London Fashion Week is Back With a Decided Bang for Spring/Summer 2026

London Fashion Week has all the time been often known as the renegade cousin of the “core four” cities, with a scrappier vogue scene that usually prizes artistic genius above business viability (though probably the most profitable manufacturers, it must be stated, handle to marry each). After the information cycle of the previous few years, nonetheless, it’s an understatement to say it’s been a difficult period for the business.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. The British Fashion Council’s new CEO, Laura Weir, is feeling hopeful concerning the future, believing within the capital’s skill to rebound. “For so long we’ve been stuck in the doldrums of post-Brexit, post-COVID, and there’s no diminishing that as the painful time it’s been. But now it’s about the next era, rebuilding British fashion and the ecosystem that exists here to a point where it garners the respect it deserves,” Weir stated in an interview with WWD.

And there’s a lot on the schedule to attract the world’s eye, as soon as once more, to London, with sophomore collections, award-winning expertise and anniversaries to rejoice over 5 jam-packed days of vogue that includes 157 designers, 50 catwalk exhibits and 74 occasions.

Mithridate returns for its second assortment by Daniel Fletcher, the menswear designer who created considered one of final season’s most pleasant collections (many a vogue editor bookmarked its preppy knits, sequinned shifts and knee-length skirts for AW25). With followers together with Olivia Dean, Will Sharpe and Nicola Coughlan, it might very effectively be a celeb-packed entrance row, too.

In May, Patrick McDowell was offered with the celebrated Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, an honour that has beforehand been bestowed on manufacturers together with SS Daley, Labrum London, Saul Nash and Ahluwalia. Taking the primary slot on Saturday, McDowell’s assortment guarantees to be price setting your alarm for.

Fashion East is the capital’s indefatigable expertise incubator that has launched the careers of numerous designers, persevering with to be a conveyor belt of future artistic administrators that fuels the worldwide vogue business. This yr, it’s celebrating its twenty fifth birthday with a roster of free panel talks, screenings and exhibitions on the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in addition to a catwalk present comprising its present designers: Nuba, Jacek Gleba and Mayhew. Other notable birthdays embrace Roksanda, that is turning 20, and Erdem, that is equally leaving its teenage years behind.

Loved by Charli XCX, Kylie Jenner, Cate Blanchett and Dua Lipa, Dilara Findikoglu has carved out a area of interest for herself as probably the most bizarre designer to point out in London (severely, folks will queue outdoors within the rain for a standing ticket). For SS26, as reported in WWDshe’s taking a model recognized for its museum-worthy items into new territory, “introducing handbags, presenting more ready-to-wear looks and amping up wholesale and direct-to-consumer operations.”

Newcomers to the schedule embrace a number of manufacturers which have acquired backing from the BFC’s NEWGENtogether with Oscar Ouyang, the buzzy knitwear designer whose garments are stocked at Dover Street Market, in addition to Octi, the jewelry model that prides itself on being “made in London”. E.W.USIE will even be showing within the presentation area (and already has a fan in Emma Corrin).