Fashion News covers the money attached to prediction: inventory commitments, markdown rates, canceled orders, forecasting contracts and the cost of reading a season badly. Reporting uses retail results and industry figures. Meant for readers who answer for a buying decision made a year in advance.
Drew Henry takes Courrèges in May, Meryll Rogge waits on her Marni debut, and the season's last open seats fill without fanfare — the sign of a market cooling from frenzy to fit.
Hermès grew six percent on constant exchange rates while Kering slid six percent and LVMH managed one percent organic — and the Middle East conflict, not taste, decided the quarter's spread.
With secondhand forecast to grow two to three times faster than first-hand fashion through 2027, brands are signing platform partnerships — and discovering the data matters more than the margin.
With the textile delegated act expected around 2027, 2026 is the compliance window: brands are building traceability systems now for rules that will bind every garment sold in the EU.
Copenhagen opened the season in January, Milan and Paris now overlap by a day, and the trade is treating calendar drift as an economic variable, not a clerical detail.
Maria Grazia Chiuri at Fendi, Rachel Scott opening New York and Demna's first Gucci runway put first collections, not houses, at the center of the fall 2026 season.