Tuesday, October 27, 2026 / Spring/Summer 2027 season
The collections, the houses, and the business behind them
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Creative directors, appointments, and the strategy behind who gets handed a heritage house.
HousesFashion and leather goods fell 5% in the third quarter, one quarter after its first growth in almost two years. Dior held flat, Celine and Loro Piana grew, and the problem has a name on the door: Louis Vuitton in China.
HousesJonathan Anderson will show Cruise 2028 in Shanghai on May 14, 2027, seventeen years after the house last staged a major show there. Dior is the first big French house to say where its next cruise goes, and it said so the week before its Paris show.
HousesJonathan Anderson took all of Dior in 2025 and by July 2026 LVMH was attributing part of its first fashion growth in seven quarters to his effect. What it takes to move an €18 billion division, and what the credit actually proves.
HousesDior, Chanel, Gucci, Balenciaga, Celine, Maison Margiela, Fendi, Bottega Veneta. Fifteen debuts in the Spring/Summer 2026 season alone. A map of the largest creative reset in modern luxury, and why it happened all at once.
HousesHis September debut in Milan was received as a triumph. He left on December 12, ten days after Prada Group closed its acquisition. Reception had nothing to do with it.