At Dubai Fashion Week Spring–Summer 2026, Lili Blanc unveiled a collection that distilled the house’s codes of elegance into a language of fluid minimalism. The presentation moved with quiet confidence, weaving together streamlined tailoring, softened volumes, and diaphanous layers that played between structure and ease.

Ulkin’s Spring–Summer 2026 collection, unveiled at Seoul Fashion Week, unfolded as a stark meditation on visibility and control. The runway itself was staged as a cube display case that turned models into living exhibits, forcing the audience to confront the uneasy dynamic between spectacle and scrutiny.

Making its highly anticipated debut at Dubai Fashion Week under the La Moda Italiana initiative, Avant Toi unveiled a spring–summer 2026 collection that transformed knitwear into pure artistry. Known for elevating everyday fibers into experimental canvases, the Italian house presented a lineup that pulsed with saturated pigments, rare yarns, and painterly surface treatments, each piece a tactile expression of craft and creativity.

Tara Babylon brought her singular energy to Dubai Fashion Week with a Spring Summer 2026 collection that blurred the lines between fashion, performance, and protest. Known for her maximalist approach and radical craftsmanship, Babylon leaned into her reputation for weaving chaos into beauty, transforming recycled materials, playful textures, and bold silhouettes into a visual feast that felt both anarchic and celebratory.

Yueqi Qi unveiled her Spring Summer 2026 collection at Tokyo Fashion Week, delivering a poetic meditation on fragility, memory, and the intimate craftsmanship that defines her work. Known for her intricate beading and sculptural detailing, the designer wove together garments that felt simultaneously delicate and defiant, like fragments of light caught in motion.

At the Brillia Running Stadium in Shin-Toyosu, Någonstans presented its Spring Summer 2026 collection, Mountain Trail: A Poetic Expedition into Alpine Landscapes, staged during Tokyo Fashion Week. Designer Mizuki Ueda reimagined the act of trekking through verdant paths, steep ridges, and stony terrain, weaving the brand’s ethos of “Somewhere You Belong” into a narrative of movement, resilience, and wonder.

Haute Mode Hirata unveiled its Spring Summer 2026 collection at Tokyo Fashion Week with a breathtaking showcase of 31 hats that redefined the possibilities of headwear. Founded by the legendary Akio Hirata, whose visionary creations graced the worlds of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Comme des Garçons, the house continues to honor its founder’s philosophy of Haute Mode: headpieces conceived with the precision and artistry of haute couture. Today, that legacy is carried forward by Oko Hirata and her children, Saki and Sho, who infuse his spirit with their own contemporary daring.

In its fifth year, Fetico has solidified its place as Japan’s most provocative fashion house, and its Spring/Summer 2026 show at Tokyo Fashion Week proved why. Designer Emi Funayama, this season’s Rakuten “By R” sponsorship recipient, unveiled The Depth of Her, a hypnotic meditation on sensuality that straddled gothic allure and raw intimacy. It was not just a collection but a defiant reframing of Japanese femininity, rendered in lace, corsetry, and daring silhouettes that invited both revelation and restraint.