The British Fashion Council has launched the provisional schedule for London Fashion Week and can proceed its help for designers by waiving show fees for these presenting on the principle schedule.
Taking place from 19-23 February 2026, funding within the LFW International Guest Programme has additionally been doubled, permitting for an expanded group of worldwide press, cultural commentators, and consumers to attend the occasion.
The schedule will function a mixture of established and rising names, together with British manufacturers such as Burberry, Emilia Wickstead, Erdem, Richard Quinn, and Simone Rocha.
Temperley London may even return to the schedule for the primary time since September 2019, marking its twenty fifth anniversary, whereas Julien Macdonald will make a comeback after his final show in February 2023.
Other returning designers embody Chet Lo, John Richmond, Joseph, Masha Popova, and Phoebe English.
Paul Costelloe stays on the schedule – the one designer to have proven at each London Fashion Week since its inception greater than 40 years in the past – following the eponymous designer’s passing final month on the age of 80.
This season may even introduce a bunch of latest expertise to the LFW stage, together with sculptural womenswear label Agro Studio, equipment designer Clara Chu, rising design home Ewenki, Afro-contemporary menswear model Gravalot, womenswear label Liberowe, and craft-led Indian model Raw Mango.
Additionally, Conner Ives, winner of the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, will current his assortment alongside cult label Chopova Lowena, which is able to host a presentation.
The BFC’s NEWGEN initiative will showcase a various vary of up-and-coming expertise, each bodily and digitally, with designers such as A Letter (previously Aletta), Aaron Esh, Charlie Constantinou, Derrick, E.W.Usie, Kazna Asker, Karoline Vitto, Liza Keane, Lueder, Octi, Oscar Ouyang, Pauline Dujancourt, The Ouze, The Winter House, Tolu Coker, and Yaku all a part of the road-up.
Other notable names showing at LFW February 2026 embody Ashish, Completedworks, Denzilpatrick, Di Petsa, Edeline Lee, Labrum London, Lucila Safdie, Harris Reed, Mithridate, Patrick McDowell, Paolo Carzana, and Talia Byre.
It comes after Laura Weir, who was appointed CEO of the British Fashion Council earlier this 12 months, signalled the start of a brand new period for British trend throughout her first London Fashion Week season in September.
Her imaginative and prescient is rooted in accessibility, cultural relevance, and international visibility. She’s taking steps to take away limitations and inject new vitality into the schedule – loosening entry standards, waiving fees, and guaranteeing the occasion displays the total scope of British trend creativity nationwide.