London Fashion Week has always had a particular relationship with beauty. It rarely asks for perfection, and Spring/Summer 2027 was no different. Across the city’s runways, makeup and hair moved between restraint and excess, bare lashes against saturated lips, skin turned almost metallic, sculptural updos and wigs that transformed the wearer in an instant. Beauty was not treated as a finishing touch to the clothes. It became part of the visual language of the collections.
Abena Bambi has not posted an image that misreads her audience in years, and that consistency is precisely what makes the next stage of her career worth examining closely. Every campaign has been polished, legible, and recognisably feminine, built around a visual grammar that rarely strays far from the one she established when she started. The travel, the hair, the tennis looks, and the soft-life staging have meanwhile become some of the most efficiently constructed lifestyle content coming out of Accra, and the distance between the ease she performs and the discipline required to produce it is the most revealing thing happening around her right now.
Venus Williams has spent most of her life being watched in motion. On a tennis court, every step has consequence, where you stand, how much space you leave, the angle of your body, the distance between yourself and the person across the net. It is a life built around reading space before anyone else does. So perhaps it makes sense that, away from the court, Williams became obsessed with another kind of spatial intelligence. She founded V Starr Interiors in 2002, turning an instinct for proportion, atmosphere and movement into a design practice. Now, with her first furniture and décor collection for Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids, she is taking that relationship with space somewhere more intimate, into the home.
Television’s significant night was always going to be about the shows, the performances and the trophies, but by the time the stars reached the blue carpet at the 78th Emmy Awards, the conversation had already shifted. Fashion had its own ceremony to conduct. Los Angeles became a moving catalogue of couture, sharp tailoring, polished beauty and carefully engineered silhouettes, with celebrities arriving at the Peacock Theater looking less like attendees and more like characters entering another world. The carpet was not particularly interested in excess for excess’s sake. Instead, it revealed a growing appetite for clothes that understood the value of restraint, construction and presence.
The NYFW is in full effect, and somewhere between the established houses and the season’s familiar names, Kai Cenat has made a particularly interesting entrance. Not as a streamer who happens to have a clothing line, but as a creative willing to step away from the thing that made him famous and see what else he could become. At Cipriani in Lower Manhattan, VIVET presented its Spring Summer 2027 debut as a three-act study of evolution, moving through menswear, womenswear, footwear and leather goods. The significance was less about a celebrity entering fashion than it was about watching a creator translate an identity built on the internet into something physical, tactile and deliberately made.
A$AP Rocky is continuing to push AWGE beyond the boundaries of a traditional artist-led fashion label. For Spring/Summer 2026, the rapper returned to Paris Fashion Week with “Obligatory Fashion,” the second collection from AWGE and a sharper statement of where he wants the brand to go. Presented at L’Église Protestante Unie de l’Étoile, the collection examines the clothes people are expected to wear, turning uniforms, workwear, tailoring and streetwear into something deliberately exaggerated and distinctly AWGE.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final transformed MetLife Stadium into a global fashion theatre where celebrity style rivalled the drama on the pitch. Every arrival carried intention, every silhouette reflected personality, and every photograph captured a moment where sport and culture moved in perfect harmony. The world’s biggest sporting event became a celebration of taste, confidence and identity, proving that football’s grandest occasion now belongs as much to fashion as it does to the game itself.
For Louis Vuitton’s Spring-Summer 2027 Men’s Collection, Pharrell Williams turned to the ocean as both inspiration and philosophy, presenting a collection that explored surfing not simply as a sport, but as a universal way of life. Unveiled against the backdrop of a monumental 26-foot wave in Paris, the show transformed the runway into an immersive coastal landscape, positioning the sea and shoreline as spaces of connection, movement, and shared human experience. In doing so, Williams continued his broader project at Louis Vuitton, expanding fashion beyond clothing and into cultural storytelling.