The Splendid Edit — Issue No. 05 — Summer 2026 A Splendid Media Publication — worldofsplendid.com
Cover Story — Monaco

Cover Story · Issue 05

Fashion laps
the circuit.

Lewis Hamilton in Rick Owens on the quay. Charles Leclerc launching a capsule from the Fairmont rooftop. TAG Heuer rearchitecting the Monaco chronograph. The Grand Prix is no longer a race with fashion on the sidelines — the paddock is the runway.

By Margaux Delacroix Monaco · May 2026 10 min read
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Superyachts moored in Monaco’s Port Hercule during the Grand Prix — the harbour where fashion meets the circuit

Monaco Grand Prix, Port Hercule — Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*

Monaco Grand Prix — 7 June 2026

Port Hercule — Fashion Laps the Circuit

Issue No. 05 — Now Live ·  The Lake Como EDITION Opens Autumn 2026 ·  Creative Directors Reshaping Fashion ·  Paris · Milan · London · Shanghai ·  Shushu/Tong at Ten ·  Margiela AW26 — Glenn Martens ·  Waldorf Astoria London — Admiralty Arch ·  McQueen — De Manta by Tim Walker ·  Autumn Hotel Edit ·  Fashion Week Dispatch ·  Issue No. 05 — Now Live ·  The Lake Como EDITION Opens Autumn 2026 ·  Creative Directors Reshaping Fashion ·  Paris · Milan · London · Shanghai ·  Shushu/Tong at Ten ·  Margiela AW26 — Glenn Martens ·  Waldorf Astoria London — Admiralty Arch ·  McQueen — De Manta by Tim Walker ·  Autumn Hotel Edit ·  Fashion Week Dispatch · 
01 The Stay

The rooms worth cancelling dinner for

Honest reviews of the hotels where fashion week begins and ends. We test the beds, the bars and the concierge’s patience.

03 The Edit

What we noticed this season

A running edit of the things worth knowing: the bag everyone carried, the bar that stayed open, the view that stopped a conversation.

04 City Guides

Ten cities. One editorial standard.

Paris. Milan. London. New York. Tokyo. Seoul. Shanghai. Sydney. Monaco. Copenhagen. Each guide written by someone who lives the week, not visits it.

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Hotel Julien Antwerp, redesigned by Bea Mombaers and Peter Ivens, reopened May 2026
Photography courtesy of Hotel Julien / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Antwerp

Hotel Julien, the Antwerp address that stays for friends

Two adjoining 16th-century townhouses just off Groenplaats. Twenty-one rooms made over by Bea Mombaers and Peter Ivens in linen, marble and timber. A cellar spa under a vaulted ceiling. A rooftop terrace facing the cathedral. The reopening of a quietly perfect Belgian stay.

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Inside the new Issey Miyake flagship at 45 Madison Avenue, designed by SO-IL within the Cass Gilbert New York Life Building
Photography courtesy of Issey Miyake / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · New York

Issey Miyake, the largest in the world on Madison Avenue

After twenty-four years in Tribeca, the house walks uptown to a thirteen-thousand-square-foot Beaux-Arts corner at Madison and 26th. SO–IL holds the centre with a glass staircase. A small back room called MADO opens as the brand’s first gallery outside Japan.

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NIGO: From Japan with Love at the Design Museum London, photographed by Luke Hayes
Photography by Luke Hayes, via 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

NIGO at the Design Museum, from Harajuku, with love

The Design Museum in Kensington gives Tomoaki Nagao his first retrospective. Seven hundred objects, four chapters, three decades of work. A teenage bedroom in Maebashi sits at the centre. A glass tea house holds the final room.

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Designer Conner Ives photographed for 10 Magazine Issue 76 by James Anastasi
Photography by James Anastasi for 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Conner Ives, the white T-shirt that travelled

The American designer based in London cuts seventy-five per cent of each collection from deadstock. A plain tee at the bow of his AW25 London show, PROTECT THE DOLLS in black, became a global movement. Proceeds keep going to Not A Phase.

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Hôtel Bus Palladium, Pigalle, Paris, reopened May 2026 by Studio KO
Photography by Matthieu Salvaing for Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Paris

The Pigalle nightclub that kept its disco ball

Six Rue Pierre Fontaine reopens after four years. Studio KO stacks five new storeys on the 1965 rock temple, keeps the red neon and the carpet on the walls, and adds 35 vintage-inspired rooms. Caroline de Maigret picks the scent. Valentin Raffali runs the kitchen.

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A Husbands Paris model in a tailored single-breasted suit, photographed by R.D. Leigh-Hatwell
Photography by R.D. Leigh-Hatwell / Husbands Paris, via 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

Husbands Paris, the menswear tailor with a quiet female following

Nicolas Gabard opened his Paris menswear house in 2012. Editors at Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue Latin America keep showing up to order suits cut for men in fabrics chosen for them. Le Smoking, behind an unmarked door.

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Mulberry flagship factory The Rookery, Somerset, where the British Pasture Leather capsule is made
Photography courtesy of Mulberry, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Mulberry at fifty-five, the leather comes home

A Bayswater in Vintage Ebony, a Boston in Antique Oak, both cut from British Pasture Leather. South-west pasture to Bristol tannery to Somerset stitching room. The supply chain folds back on itself for the brand’s fifty-fifth year.

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Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris Signature Suite
Photography courtesy of Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Paris

The Left Bank gets its Mandarin

Hôtel Lutetia, the only French Palace on the Rive Gauche, became Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris in April. Wilmotte’s seven Signature Suites stay. Bar Joséphine stays. For fashion week, Saint-Germain finally has the operating system it needed.

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Bianca Spender runway show at Australian Fashion Week 2026
Photography courtesy of Australian Fashion Week
NEW The Season · Sydney

Australian Fashion Week at 30, the MCA chapter begins

AFW turns thirty and moves to the Museum of Contemporary Art on Circular Quay. Five days of shows from Bianca Spender to Ngali redefine Sydney as a global fashion capital. The harbour is the new backdrop.

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Hotel Corduroy, a new 29-room boutique hotel in Montauk by Blue Flag Capital, opened May 2026
Photography courtesy of Hotel Corduroy, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Montauk

Hotel Corduroy, the long Atlantic season

Blue Flag Capital opens its third property at the western edge of Lake Montauk. Ward + Gray reimagines the 1983 Sunset Montauk in sun-faded red, deep green and pale oak. Twenty-nine rooms, a lawn of fire pits, and the Hampton Jitney three hours behind you.

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Ferrari Style flagship store interior on Old Bond Street, London, designed by Gonzalez Haase AAS and Formafantasma
Photography by Ed Reeve / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Ferrari on Piccadilly, a fashion house in stainless steel

Rocco Iannone opens Ferrari Style’s London flagship at the corner of Old Bond Street. Gonzalez Haase AAS and Formafantasma shape 850 square metres of brushed steel and concrete into a shrine to the Maranello Officina.

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Gucci Art of Silk campaign featuring ten archival silk scarves reinterpreted by Demna
Photography courtesy of Gucci
NEW The Season · Milan

Gucci’s Art of Silk, ten scarves from the archive

Demna selects ten archival prints for Gucci’s silk scarves. Two Flora editions honour Grace Kelly and the opening of LACMA’s Peter Zumthor pavilion. Calabrian mulberry farms revive Italian silk production.

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The vaulted swimming pool at Six Senses London in the restored Whiteley’s building, Bayswater
Photography by Martin Morrell / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · London

Six Senses Bayswater, a department store reborn

The pioneering wellness brand opens its first UK hotel inside the restored Whiteley’s in Bayswater. Foster + Partners and AvroKO turn a Grade II landmark into 109 rooms, a 2,300 sq m spa and a biohacking lounge.

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JW Marriott Hotel Tokyo, designed by Yabu Pushelberg on the upper floors of THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH at Takanawa Gateway City
Photography courtesy of JW Marriott, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

JW Marriott Takanawa, Tokyo Tower at eye level

Yabu Pushelberg takes the upper floors of THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH. Two hundred rooms above the new Takanawa Gateway, Mount Fuji past Tokyo Tower on a clear morning, the trains running silent forty floors below.

Juliette Marchand · 11 May 2026 Read →
Superyachts moored in Monaco’s Port Hercule during the Grand Prix — the harbour where fashion meets the circuit
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
COVER Cover Story · Monaco

Fashion laps the circuit: the Monaco Grand Prix as runway

Lewis Hamilton in Rick Owens. Leclerc’s Ferrari capsule on the Fairmont rooftop. TAG Heuer’s redesigned Monaco chronograph. How Formula 1’s most glamorous weekend became fashion’s most coveted front row.

Margaux Delacroix · 7 May 2026 Read →
Inside the Costume Art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mannequins scanned from real bodies with mirrored steel heads by Samar Hejazi
Photography by Anna-Marie Kellen, courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

The Met rebuilds the mannequin, Costume Art opens this week

Fourteen mannequins, scanned from real bodies, with mirrored steel heads by Samar Hejazi. Costume Art opens 10 May in the new Condé M. Nast Galleries. Andrew Bolton hands the face back to the visitor.

Isabelle Rowe · 6 May 2026 Read →
Madonna at the 2026 Met Gala in custom Saint Laurent designed by Anthony Vaccarello
Photography by Michael Loccisano / Getty Images
NEW The Season · New York

Madonna’s Saint Laurent, a painting walks the carpet

Anthony Vaccarello dresses Madonna for the 2026 Met Gala as a Leonora Carrington Surrealist painting come to life: a black lace gown, a haunted ship hat, a long cornflower veil, seven attendants. Costume Art, fully realised.

Camille Ashworth · 6 May 2026 Read →
Met Gala 2026, the entrance to the Costume Art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photography courtesy of The Splendid Edit
NEW The Season · New York

Met Gala 2026, Sabrina Carpenter’s Dior is a film reel

Jonathan Anderson built a custom Dior for Carpenter from rhinestone strips of celluloid, cut from the 1954 picture for which she was named. A halter line. A jeweled headpiece carrying the title card.

Léa Fontaine · 5 May 2026 Read →
Gucci La Famiglia collection by Demna, photographed by Catherine Opie
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

Gucci Cruise 2027, Demna lands his first cruise show in New York

On 16 May, Demna stages his first cruise collection for Gucci in the city where Guccio Gucci opened his first international store in 1953. The venue stays secret. The choice of city does not.

Camille Ashworth · 4 May 2026 Read →
Fairmont Tokyo, the Driftwood rooftop bar on level 43 with views over Tokyo Bay
Photography by Peter Bennetts, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

Fairmont Tokyo, thirty-five floors above the bay

The brand’s first hotel in Japan opens at the top of Maki & Associates’ Blue Front Shibaura tower. Two hundred and seventeen rooms, a Labrador on the door, a level-43 listening room.

Sienna Caldwell · 3 May 2026 Read →
Studio Nocturne, Flora Gau's fashion and art bookshop in De Beauvoir, east London
Photograph: Studio Nocturne, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Studio Nocturne, Flora Gau opens a new chapter for fashion in print

A converted carriage house in De Beauvoir. Two floors of rare fashion and art books, original artworks, esoterica. The former curator of the Alaïa Bookstore picks up the thread Claire de Rouen left behind.

Margaux Delacroix · 3 May 2026 Read →
House of Dior New York — Peter Marino's flagship at the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue
Photography by Jonathan Taylor / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

At 57th and Madison, Dior makes a country house in Manhattan

Peter Marino’s four-storey House of Dior — the maison’s largest stateside flagship, with a Dior Spa, animatronic bees, and a forty-seven-piece capsule for 1947 — in the week before the Met Gala.

Isabelle Rowe · 3 May 2026 Read →
The Newman, Fitzrovia — the Penthouse terrace with view to the BT Tower
Photograph courtesy of The Newman, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · London

At the Newman, Fitzrovia is the brief

Eighty-one rooms on Newman Street. Kinsfolk & Co’s debut hotel reads its neighbourhood closely — Nancy Cunard, Aleister Crowley, the Fitzroy Tavern regulars — and lets the references do the work.

Léa Fontaine · 2 May 2026 Read →
Monaco harbour and the Circuit de Monaco — luxury hotels line the Mediterranean waterfront
Photograph courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Monaco

Monaco Grand Prix 2026: where to stay for the race

From the cliff-top Maybourne Riviera to the Fairmont’s hairpin-bend suites, the five hotels that put you closest to the circuit — and furthest from the crowd.

Camille Ashworth · 30 Apr 2026 Read →
Alexander McQueen Plato’s Atlantis Spring/Summer 2010, the show whose music returned at Unnatural Harmony
Photograph by Giovanni Giannoni, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Unnatural Harmony at the Southbank: the music of McQueen, played live

John Gosling and the London Contemporary Orchestra premiere a seventeen-piece programme drawn from twenty years of Alexander McQueen runway scores, with choreography by Holly Blakey and a film by Douglas Hart and Eddie Whelan.

Elena Voss · 2 May 2026 Read →
Bethan Laura Wood for Serapian, pastel Mosaico bags in azure, pink and ice
Image courtesy of Serapian, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Serapian & Bethan Laura Wood: a sunrise in Milan leather

A British colourist drops her Japanese-bokashi palette into the 97-year-old Milanese leather house. The Sunrise of Mestieri d’Arte capsule rinses the Mosaico weave in pink, azure and ice for spring 2026.

Juliette Marchand · 1 May 2026 Read →
Acne Studios’ pink-granite Aoyama flagship in Tokyo, designed with Halleroed
Photography by Den Niwa / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Tokyo

Acne Studios in Aoyama: pink granite and the architecture of fun

Halleroed turns a former garage into a flame-finished pink-granite pavilion for Jonny Johansson’s most considered store yet. Stockholm minimalism, in Tokyo, is allowed to flirt.

Sienna Caldwell · 1 May 2026 Read →
Camper x Issey Miyake Karst Finch sneaker in pink, yellow, green and blue
Image courtesy of Issey Miyake, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Tokyo

Issey Miyake × Camper: the Karst Finch in flight

Satoshi Kondo and Camper rebuild the Mary Jane in finch colours, with a bubble sole and two pairs of socks in every box. The Karst Finch lands in stores 15 April.

Margaux Delacroix · 30 Apr 2026 Read →
Victoria Beckham × Gap collection — editorial campaign
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

Victoria Beckham × Gap: the return of democratic luxury

A 38-piece collection, a new denim silhouette called the Arc Jean, and a waitlist of 40,000 — Beckham’s first mass-market partnership in two decades rewrites the rules of designer collaboration.

Sienna Caldwell · 30 Apr 2026 Read →
Louise Trotter’s Bottega Veneta — runway at Milan Fashion Week
Photography courtesy of Hypebeast
NEW The Season · Milan

Louise Trotter’s Bottega Veneta: brutalism in shearling

Eighty-one looks, shearling in butter yellow and cobalt, and a swing coat made from 2,000 hand-stitched elements — Trotter’s second collection claims the house as her own.

Léa Fontaine · 30 Apr 2026 Read →
Zannier Bendor — the restored Île de Bendor off the coast of Bandol, Provence
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Provence

Zannier Bendor: a private island reborn

Paul Ricard’s Mediterranean island reopens after a five-year restoration — 93 rooms, a 1,200 sqm spa, eight dining concepts by Lionel Levy, and a seven-minute boat ride from Bandol.

Camille Ashworth · 30 Apr 2026 Read →
Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, Paris
Photography by Stéphane Aït Ouarab, courtesy Fondation Azzedine Alaïa via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris

Alaïa & Dior: the longer view

The Fondation Azzedine Alaïa extends Olivier Saillard’s pairing of two haute couture masters through 21 June. Ninety designs, the same path walked twice — once for cloth, once for the cut.

Camille Ashworth · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Fashion editorial — the pages and images that define how we think about dressing
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Culture

The ten fashion-led magazines we return to

From Splendid Magazine to Wallpaper*, 10 Magazine, Kinfolk and The Gentlewoman — a ranked guide to the publications that still reward the act of reading.

Isabelle Rowe · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Simone Ashley in the Burberry × Hunza G swimwear campaign, photographed by Ryan McGinley
Photography by Ryan McGinley courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Burberry × Hunza G: a British summer, bottled

Daniel Lee and Georgiana Huddart bring the house check to the shoreline — four Original Crinkle™ silhouettes, a new seahorse motif and a Ryan McGinley campaign that makes cocoa the colour of the season.

Margaux Delacroix · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Phoebe Philo Collection E lookbook — shearling coat in deep cherry
Photography courtesy of Hypebeast
NEW The Season · London

Phoebe Philo Collection E: the quiet act of dressing

The fifth drop from Philo’s independent label arrives in June — shearling in cherry and ink, silk T-shirt dresses with transparent panels, and a wrap coat with peaked lapels that may be the season’s most wanted.

Juliette Marchand · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Airelles Palladio Venice — the restored 16th-century façade on Giudecca Island
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Venice

Airelles Palladio, Venice: Giudecca’s quiet grandeur

The first Airelles outside France opens on Giudecca Island — a Palladio-designed church, Rubelli fabrics, a Guerlain Spa and three pools facing St Mark’s across the lagoon. From €1,200 a night.

Elena Voss · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Marni x Cucchi sugar packets and coffee cups in red and green stripes for the Italian house’s Pasticceria Cucchi takeover, Milan Design Week 2026
Photography courtesy of Marni / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Marni moves into Pasticceria Cucchi for the summer

A three-month residency at the 1936 caffé-concerto on Corso Genova. Red, green, polka dots and a bespoke bow-tie monogram — Meryll Rogge’s first design-week project rewrites the room without redecorating it.

Sienna Caldwell · 29 Apr 2026 Read →
Oscar Ouyang knitwear — the London designer’s portrait
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Oscar Ouyang and the new shape of knit

The Beijing-born Central Saint Martins graduate stages his sophomore London show inside a fictional ruined manor at auction — crochet, hand-knit and folklore turned into a wardrobe a generation actually wants to wear.

Margaux Delacroix · 28 Apr 2026 Read →
Capella Kyoto exterior by Kengo Kuma in the Higashiyama district
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Kyoto

Capella Kyoto: the machiya reimagined

Kengo Kuma designs the first Capella in Japan — eighty-nine rooms in the heart of Kyoto’s geisha district, a SingleThread restaurant and private onsen suites with views of Yasaka Pagoda.

Camille Ashworth · 28 Apr 2026 Read →
Armani/Archivio Chapter Two campaign by Eli Russell Linnetz
Photography by Eli Russell Linnetz courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Armani/Archivio: thirteen silhouettes that changed the conversation

Giorgio Armani reproduces thirteen men’s and women’s looks from 1979–1994, photographed by Eli Russell Linnetz. Past Perfect. Future Ready.

Isabelle Rowe · 28 Apr 2026 Read →
Chanel runway — Matthieu Blazy's vision for the house
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Biarritz

Chanel returns to Biarritz: Matthieu Blazy’s first Cruise

Blazy takes Chanel back to where it all began — the Bay of Biscay town where Gabrielle Chanel opened her first couture house in 1915 — for a Cruise show that promises to rewrite the house’s relationship with the sea.

Léa Fontaine · 28 Apr 2026 Read →
Etro Fall 2026 runway — Marco De Vincenzo's Loop Forward collection
Photography by Alessandro Viero courtesy of The Impression
NEW The Season · Milan

Etro Loop Forward: Marco De Vincenzo’s parting bow

De Vincenzo’s final collection for Etro moved from austere tailoring to full-blown maximalism — a four-year love letter to escapism, paisley and the art of knowing when to leave.

Sienna Caldwell · 27 Apr 2026 Read →
Six Senses London terrace at The Whiteley in Bayswater
Photography courtesy of Robb Report
NEW The Stay · London

Wellness finds its address

Six Senses opens inside the Grade II-listed Whiteley’s in Bayswater. Foster + Partners restored the dome, AvroKO dressed 109 rooms in terracotta and blue, and London gets its first magnesium pool and a 24,800 sq ft spa with an Alchemy Bar.

Camille Ashworth · 27 Apr 2026 Read →
Bottega Veneta SS26 by Louise Trotter — bold texture and iridescent recycled fiberglass
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Spring/Summer 2026

The twelve looks that define Spring/Summer 2026

From Bottega Veneta’s iridescent fiberglass to Chanel’s Charvet collaboration and Givenchy’s Snatch bag. The trends that survived the runway and arrived in the world — colour, romance, pyjama dressing and a new pair of shoes.

Margaux Delacroix · 27 Apr 2026 Read →
Louis Vuitton Hotel pop-up at 28 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Louis Vuitton Hotel: 130 years of the monogram

At 28 Berkeley Square, a Georgian townhouse becomes the LV Hotel — three floors, five iconic bags, a Pharrell-designed gold room, Café Alma on the first floor, and Bar Noé in the basement. Open until 21 June.

Isabelle Rowe · 27 Apr 2026 Read →
Kilchoan Estate on 13,000 rewilded acres on the Knoydart Peninsula, Scottish Highlands
Photography courtesy of Robb Report
NEW The Stay · Scottish Highlands

Thirteen thousand acres of quiet

No road in. Only ferry or a sixteen-mile hike. On the Knoydart Peninsula, Kilchoan Estate opens across 13,000 rewilded acres with Waldo Works interiors, 150 artworks, and a puffin colony you reach by boat.

Elena Voss · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Prada Spring/Summer 2026 campaign by Oliver Hadlee Pearch
Photography by Oliver Hadlee Pearch, courtesy of Prada / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Spring/Summer 2026

The SS26 campaigns: image, interrupted

Prada questions the advertisement itself. Burberry brings back Twiggy. Valentino suspends its subjects in mid-air. The campaign season arrives amid fashion’s great reset — and the images are finally as radical as the clothes.

Margaux Delacroix · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Tim Walker's campaign for the McQueen Manta bag — Vivien Solari submerged in water
Photography by Tim Walker, courtesy of McQueen / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

McQueen’s Manta: Tim Walker returns to the water

Sixteen years after Plato’s Atlantis, the De Manta silhouette resurfaces. Tim Walker photographs Vivien Solari underwater for McQueen’s first dedicated bag campaign — angular folds, manta-ray geometry, and Gary Card’s otherworldly set.

Sienna Caldwell · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Janu Tokyo, Aman Group's second brand, in the Azabudai Hills development in Minato, designed by Jean-Michel Gathy
Photography courtesy of Aman Group, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

The louder Aman opens

One hundred and twenty-two rooms on the lower thirteen floors of a Pelli Clarke and Partners tower in Azabudai Hills. Jean-Michel Gathy designs Aman Group’s second brand, with red lacquer in the Chinese restaurant and a 4,000 sq m wellness floor built for crossover.

Léa Fontaine · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Reference Library, the Jil Sander installation by Simone Bellotti and Apartamento at Milan Design Week 2026
Photography courtesy of Jil Sander, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Jil Sander opens a library

Simone Bellotti’s first Salone outing arrives without a single dress. Sixty books, sixty chrome lecterns by Studioutte, a pair of white gloves at the door — an installation with Apartamento that builds the new house on a reading list.

Sienna Caldwell · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Azuma Farm Koiwai, a 24-villa rural hotel at the foot of Mount Iwate in Tohoku, Japan
Photography courtesy of Azuma Farms, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Iwate

The forest opens at Koiwai

Two and twenty minutes by Shinkansen from Tokyo. Twenty-four villas in century-old red pine at the foot of Mount Iwate. Fumitomo Hayase, ex-Aman Tokyo and Amanemu, opens his first Azuma Farm and gives Tohoku its first hotel built for the long stay.

Margaux Delacroix · 26 Apr 2026 Read →
Orient Express Venezia at Palazzo Donà Giovannelli in Venice's Cannaregio district
Photography by Giulio Ghirardi, courtesy of Robb Report
NEW The Stay · Venice

A palazzo returns to the water

Orient Express opens its second hotel inside the fifteenth-century Palazzo Donà Giovannelli in Cannaregio. Forty-seven rooms by Aline Asmar d’Amman, Heinz Beck in the kitchen, and a Gothic water gate that opens onto the canal.

Camille Ashworth · 25 Apr 2026 Read →
Fashion's great reset — fifteen creative directors debuted at the Spring/Summer 2026 season
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris · Milan · London

Fifteen creative directors, one season

Blazy at Chanel. Anderson at Dior. Demna at Gucci. Piccioli at Balenciaga. Spring/Summer 2026 delivered the biggest creative-director reshuffle in fashion history — and a thesis on heritage without nostalgia.

Sienna Caldwell · 25 Apr 2026 Read →
CP Company × Alessi collaboration at Milan Design Week 2026
Photography courtesy of CP Company / Alessi, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

CP Company × Alessi, when coffee becomes a uniform

Richard Sapper’s 9090 in black PVD. Enzo Mari’s Arran tray, sandblasted. Three Nylon B overshirts in factory colours. At CP Company’s Milan headquarters, Italian industrial mastery gets a caffeine hit.

Léa Fontaine · 25 Apr 2026 Read →
Gucci Memoria tapestry hung at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano in Milan, Demna's first Fuorisalone for Gucci
Photography by Alessandro Saletta, courtesy of Gucci
NEW The Season · Milan

Demna sews Gucci into a Renaissance tapestry

For his first Fuorisalone, Demna hangs Gucci's hundred-and-five-year story across twelve Botticelli-styled tapestries in the cloisters of San Simpliciano in Brera — with a Flora garden, vending machines and the smartest installation in Milan this week.

Sienna Caldwell · 24 Apr 2026 Read →
Hotel Villa Colette by Philippe Starck in Cap Ferret, France
Photography by Julius Hirtzberger, courtesy of Wallpaper* / Hotel Villa Colette
NEW The Stay · Cap Ferret

Starck's pink cottage on the peninsula

Philippe Starck, forty-five years a Cap Ferret local, opens Hotel Villa Colette with Laurent Taiëb of the Utopik Collection. Twenty-eight rooms dressed as the retirement cottage of a 1930s French actress, with pink marble, a Klein piano, and the peninsula's first five-star key.

Juliette Marchand · 24 Apr 2026 Read →
The Devil Wears Prada 2 London premiere gala at the National Gallery with ruby-red carpet and oversized Runway logos
Photography by Pip Bourdillon, courtesy of Disney UK / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

At the National Gallery, Runway walks again

Disney UK and 10 Magazine turned The Devil Wears Prada 2's London premiere into a salon-style showcase of ten British designers — from Zandra Rhodes to Dilara Findikoglu — hung among the Gainsboroughs and the Turners for a single long evening.

Margaux Delacroix · 23 Apr 2026 Read →
Miu Miu Literary Club 2026 at Circolo Filologico Milanese, Milan Design Week
Photography courtesy of Miu Miu, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Miu Miu Literary Club, a library for the politics of desire

Three days at the Circolo Filologico Milanese. Miuccia Prada opens the fourth Literary Club during Salone del Mobile, with Rosi Braidotti's Curated Library, Annie Ernaux on the table, and lectures on consent and the shape of language after AI.

Isabelle Rowe · 23 Apr 2026 Read →
The subterranean pool at Hôtel Costes, Paris, designed by Studio Liaigre
Photography courtesy of Hôtel Costes and Studio Liaigre, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Paris

Costes finds its quiet half

A thousand square metres of stone and water beneath rue de Castiglione. Liaigre has closed a ten-year redesign with an oxygen-enriched pool, eight treatment rooms, and the largest Augustinus Bader spa anywhere.

Léa Fontaine · 23 Apr 2026 Read →
Kwangho Lee's hand-woven leather and rope sculpture at Bottega Veneta on Via Sant'Andrea, Milan Design Week 2026
Photography courtesy of Bottega Veneta / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Bottega Veneta, Kwangho Lee, the weave as grammar

A Seoul artist moves into the Via Sant’Andrea flagship for Milan Design Week, pulling black and green leather fettucce over sponge pipes and nylon rope. The sculpture completes a trilogy with the Spring-Summer lamps and last year's Seoul intrecciato chapter.

Sienna Caldwell · 22 Apr 2026 Read →
Stone Island No Seasons installation with NM3 at Capsule Plaza, Milan Design Week 2026
Photography courtesy of Stone Island, via Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Stone Island in Milan, one jacket, six fabrics, a swimming pool

Stone Island and NM3 take over a disused pool on Via Achille Maiocchi for Salone 2026. One archival blouson, six piombo fabrics, and an LED ceiling by Vittorio Maria Dal Maso. A revival of Massimo Osti's late-1980s No Seasons thesis.

Camille Ashworth · 22 Apr 2026 Read →
Soho House Tokyo, Aoyama, opened 6 April 2026
Photography courtesy of Soho House, via Hypebeast
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

A pool above Aoyama, tiled in Gifu indigo

Soho House Tokyo opens on a side street behind Omotesando. Forty-two bedrooms, a fourteenth-floor pool lined in 4,000 square feet of bespoke TAJIMI tile, kimono silk on the beds and an Edomae counter by Kunihiro Shinohara.

Margaux Delacroix · 22 Apr 2026 Read →
Dancers of the Royal Ballet in Saul Nash costumes for Wayne McGregor's Quantum Souls at the Royal Opera House
Photography by Andrej Uspenski / Royal Ballet and Opera, via 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Saul Nash at the Royal Opera, a second epidermis

Wayne McGregor hands the London menswear designer the costumes for Quantum Souls, the world premiere closing Alchemies at the Royal Opera House through 6 May. Technical mesh, bonded seams, a dancer on stage at Covent Garden.

Elena Voss · 21 Apr 2026 Read →
1 Hotel Tokyo, biophilic lobby in Akasaka Trust Tower
Photography by Sohei Oya & Nacása & Partners Inc / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

A garden on the thirty-eighth floor

1 Hotel Tokyo opens above Akasaka Trust Tower, the brand’s first property in Japan. Creme designs the interiors in Oya stone and recycled timber, with a vertical botanical wall in the sky lobby and Mount Fuji through the west-facing glass.

Camille Ashworth · 20 Apr 2026 Read →
Knwls by Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault, South Bermondsey, London
Photography by Thomas Hauser / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Knwls in Bermondsey, where London still bites back

Charlotte Knowles and Alexandre Arsenault run a ten-person studio south of the river. Corsetry in neoprene, bonded seams, a Nike shoe with sixteenth-century lacing. Seven years in, they still cut and fit on site.

Juliette Marchand · 20 Apr 2026 Read →
Tiffany and Co. Blue Book 2026 Hidden Garden, high jewellery by Nathalie Verdeille
Photography courtesy of Tiffany & Co. / CR Fashion Book
NEW The Season · New York

Tiffany's Hidden Garden, Verdeille reads Schlumberger again

Nathalie Verdeille opens the 2026 Blue Book with Hidden Garden, a spring chapter of high jewellery that asks you to slow down long enough to see it. Padparadscha sapphires, Brazilian aquamarines, and a Parrot finished feather by hand in paillonné enamel.

Margaux Delacroix · 20 Apr 2026 Read →
Dior Bamboo Pavilion, Daikanyama Tokyo, golden bamboo facade
Photography by Daici Ano / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Tokyo

A golden grove, Dior answers avenue Montaigne in Daikanyama

On the anniversary of the 1947 opening in Paris, Dior has planted a 740-square-metre pavilion wrapped in golden bamboo in Tokyo's most literate neighbourhood. Washi walls, a koi pond, and a kitchen run by Anne-Sophie Pic.

Sienna Caldwell · 20 Apr 2026 Read →
Gucci Art of Silk campaign, ten silk scarves curated by Demna from the house archive
Photography courtesy of Gucci / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Ten scarves, Demna opens the Gucci archive

Demna has been quiet since February. Now ten silk carrés arrive from the Gucci archive, including the Flora that Vittorio Accornero drew for Grace Kelly in 1966, spun by a silk collective in the Calabrian village of San Floro.

Isabelle Rowe · 19 Apr 2026 Read →
Joan Burstein, founder of Browns on South Molton Street, Mayfair, London
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Mrs B's window, and the London that made careers

Joan Burstein died at home in Ibiza on Friday, at one hundred. She put Galliano, Chalayan and Kane in a shop window on South Molton Street and taught London that a buyer could be an author.

Léa Fontaine · 19 Apr 2026 Read →
Sax Paris, the former Segur telephone exchange on avenue de Saxe, now Hilton LXR in the 7th arrondissement
Photography courtesy of Sax Paris / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Paris

Two hundred mirrors on avenue de Saxe

The Ségur telephone exchange was built in 1899 and closed for a century. Karine Journo reopens it as Sax Paris, the French debut of Hilton's LXR, with Baccarat overhead and the Eiffel Tower caught in every mirror.

Sienna Caldwell · 19 Apr 2026 Read →
Moncler Puffy Summer SS26 inflatable red lobster mascot
Photography courtesy of Moncler / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Moncler's Puffy Summer — tentacles on the Corso

Tentacles on the balconies of 10 Corso Como. A lobster, a whale, a flamingo in down-filled vinyl. Moncler opens its Salone del Mobile takeover with Andy Hillman's absurd summer menagerie.

Margaux Delacroix · 18 Apr 2026 Read →
Ferrari Style flagship on Old Bond Street, London, interior by Formafantasma with Gonzalez Haase AAS
Photography by Ed Reeve / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

Forty-five Old Bond Street, with a prancing horse

Ferrari Style installs its first standalone flagship outside Italy at the corner of Old Bond Street and Piccadilly. Rocco Iannone, Formafantasma and Gonzalez Haase AAS turn a 1905 Queen Anne block into a working Officina.

Juliette Marchand · 18 Apr 2026 Read →
Saint Laurent shoes designed by Corrado De Biase
Photography courtesy of Saint Laurent / CR Fashion Book
NEW The Season · Paris

Saint Laurent — the man who draws the line

Corrado De Biase is the quiet hand behind the Loulou pump and the Joe boot. Worn by Hailey Bieber, Rosé, and Zoë Kravitz. Argued over in millimetres on the rue de Bellechasse.

Elena Voss · 18 Apr 2026 Read →
The Twenty Two New York hotel on Union Square
Photography courtesy of The Twenty Two New York / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · New York

On Union Square, a house in its third life

The Margaret Louisa Home opened in 1891 for working women. A hundred and thirty-five years later, the Romanesque Revival block on East Sixteenth Street takes guests again, under London management and Child Studio interiors.

Isabelle Rowe · 18 Apr 2026 Read →
Burberry Rider Bag by Daniel Lee, SS26
Photography courtesy of Burberry / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

The Rider — a proper British handbag, at last

Daniel Lee walked it down the SS26 runway in September. Six months on, the Rider arrives in stores with whipstitched leather, the Knight emblem, and an argument about what a British handbag can be.

Camille Ashworth · 17 Apr 2026 Read →
Na Praia opens on the Comporta peninsula
Photography: João Lança Morais / Robb Report / Na Praia
NEW The Stay · Comporta

Na Praia, and the long patience of sand

Fifteen years on a peninsula an hour south of Lisbon. Studio KO’s buildings sit low in the dune, 340 hectares are kept preserved, and the beach is two kilometres of its own.

Léa Fontaine · 16 Apr 2026 Read →
Park Hyatt Tokyo reopens after Studio Jouin Manku renovation
Photography: Wallpaper* / Park Hyatt Tokyo
NEW The Stay · Tokyo

The hotel that learned to stand still

Park Hyatt Tokyo reopens after nineteen months with Studio Jouin Manku. The renovation is an exercise in knowing what not to touch.

Elena Voss · 15 Apr 2026 Read →
Vivienne Westwood x George Cox SS26 Creeper 75th anniversary collection
Photography: Vivienne Westwood / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

The Creeper at 75 — London’s most stubborn shoe returns

George Cox and Vivienne Westwood mark 75 years of the Creeper with a two-style SS26 capsule rooted in King’s Road history. The Point Toe Monk and Hatton Derby carry it forward.

Juliette Marchand · 15 Apr 2026 Read →
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A
Victoria and Albert Museum
NEW The Season · London

Schiaparelli at the V&A — The skeleton in the room

The UK’s first retrospective of Elsa Schiaparelli fills the Sainsbury Gallery with surrealist couture, Dalí collaborations, and Daniel Roseberry’s contemporary vision.

Isabelle Rowe · 14 Apr 2026 Read →
Monte-Carlo Fashion Week 2026 runway at the Yacht Club de Monaco
Photography courtesy of Monte-Carlo Fashion Week / Vanessa Von Zitzewitz
NEW The Season · Monaco

Monte-Carlo Fashion Week 2026: where the runway meets the Rivièra

Five days of couture, sustainability panels and emerging talent at the Yacht Club de Monaco and Grimaldi Forum. The fourteenth edition made the case for responsible fashion with uncommon conviction.

Margaux Delacroix · 19 Apr 2026 Read →
Chanel Métiers d'Art 2026 at the Bowery subway station
Photography courtesy of Chanel / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · New York

Chanel Métiers d’Art 2026: Blazy takes the subway

Matthieu Blazy staged eighty-one looks in a decommissioned Bowery subway station. Lesage embroidery, Lemaríe featherwork, Goossens metalwork — and a Gloria Swanson coat handwoven into tweed.

Sienna Caldwell · 14 Apr 2026 Read →
Nine films to inspire your next trip
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NEW The Stay · The Reel

Nine films to inspire your next trip

From Ripley’s Amalfi to Lost in Translation’s Park Hyatt Tokyo — and the Thai highland hotel so uncannily Wes Anderson you suspect he designed it himself.

Juliette Marchand · 14 Apr 2026 Read →
Pedro Pascal named Chanel house ambassador under Matthieu Blazy
Photography courtesy of Chanel / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

Pedro Pascal joins Chanel: Blazy's most telling casting yet

Rue Cambon has named Pedro Pascal a house ambassador. A quietly radical choice that says as much about Matthieu Blazy's Chanel as any runway look has.

Sienna Caldwell · 14 Apr 2026 Read →
The Cooper Charleston, a new luxury hotel on Charleston Harbor
Courtesy of The Cooper / Robb Report
NEW The Stay · Charleston

The Cooper Charleston: a harbourside debut with a private marina

Beemok Hospitality’s 191-room Cooper reorients Charleston towards the water, with interiors by Champalimaud, the city’s first private hotel marina, and a 1920s yacht for charter.

Camille Ashworth · 14 Apr 2026 Read →
Susan Fang Air-Infinity FW26 collection at Shanghai Fashion Week
Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Shanghai

Susan Fang FW26: Shanghai's air-woven poet reaches infinity

3D-printed armour meets floating chiffon as Susan Fang pushes her ribbon construction to its most ambitious expression yet. Shanghai Fashion Week's standout show.

Margaux Delacroix · 13 Apr 2026 Read →
The Dior Cigale bag for Spring/Summer 2026, designed by Jonathan Anderson
Photograph by Pegah Farahmand / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

Anderson turns a 1952 Dior gown into something you can carry

The Cigale bag reimagines Christian Dior’s iconic La Cigale cocktail dress as a sculptural calfskin accessory. Jonathan Anderson’s first signature bag for the house.

Léa Fontaine · 13 Apr 2026 Read →
Meryll Rogge's debut Marni AW26 collection at Milan Fashion Week
Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Milan

Rogge finds the quiet in Marni’s archive

Meryll Rogge’s debut collection for Marni channels the house’s bourgeois bohemian origins. Formafantasma built a set of reassembled domesticity. The sequins are the size of grapefruits.

Elena Voss · 12 Apr 2026 Read →
Fendi AW26 runway show, Maria Grazia Chiuri debut collection in Milan
Photography courtesy of Fendi / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Milan

Less I, more us — Chiuri returns to Fendi

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s debut collection for Fendi AW26 draws on Art Deco geometry, a shared wardrobe philosophy, and three decades of history with the house she helped build.

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The Chancery Rosewood London on Grosvenor Square
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NEW The Stay · London

Saarinen’s embassy, Dirand’s hotel

The Chancery Rosewood opens inside London’s former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square. David Chipperfield restored the modernist landmark. Joseph Dirand made it a place you want to stay.

Léa Fontaine · 11 Apr 2026 Read →
Bottega Veneta Spring Summer 2026 by Louise Trotter
CR Fashion Book
NEW The Season · Milan

Bottega Veneta SS26: Louise Trotter’s quiet revolution

The house’s first female creative director reinvents Intrecciato, introduces recycled fiberglass, and delivers a debut that rewrites Italian luxury from the inside out.

Léa Fontaine · 11 Apr 2026 Read →
The Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute 'Costume Art' exhibition 2026
Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

Met Gala 2026: Costume Art and the biggest night fashion has ever staged

Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams co-chair as the Costume Institute inaugurates a new 12,000 sq ft gallery. Andrew Bolton’s Costume Art places fashion beside antiquity and asks: was there ever a difference?

Elena Voss · 11 Apr 2026 Read →
Six Senses Milan reception area in the Brera district
Robb Report
NEW The Stay · Milan

Six Senses Milan: Brera’s new art of staying

Sixty-nine rooms on Via Brera opposite the Pinacoteca. A sky pool, a fifty-foot indoor pool, arabescato marble by Tara Bernerd and the kind of spa that makes you cancel your dinner reservation.

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Craig Green S/S 2026 collection at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Photography by Giulio Ventisei / 10 Magazine
XXXVII The Season · Paris

Craig Green’s golden hallucination in Paris

Craig Green staged his S/S 2026 show on a floor of golden sand at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Vintage bedsheet florals, glowing eyes and the spirit of the Beatles turned menswear psychedelic.

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Prada Days of Summer pop-up at Harrods London
Photography courtesy of Prada / 10 Magazine
XXXVI The Season · London

Prada turns Harrods into a gallery of light

Prada’s Days of Summer pop-up transforms Harrods’ Ground Floor into a luminous white gallery for thirty days. Three new bag lines debut alongside summer-ready womenswear and menswear in cotton, linen and Re-Nylon.

Léa Fontaine · 11 Apr 2026 Read →
Louis Vuitton trophy trunk for the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix
CR Fashion Book
XXXV The Season · Monaco

The Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco: fashion owns the grid

Louis Vuitton takes title sponsorship of the Monaco Grand Prix for 2026. A monogrammed red trophy trunk, hand-crafted at Asnières, will crown every winner. LVMH’s decade-long F1 deal rewrites fashion and motorsport.

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Maison Margiela AW 2026 show at Shanghai Fashion Week
Wallpaper*
XXXIV The Season · Shanghai

Shanghai Fashion Week FW26: Margiela opens its folders

Glenn Martens staged Maison Margiela’s AW 2026 show among shipping containers in Shanghai, then opened the house’s Dropbox archive to the world. Sixty brands. One message: the future is here.

Margaux Delacroix · 11 Apr 2026 Read →
Models in Zimmermann Cruise 2026 collection at Australian Fashion Week
CR Fashion Book
XXXIII The Season · Sydney

Australian Fashion Week 2026: Zimmermann leads Sydney’s waterfront reinvention

Zimmermann opens the schedule at Circular Quay’s MCA with a Cruise 2026 collection that channels harbour light and botanical gardens. Sydney proves it dresses differently.

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Faena New York hotel interior
Photography courtesy of Faena New York / Wallpaper*
XXXII The Stay · New York

Faena’s gilded theatre on the High Line

Alan Faena brings maximalism to West Chelsea. With the theater and Tierra Santa Healing House opening this spring, the 120-room hotel completes its vision of gold, red and leopard print at 500 West 18th Street.

Léa Fontaine · 10 Apr 2026 Read →
Louis Vuitton's The Louis floating flagship on Shanghai's Huangpu River
CR Fashion Book
XXXI The Season · Shanghai

Shanghai: luxury fashion’s new frontier

Louis Vuitton launches a floating flagship on the Huangpu, Loewe opens Asia’s largest store, and Shanghai Fashion Week proves the city no longer just consumes luxury — it defines it.

Léa Fontaine · 10 Apr 2026 Read →
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, co-founders of Dolce & Gabbana
Photography courtesy of Dolce & Gabbana / 10 Magazine
XXX The Season · Milan

Stefano Gabbana leaves the house he built, and Milan holds its breath

After four decades at Dolce & Gabbana, co-founder Stefano Gabbana has resigned as chairman. Alfonso Dolce takes the seat. The industry watches what comes next for one of Milan's defining houses.

Léa Fontaine · 10 Apr 2026 Read →
Demna's debut Gucci collection at Milan Fashion Week AW26
Photography courtesy of Gucci / 10 Magazine
XXIX The Season · Milan

Demna's Gucci debut is a love letter to Tom Ford, written in marble

At Palazzo delle Scintille, Demna staged his first Gucci runway amid plaster antiquities and travertine walls. The collection channels Ford-era sensuality through a contemporary lens, with Kate Moss closing in a diamond-set finale.

Elena Voss · 10 Apr 2026 Read →
Effie Kats elevated evening wear, Melbourne
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XXVIII The Season · Sydney

Melbourne's case for dressing up

Third-generation designer Effie Kats builds evening gowns by hand in her Melbourne workroom. Fifty years of family craft. The world is starting to notice.

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Ferrari x Charles Leclerc capsule collection for Monaco Grand Prix 2026
CR Fashion Book
XXVII The Season · Monaco

When LVMH bought the starting grid

TAG Heuer takes title sponsorship, Louis Vuitton builds the trophy trunk, Ferrari dresses Leclerc. The 2026 Monaco GP belongs to fashion now.

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Six Senses London lobby at The Whiteley, Bayswater
Wallpaper* / Six Senses
XXVII The Stay · London

The Whiteley wakes up quietly

Six Senses opens its first London hotel inside Bayswater's Victorian department store. Foster + Partners rebuilt the bones. AvroKO dressed the rooms.

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Javier Sánchez Medina weaving esparto in his Madrid studio
The Aficionados
XXVI The Season · Madrid

The hands that luxury borrows

Javier Sánchez Medina weaves esparto grass for Dior, Loewe and Tiffany from his Malasaña studio. His process is fixed. The fashion calendar bends around it.

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Miu Miu AW26 runway, Paris Fashion Week
Photography courtesy of CR Fashion Book
NEW The Season · Paris

Miu Miu A/W 2026: Small in the World, Enough in the Room

Miuccia Prada stages her autumn collection on a mossy forest floor. Gillian Anderson closes in chiffon. The clothes argue for gentleness as a position of strength.

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Celine Spring Summer 2026 collection by Michael Rider at Paris Fashion Week
Photography by Who What Wear / Paris Fashion Week
NEW The Season · Paris

Preppy reimagined

Michael Rider's debut at Celine distills Left Bank Parisian preparation through a modern eye, making collegiate codes feel fresh and covetable for spring 2026.

Léa Fontaine · 9 April 2026 Read →
Burberry A/W 2026 runway at Old Billingsgate Market, London
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · London

After dark in the city

Daniel Lee takes Burberry into London after midnight, building a Tower Bridge inside Old Billingsgate and sending out the most assured collection of his three-year tenure at the house.

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Loewe A/W 2026 runway at Château de Vincennes, Paris
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris

Play as philosophy at the Château de Vincennes

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez stage their second Loewe collection — complete with giant plush animals and a gingham-lined medieval fortress — and make a persuasive case that joy is the most demanding discipline in fashion.

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Airelles Palladio, Venezia on Giudecca island
Photo: Vincent Leroux / Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Venice

A noble arrival on the quiet island

Airelles opens its first address outside France inside the late-16th-century Bauer Palladio complex on Giudecca. Christophe Tollemer's interiors draw on Fortuny, Murano glass and Rubelli to create something that feels less like a hotel and more like a noble house.

Margaux Delacroix · 7 April 2026 Read →
Courrèges atelier, Paris
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

Courrèges, Reborn: Drew Henry Steps into the Atelier

Six days after Nicolas Di Felice’s departure, Courrèges named Drew Henry as its new artistic director. The South African designer arrives from Burberry in May, with Paris Fashion Week in his sights for September.

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Dior AW26 runway show
Photography courtesy of CR Fashion Book
NEW The Season · Monaco

Dior and the Principality: Seven Decades on the Rock

From Grace Kelly's civil ceremony dress to Charlotte Casiraghi's front row, Dior has dressed Monaco's royals for seventy years. The Riviera remains the house's second home.

Léa Fontaine · 7 April 2026 Read →
Monte-Carlo Fashion Week 2026 — aerial view of Monaco harbour
Photography courtesy of worldofsplendid.com
NEW Fashion · Monaco

Monte-Carlo Fashion Week 2026: Responsibility Looks This Good

Monte-Carlo Fashion Week returns April 14–18 with a programme built around responsible creativity, innovation, and the conviction that fashion’s next chapter should be written on the Riviera.

Margaux Delacroix · 6 April 2026 Read →
Prada AW26 runway show at Milan Fashion Week
Photography courtesy of CR Fashion Book
NEW Fashion · Milan

Milan AW26: Five Shows That Rewrote the Season

Demna’s Gucci debut. Maria Grazia Chiuri at Fendi. Meryll Rogge’s Marni. Louise Trotter’s Bottega Veneta. And Prada, as essential as ever. The five collections that defined the week.

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Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the Bowes Museum
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW Fashion · Exhibition

Vivienne Westwood: Rebel, Storyteller, Visionary

At the Bowes Museum, a new exhibition traces the arc of Westwood's career through the wardrobe of one devoted collector who spent three decades acquiring the pieces that defined an era.

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Louis Vuitton x Formula 1 — the LV monogram on a sculpted F1 car
Photography courtesy of CR Fashion Book / Louis Vuitton
NEW The Long Read · Monaco

The Grid — When fashion took the chequered flag

Louis Vuitton titles the Monaco Grand Prix. Ferrari dresses Charles Leclerc off the track. The paddock has become fashion’s most watched front row. A Long Read on speed, style, and the collision that stays.

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Amanjena resort pavilion, Marrakech
Photography courtesy of worldofsplendid.com / Splendid Magazine
NEW The Stay · Marrakech

Marrakech in April: The Rose City at Its Most Itself

April is when Marrakech finally exhales. The crowds thin, the light turns golden, and the city — from the Mouassine quarter to the olive groves of Amanjena — becomes something close to perfect.

Léa Fontaine · 5 April 2026 Read →
Paris fashion atelier — the creative directors reshaping fashion in 2026
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

The Creative Directors Reshaping Fashion in 2026

Anderson at Dior. Blazy at Chanel. Chiuri at Fendi. The most significant creative reshuffle in a generation rewrites the rules from the Tuileries to the Grand Palais.

Elena Voss · 4 April 2026 Read →
Shushu/Tong Fall 2026 presentation at Shanghai Fashion Week
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Shanghai

Shushu/Tong at Ten — The Inventive Self

A tenth anniversary. A first menswear range. A first pair of trousers. Shushu/Tong filters 1930s Paris through a sharp contemporary lens at Shanghai Fashion Week.

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Maison Margiela AW26 — ghostly figure in layered organza at Shanghai shipping yard presentation
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine / Maison Margiela
NEW The Season · Shanghai

Margiela AW26 — A Haunting in Shanghai

Glenn Martens sent unearthly figures through a Shanghai shipping yard — shattered porcelain fixed to gowns, wax-stiffened cloth, and the house’s founding obsession with anonymity reborn for 2026.

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Admiralty Arch at the end of The Mall, London — the landmark opening as the Waldorf Astoria London in May 2026
Photography by David Iliff (CC BY-SA 3.0) / Courtesy Waldorf Astoria London
NEW The Stay · London

The Arch That Waited

For over a century, Admiralty Arch stood at the threshold of The Mall. This spring, it opens as the Waldorf Astoria London — with Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud at the table.

Margaux Delacroix · 2 April 2026 Read →
Alexander McQueen De Manta bag campaign — Tim Walker photographed model Vivien Solari submerged underwater
Photography by Tim Walker / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

McQueen Returns to the Deep

The iconic De Manta bag surfaces for its first dedicated campaign, shot underwater by Tim Walker. Seán McGirr returns to McQueen’s most elemental inheritance.

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Capella Taipei hotel interior — marble vestibule and bronze doors by André Fu
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper* / Capella Hotels & Resorts
NEW The Stay · Taipei

The Quiet Room at the Top

Capella Taipei wins the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Opening. André Fu’s modern mansion finally gives the Taiwanese capital a hotel worthy of the city.

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Lotte World Tower and Seoul skyline at dusk
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Seoul

Fashion Week Ready — Seoul’s beauty capital has your face covered

Seoul is the world’s beauty capital. Before the shows at DDP, the city’s clinics offer aesthetic precision the rest of the world is still catching up to. We visit Newstar Clinic in Gangnam.

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Seoul skyline with Songeun Art Space by Herzog and de Meuron
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Seoul

Seoul Fashion Week — The city that dresses differently

Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Blindness, Post Archive Faction, Miss Sohee. The Korean designers rewriting the rules from Seongsu to the Haute Couture calendar.

Elena Voss · 30 March 2026 Read →
Gyeongbokgung Palace reflected in water at night, Seoul
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Seoul

Seoul Hotels — Where to stay for fashion week

Signiel Seoul on the 76th floor of Lotte World Tower. Rakkojae’s heated ondol floors in Bukchon. The best hotels in the Korean capital, mapped to the shows.

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Balenciaga A/W 2026 ClairObscur runway with Euphoria screens
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris

ClairObscur — Piccioli meets Euphoria in the dark

Eighty-one looks beneath a narrow strip of light. Pierpaolo Piccioli’s second Balenciaga collection, staged on the Champs-Élysées with Sam Levinson’s Euphoria screens as backdrop.

Léa Fontaine · 30 March 2026 Read →
The Delano Miami Beach, Art Deco facade
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Miami

The Delano Returns — Miami Beach gets its legend back

Philippe Starck’s Art Deco icon reopens on Collins Avenue. The Rose Bar is back. Two Paris Society restaurants arrive for the first time in the US.

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Chanel FW26 runway look by Matthieu Blazy at the Grand Palais, Paris
Photography by Christina Fragkou / 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · Paris

Chanel FW26 — Matthieu Blazy and the Art of Becoming

At the Grand Palais, Blazy's second collection proved that Chanel's greatest strength has always been its contradictions, and that no one had simply trusted them enough to make the contradiction itself the point.

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Jonathan Anderson's Dior A/W 2026 show in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris
Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris

Dior A/W 2026 — Jonathan Anderson takes a walk in the Tuileries

A circular runway around a pond in the Tuileries Gardens. Anderson’s sophomore womenswear collection for Dior, built in under a month, is about seeing and being seen.

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Miramalfi hotel terrace overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, Amalfi Coast
Photography courtesy of World of Splendid
NEW The Stay · Amalfi

Miramalfi — The Amalfi Coast Hotel That Earns Its View

Perched above the limestone cliffs outside Amalfi town, Miramalfi has arrived at a rare understanding: that the best thing a hotel can do on this particular coast is get out of the way, and let the Tyrrhenian Sea do what it has always done.

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Willy Chavarria x Zara Vatísimo campaign — Spring 2026
Photography by Glen Luchford / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · New York

Vatísimo — Willy Chavarria brings Chicano pride to the high street

Willy Chavarria’s capsule collection for Zara arrives as something rarer than a collaboration: a public statement about who fashion is actually for, and what it owes the cultures it has always borrowed from.

Elena Voss · 28 March 2026 Read →
Public West Hollywood — Ian Schrager and John Pawson on the Sunset Strip
Public West Hollywood — Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
NEW The Stay · Los Angeles

Public West Hollywood — luxury for all on the Sunset Strip

Ian Schrager’s second Public hotel opens this spring, designed by John Pawson. A 137-room argument that the best design in the world should not require a financial reckoning before booking.

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Backstage at Courrèges A/W 2026, Nicolas Di Felice’s final collection
Photography by Delphine Achard / Wallpaper*
NEW The Season · Paris

The Di Felice Years: how Courrèges came back to life

Nicolas Di Felice departs Courrèges after five transformative years. His final collection was a cinematic meditation on a Parisian woman’s day, and one of the most complete farewells Paris has seen in years.

Léa Fontaine · 27 March 2026 Read →
Christopher Kane, creative director of womenswear at Mulberry
Christopher Kane — Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
NEW The Season · London

Christopher Kane at Mulberry — the appointment that makes sense of everything

Mulberry names Christopher Kane creative director of womenswear. After years of quiet recalibration, the Scottish designer arrives at Britain’s most storied leather house with a point to prove about what British fashion looks like when it stops trying to be anything else.

Margaux Delacroix · 27 March 2026 Read →
Paris — June Men's Fashion Week
Paris
Preview — Coming June 2026 The Season · Men’s

What the men’s shows need to say this June

Milan then Paris, late June. After a women’s season that rewarded precision over spectacle, the men’s circuit arrives with questions to answer — and a generation of designers ready to answer them differently.

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Luxury hotel bedroom, New York
Photography by Yoshida Takahiro — courtesy of The Mercer Hotel, New York
III The Edit · New York

Seven rooms for September

September in New York requires a particular kind of base. You will leave it early and return late, overstimulated and hungry. The Mercer in SoHo has long been the answer for those who know where the shows really happen — not in the tents, but in the restaurants on Spring Street afterwards.

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Aman Tokyo — the signature wooden-lattice lobby
Photography courtesy of Aman Tokyo — © Mark Seelen
IV The Stay · Tokyo

Hinoki. Silence. Tokyo.

At the Aman Tokyo, occupying the upper floors of the Otemachi Tower, silence is a considered offering. The rooms are arranged so the city disappears below rather than pressing in at eye level, and the bath — deep hinoki wood — is a genuine argument for Tokyo as a fashion week destination in its own right.

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Runway presentation at the Opéra Garnier, Paris Fashion Week
Opéra Garnier runway — Photography via Fashion PR Firm
VI The Season · Paris

When the Opéra Garnier became a runway

On the evening of March 3rd, three emerging design houses — ARAS Nancy, La Daríque, and The Muse — staged their collections inside Paris’s most storied opera house. Diamonds, ceremony, and the art of becoming the inspiration.

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Palais Garnier grand staircase, Paris — venue for immersive fashion shows
Palais Garnier, Paris — Grand Escalier
X Fashion · Culture

When the set becomes the show

Designers are building worlds, not just collections. From Chanel’s Grand Palais forest to Valentino’s Kaiserpanorama, fashion’s new theatrical turn.

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Chloé Autumn/Winter 2026, Paris Fashion Week
Chloé AW26 — Photography by Stéphane Feugere / Getty Images via CR Fashion Book
XI The Edit · FW26

The FW26 Edit: What the season told us

Five themes that defined the collections — from sensual tailoring to immersive world-building — distilled from Paris to Berlin.

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Florence — Pitti Uomo June 2026, Simone Rocha guest designer
Simone Rocha — Pitti Uomo 2026
XII The Season · Florence

Simone Rocha at Pitti Uomo: what her first menswear show needs to be

The most consequential Pitti guest designer appointment in years — and the questions it raises about where menswear is headed in June 2026.

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Florence — Palazzo and Duomo skyline, Pitti Uomo hotel guide
Florence — JK Place Firenze
XIII The Stay · Florence

Where to stay in Florence during Pitti Uomo

The Four Seasons garden, the Portrait on the Arno, the Savoy bar at midnight. A frank guide to Florence’s best hotels for the trade fair week.

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John Galliano returns to fashion via Zara partnership
AW26 Collection
XIV The Commentary · Fashion

John Galliano returns to fashion — and the venue says everything

The partnership with Zara is not a compromise. It is a declaration about who fashion belongs to now — and who Galliano has always been designing for.

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Valentino AW26 at Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Rome — Palazzo Barberini
XV The Show · Rome

Valentino comes home to Rome

Alessandro Michele staged AW26 at Palazzo Barberini. The choice was not sentimental. It was structural — and it changed how the collection read.

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A/W 2026 Fashion Week runway models
Unvain AW26 — Photography by Boris Marberg for Berlin Fashion Week
XVI The Season · Fashion Week

A/W 2026 reveals a season of balance and romance

From New York through London, Milan, and Paris, the autumn-winter shows showcase six defining trends: layered sophistication, dominating black, colourful textural play, slip dress reinvention, contemporary romance, and a new fluidity in power suiting.

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Creative design process in a fashion studio
Chloé AW26
XVII The Season · Chloé

Chemena Kamali returns to Chloé as Creative Director

After twice serving under visionary leadership at the Parisian house, Chemena Kamali takes the helm as Creative Director. Her third tenure signals not a return, but a completion.

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John Galliano — Zara creative partnership
John Galliano — Photography courtesy of Wallpaper*
XVIII The Edit · Fashion

Galliano joins Zara: when genius meets the masses

John Galliano’s two-year creative partnership with Zara marks an unprecedented intersection — haute couture sensibility applied to democratic fashion. We examine what it means for both.

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Mountain landscape — Big Sky, Montana
One&Only Moonlight Basin, Montana
XIX The Stay · Montana

One&Only Moonlight Basin: grace in the mountains

One&Only’s first US property arrives in Big Sky, Montana — eighty acres of alpine calm. The architecture doesn’t compete with the landscape. It defers to it.

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Kyoto — temple garden and traditional architecture
Aman Kyoto
XX The Stay · Kyoto

Capella arrives in Kyoto

The Singapore-based luxury group opens its most considered property yet — a former imperial textile warehouse transformed into a study in discipline, ceremony, and earned quiet.

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A hotel that understands summer does not announce it. The pool is cold at eight in the morning. The terrace has shade by noon. The bar knows when to stop trying to impress you.

Splendid — The Splendid Edit, Issue No. 05

The Long Read

The Grid in Monaco

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Charles Leclerc for the Ferrari capsule collection — the Monaco Grand Prix’s fashion moment

Photography courtesy of CR Fashion Book / Ferrari

The Long Read — Issue 03 The Season · Monaco

When fashion took the chequered flag

Louis Vuitton now titles the Monaco Grand Prix. Ferrari dresses Charles Leclerc off the track. The paddock has become fashion’s most watched front row. The question is no longer whether fashion belongs at the circuit. It is whether fashion can keep up.

Twenty-four race weekends per season. A new generation of style figures tracked by millions. LVMH on the trophy, on the timing screens, on the podium. The most demanding street circuit in the world is now, in practical terms, a fashion event.

By Camille Ashworth Monaco — April 2026 12 min read
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From the current season

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Paris fashion atelier interior with natural light
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
The Season · Paris

The creative directors reshaping fashion in 2026

Anderson at Dior. Blazy at Chanel. Chiuri at Fendi. The most significant creative reshuffle in a generation rewrites the rules.

Shanghai fashion show venue with dramatic lighting
Photography courtesy of 10 Magazine
The Season · Shanghai

Shushu/Tong at ten: The Inventive Self

A tenth anniversary. A first menswear range. A first pair of trousers. Shushu/Tong filters 1930s Paris through a sharp lens at Shanghai Fashion Week.

The Lake Como EDITION — restored palazzo exterior at night
Photography courtesy of The Lake Como EDITION
The Stay · Lake Como

The Lake Como EDITION: Worth every waitlist

Neri & Hu bring refined modernism to a restored 19th-century palazzo. A contemporary retreat on the lake’s quietest shore.

The 10,000 sq ft secret garden, Bulgari Hotel Milano
Photography courtesy of Bulgari Hotel Milano — © Richard Powers
The Stay · Milan

The garden that holds up during Milan Fashion Week

The Bulgari Hotel’s private garden performs a function no other Milan hotel can replicate: it makes the industry feel briefly optional.

Elegant Paris hotel lobby, fashion week season
Photography courtesy of La Fondation Hôtel, Paris — © Nicolas Anetson
The Season · Paris

Three hotels that passed every test during Paris Fashion Week

Le Méurice, La Fondation, and the quietly exceptional Hôtel des Grands Boulevards. One expensive property north of the Louvre did not survive our scrutiny.

Aman Tokyo — the 30m indoor pool, Otemachi
Photography courtesy of Aman Tokyo — © Mark Seelen
City Guide · Tokyo

Tokyo between the shows

What happens to the city when the schedule allows for a morning walk. The Aman’s relationship with silence. A ramen shop in Ginza that doesn’t care who you are.

Luxury hotel suite, New York
Photography courtesy of The Mercer Hotel, New York — © Yoshida Takahiro
The Edit · New York

September, again

The tote bag of show notes, the SoHo hotel that never lets you down, and the restaurant table you need to book before noon on Monday.

City Guides

The fashion week cities

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Paris, France
Paris Couture · SS · AW 14 hotels · 9 guides
Duomo di Milano at sunset, Milan, Italy
Milan SS · AW 11 hotels · 7 guides
London skyline and River Thames at golden hour
London SS · AW 12 hotels · 8 guides
New York City skyline with the Chrysler Building
New York SS · AW · Bridal 16 hotels · 10 guides
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo SS · AW 8 hotels · 5 guides
Seoul skyline with Lotte World Tower at dusk
Seoul SS · AW 3 hotels · 3 guides
Shanghai skyline viewed from the Bund
Shanghai SS · AW 3 hotels · 3 guides
Sydney Opera House and harbour
Sydney Resort 2 guides
Monaco harbour and coastline aerial view
Monaco Cruise · Grand Prix 3 hotels · 3 guides
Copenhagen harbour architecture
Copenhagen SS · AW 2 guides
Hotel Season

The stays worth the journey

Paris fashion week — the hotels that held up
Paris Hotel Season — Summer 2026

Paris in summer: the hotels that know the difference

When the industry leaves and the tourists arrive, Paris reveals which hotels were built for a sustained season and which were designed around a fortnight of fashion weeks. The best addresses in the city do not change their character when the shows end. They simply become easier to get into.

Photography courtesy of Le Méurice, Paris — © Dorchester Collection Read the full dispatch
Aman Tokyo — the 30m indoor pool
Tokyo Hotel Season — Summer 2026

Tokyo at altitude: the Aman case for the upper floors

In summer, when the city below runs at full pressure, the upper floors of the Otemachi Tower become an argument for vertical distance as a form of rest. The Aman Tokyo has understood this from the beginning. The 30-metre pool, the hinoki bath, the quality of the silence at 33 floors above street level — these are not amenities. They are the architecture of recovery.

Photography courtesy of Aman Tokyo — © Mark Seelen Read the full review
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