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For Milan Men’s Fashion Week, the Rowen Rose Fall/Winter 2026–2027 collection made a deliberate and striking intervention into a traditionally masculine calendar. By unveiling a women’s collection within this context, creative director Emma Rowen Rose sharpened the brand’s uncompromisingly feminine identity, using contrast as a conceptual tool. The presentation unfolded like a cinematic noir, steeped in mystery and controlled drama, where the garments themselves assumed the role of protagonists: commanding, enigmatic, and unapologetically powerful.

Rowen Rose FW 2026–27 Collection: Noir Femininity and the Power of Precision

Rejecting the pace and scale that often characterize Copenhagen Fashion Week, Skall Studio chose deliberateness over velocity for its Fall/Winter 2026–2027 presentation. Titled Karen Blixen’s Flowers, the show unfolded as a quiet, inward-looking encounter; less runway spectacle and more shared moments, where atmosphere, memory, and emotional restraint took precedence over momentum.

Skall Studio FW26–27 Collection: An Intimate Bloom of Stillness

Opening Dubai Fashion Week, Lorenzo Serafini positioned Alberta Ferretti as a confident ambassador of modern Italian elegance, presenting a Fall/Winter 2026–2027 collection that spoke fluently across borders. Rather than tailoring the narrative to place, Serafini proposed a universal vision of femininity, one rooted in romantic strength and assured refinement. This was not fashion shaped by geography but by attitude: a woman who balances authority with emotion, discipline with indulgence, and tradition with a quietly progressive spirit.

Alberta Ferretti FW26–27 Collection: The Language of Soft Authority

Robert Wun’s Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture collection, presented under the resonant title Valor: The Desire to Create and the Courage to Carry On, unfolded as a deeply personal meditation on creativity, endurance, and emotional resilience. Staged inside the Lido, an unexpected setting more synonymous with decadent performance than introspection, the show rejected cabaret excess in favor of operatic intensity.

Robert Wun SS26 Haute Couture Collection

For Fall/Winter 2026–27, Thom Browne once again transformed the menswear runway into a meticulously controlled universe, where tailoring operates as both uniform and provocation. Staged with his signature theatrical precision, the show unfolded as a meditation on order, ritual, and the quiet tension between conformity and imagination, a recurring preoccupation within Browne’s deeply codified world.

Thom Browne Fall Winter 2026–27: A Study in Discipline, Dream, and Disruption

For Pre-Fall 2026, Maria McManus advances her design language through a quietly intellectual lens, anchoring the collection in the work of Scottish modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Known for an abstract practice shaped by nature, rhythm, and postwar introspection, Barns-Graham offers a conceptual parallel rather than a literal reference point. McManus was drawn to the artist’s belief in prioritizing inner structure over surface appearance, a philosophy that resonates deeply with her own approach, where ethics, fabrication, and construction are treated as integral to aesthetic expression.