The Splendid Edit — Issue No. 04 — Summer 2026 A Splendid Media Publication — worldofsplendid.com
The Stay — Lake Como

Cover Story · Issue 04

Worth every
waitlist.

Neri & Hu bring refined modernism to a restored nineteenth-century palazzo on Lake Como’s quietest shore. The EDITION’s first Italian address is not interested in competing with the lake. It is interested in framing it.

By Léa Fontaine Lake Como · Autumn 2026 7 min read
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The Lake Como EDITION — lakefront pool with mountain panorama

The Lake Como EDITION — Photography courtesy of Marriott International

Opening — Autumn 2026

The Lake Como EDITION — Lakefront Pool

Issue No. 04 — 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. 04 — 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.

In This Issue

From Issue No. 04

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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 →
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
Film stills · Studio publicity
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
Wallpaper*
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. 04

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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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

All city guides
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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