, artisans, photographers, celebrities and an enormous digital audience will participate in a ritual the city has spent generations perfecting: transforming clothing into cultural conversation. AI-generated ima

In an age when technology promises to make almost everything faster, cheaper and more precise, luxury continues to place extraordinary value on something decidedly old-fashioned: the human hand. A hand-embroidered evening dress, a perfectly fitted haute couture jacket, a marquetry cabinet or a piece of needle lace may require hours, weeks or even months of work. Their value is not determined by material alone. It comes from the accumulated knowledge of someone who has learned

Paris Fashion Week has always cultivated a certain mythology. Black cars pull up outside historic hôtels particuliers. Photographers gather behind barricades. Editors hurry between appointments, celebrities disappear through guarded entrances, and somewhere behind a discreet door, a collection that will influence what the world wears six months later is revealed for the first time. For the visitor arriving in Paris during Fashion Week, it can appear tantalizingly close; and c

There is something wonderfully unapologetic about September in New York. The sidewalks become runways, black cars multiply, impossible shoes suddenly seem perfectly reasonable at ten in the morning, and somewhere between SoHo and the Upper East Side, everyone appears to be either going to a fashion show or hoping you assume they are. New York Fashion Week returns September 10–15, 2026, and this season, with some 70 runway shows and presentations on the preliminary official CF

Long before Instagram, fashion photography or the front row, there was another way to send a new silhouette into the world: dress a doll. It sounds almost quaint now, but miniature figures once carried fashion across borders. As early as the 14th century, according to New York’s Museum at FIT, dolls circulated through Europe as three-dimensional messengers of style, allowing clothing to be examined in a way that drawings could not quite replicate. By the early 20th century, t

Fashion has always had a peculiar relationship with time. It insists on telling us what is new while constantly looking over its shoulder at what came before. Hemlines return. Silhouettes reappear. Handbags disappear into wardrobes only to emerge twenty years later as coveted vintage treasures. And occasionally, a garment survives so completely in our collective memory that it stops belonging to a season and becomes part of popular culture. The newspaper-print dress is one of

Fashion exhibitions often celebrate beautiful garments. The most memorable ones, however, reveal something far greater: the power of clothing to tell the story of a nation. That is precisely what visitors discover at La Mode en Majesté: Royal Thai Dress from Tradition to Modernity, on view at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs through November 1, 2026. More than an exhibition of extraordinary couture, it is a remarkable journey through diplomacy, cultural identity, craftsmanship,

Every Parisian has a BHV story. Mine begins long before online shopping, before smartphones, before fashion became measured in algorithms and overnight deliveries. It begins on the Rue de Rivoli, beneath the familiar façade facing the Hôtel de Ville, where wandering through BHV was never about buying one particular thing. It was about the pleasure of discovery. You might arrive looking for a set of crystal glasses and leave with a beautifully designed lamp, a linen tablecloth