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.
At Tokyo Fashion Week, Chika Kisada unveiled her Spring Summer 2026 collection in a stark, concrete-lined venue, a deliberate contrast that set the stage for her signature dialogue between grace and grit. This season pushed the brand’s evolving “ballet × punk” aesthetic to new extremes, exploring femininity through a lens of raw deconstruction and hybrid reinvention.
At Dubai Fashion Week, Valentina Poltronieri unveiled her Spring/Summer 2026 collection, a vibrant declaration of color, joy, and modern femininity. Known for her playful yet precise approach to tailoring and print, Poltronieri brought an unmistakable Italian sensibility to Dubai, fusing bold chromatics with sharp, contemporary lines.
For Spring Summer 2026, Cecilie Bahnsen marked her ten-year anniversary with Hana-bi, a deeply personal show staged at Refshaleøen, the post-industrial Copenhagen peninsula that has become a crucible for creative reinvention. The venue’s raw concrete backdrop set the stage for a collection that was neither retrospective nor forward escape but a living portrait of the brand’s evolving ethos – delicate yet disruptive, ethereal yet grounded in craft.
Tsumori Chisato marked a defining moment in her illustrious career with the unveiling of her Spring Summer 2026 collection at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, a joyful celebration of the brand’s 35th anniversary. The runway, titled “35th Anniversary TSUMORI CHISATO Gratitude”, was her first in more than seven years, following her last Paris presentation in 2018, and proved to be both nostalgic and forward-looking.
Hannah Shin’s Spring–Summer 2026 collection at Seoul Fashion Week unfolded as a serene yet groundbreaking study of fashion’s future. True to the house’s language of poetic futurism, the collection balanced meticulous craft with technological precision, revealing garments that felt both artisanal and engineered.