Articles by Don-Alvin Adegeest
The hits - and misses - of the Spring Summer 2026 debuts
For months the fashion industry has been speculating, discussing, and looking for clues about what would become one of the most significant fashion weeks of the decade. After a wave of new creative director appointments, everyone was waiting for that a-ha moment — the one that signals a clear shift in direction. Would it be a full revolution?...
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How a new wave of U.S. designers is reshaping Paris fashion
Not since Marc Jacobs’ transformative tenure at Louis Vuitton has Paris seen such a wave of American creative leadership. This Spring Summer 2026 season, three shows stood out: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s assured debut at Loewe, Daniel Roseberry’s commanding outing at Schiaparelli, and Michael Rider’s sophomore collection at Celine....
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What Indeed’s “hard-to-fill” jobs list reveals about the state of fashion retail
In fashion, we often obsess over the rarefied: the couturier with a hand like poetry, the stylist who can pull a look together with three pins and a prayer, the buyer with an instinct for what the world will want next season. But sometimes the true cracks in the system show up somewhere less glamorous: on the shop floor. Indeed’s latest list of...
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Milan Fashion Week was a season of reckoning and renewal
Milan Fashion Week this September was as much an event behind the scenes as it was on the runway. The tides of fashion have rarely shifted as abruptly as in 2025, and both the spectacle and the machinery of the industry now unfold under intense scrutiny. According to the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Italy’s fashion industry generates...
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Gucci wipes the slate clean as Demna debuts La Famiglia
Few moments in fashion feel genuinely pivotal, but the winds of change swept through Gucci on Monday, when the Florentine fashion house erased its social media and presented 37 looks for the season. It was a bold debut by Demna, who, instead of staging a catwalk show, unveiled the collection within a short film by directors Spike Jonze and...
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Michael Kors refines London presence with smaller Regent Street flagship
Michael Kors’s new Regent Street flagship joins London’s luxury landscape with leaner splendour. The Capri Holdings-owned brand has reimagined a London flagship at 187-191 Regent Street this month, occupying a two-storey space of 848 square metres. The new store reflects a shift in the brand’s posture: pared-down luxury, underplayed glamour,...
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Britain’s retail mood darkens as inflation bites
Consumer confidence in the UK slipped further in September, with fashion and retail sectors feeling the blunt of swelling cost pressures. According to recent BRC-Opinium data, optimism about the economy deteriorated: expectations for its state over the next three months dropped to -36, from -32 in August. Personal financial outlook also edged...
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JCA’s rooftop MA show will bring fresh voices to London Fashion Week
This week, the JCA | London Fashion Academy returns with its fourth annual MA show, a showcase of boundary pushing design, brand innovation and sustainable practice from its graduating cohort. Slated for Friday 19 September, the event will be staged at the newly opened rooftop beach club in White City Living, in partnership with St James, part...
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High Street fashion under pressure amid rising costs and shrinking labour pool
Retail employment in the UK has entered a troubling downturn. According to the latest report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there were 2.73 million jobs in retail in June 2025. The four-quarter average, which smooths out seasonal hiring variations, stood at 2.78 million jobs, some 97,000 fewer than at the same point last year, and...
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Cinemoda Club: Where fashion meets film during Milan Fashion Week
After a teaser announcement over the summer, Vogue Italia and Kering’s first-ever Cinemoda Club opens next week across three of Milan’s most storied independent cinemas, Arlecchino, Mexico and Palestrina, coinciding with Milan Fashion Week. The three-day programme (25–27 September) aims to do more than entertain; it positions cinema as a living...
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