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Style trends 2026: what people are actually wearing this year
Forget minimalism. 2026 fashion is bohemian, playful, and weirdly nostalgic, with a confidence that yesterday's good taste is today's boring.
Feb 1, 2026
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Fashion
New York Opens Fashion Month With a Debut and Closes It With Thom Browne
Seventy shows across six days, spring collections shown in autumn, and a designer taking over a house whose founder's name is still on the door. The September calendar is set.
Aug 16, 2026
Fashion
Secondhand Fashion Has Become a Style Signal, Not a Compromise
Preowned clothing is moving into the center of fashion as shoppers pursue value, individuality and access while brands reconsider their resale strategies.
Jul 31, 2026
Fashion
Royal Purple Is Fall 2026's Shortcut to Looking Intentional
The season's saturated purple works best as a decisive color block, not a costume. Here is how to wear it with denim, brown, grey and evening black.
Jul 27, 2026
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Jazz Shoes Are Fashion's Softer Answer to the Statement Sneaker
Flat lace-ups borrowed from dance studios are giving summer wardrobes a lighter alternative to chunky sneakers and fragile ballet flats.
Jul 27, 2026
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Nobody Can Agree How Big Modest Fashion Is, and That Is the Story
One widely cited figure puts the category at 86 billion dollars. Another puts it at 254 billion. The gap is not a rounding error, it is a disagreement about what modest fashion actually is.
Aug 16, 2026
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Fashion's Autumn Answer to a Decade of Beige Is Everything at Once
Tartan, tuxedos, trains, brocade and thigh high boots all landed in the same season. After years of quiet luxury, the autumn runways went loud on purpose.
Aug 4, 2026
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Scandi Denim Is Going Global Without Losing Its Restraint
Jeanerica's international growth shows why Scandinavian denim is resonating: familiar fits, controlled branding and clothes designed to repeat.
Jul 28, 2026
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Brazilcore Is Bigger Than a Flag-Color Outfit
Brazilcore is spreading through sport, music and streetwear, but its most compelling expression comes from local creativity rather than copied symbols.
Jul 27, 2026
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Fashion Brands Spent Years Fighting Resale. Now They Want to Run It
Secondhand is a 393 billion dollar market and roughly a tenth of all money spent on clothing. Zara, H&M, Levi's and others are building their own platforms to capture a trade they used to ignore.
Aug 17, 2026
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The Open Bag Trend Turns Luxury Inside Out
Unfastened handbags and visible linings are moving from runway provocation to celebrity styling, replacing polished secrecy with deliberate disorder.
Jul 27, 2026
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Fashion Has Rediscovered Colour, and Picked Lilac to Prove It
Pantone named Burnished Lilac and Amethyst Orchid for the season while runways ran rainbow brights. After a decade of neutrals, saturation is the statement.
Aug 6, 2026
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The Gulf Lost Up to a Quarter of Its Luxury Shoppers. The Brands Responded by Moving Further Upmarket
Bain puts the shrinkage in the Gulf's luxury customer base at 15 to 25 per cent in early 2026 while the Americas surged. The industry's answer to losing aspirational buyers has been to stop trying to keep them.
Aug 18, 2026
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Bag Charms Survived the Backlash and Multiplied
Everyone predicted the keyring pile-up would end with 2025. Instead it consolidated into a couple of dominant styles and became a permanent accessories category.
Aug 6, 2026
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Sheer Dressing Is Back and the Argument Came With It
Illusion gowns and transparent couture are dominating red carpets again, and the online reaction is as reliable as the trend. Both are doing exactly what they are designed to do.
Aug 6, 2026
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The Slim Suit Is Finally Over, and What Replaced It Asks More of the Wearer Than of the Tailor
Menswear has spent two years moving from ultra-slim to relaxed but refined, and the shift is harder than it sounds. A narrow suit hides its faults on the hanger. A generous one does not.
Aug 21, 2026
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Power Suiting Returns, This Time With Controlled Volume
Oversized tailoring is back, but the 2026 version insists on proportion. Tonal dressing does the rest, building an outfit from one colour family instead of contrast.
Aug 6, 2026
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The Barrel Jean Is Being Quietly Talked Out of the Room
Two years of exaggerated curved legs are giving way to restrained shapes, brown washes and embellishment. The silhouette is not dead, it is being sanded down.
Aug 6, 2026
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Luxury Is Growing in Euros and Shrinking in People, and It Has Lost Sixty Million Customers Since 2022
Bain and Altagamma expect personal luxury goods to reach as much as 373 billion euros in 2026. The same research shows the customer base falling from 400 million to 340 million. Both numbers describe the same strategy.
Aug 22, 2026
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Modest fashion's global moment and the GCC's role in it
Once niche, modest fashion is now a USD 295 billion market, and the GCC's influence is reshaping global style. Major luxury brands are paying attention.
Jul 30, 2024
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Sustainable fashion: progress report on a promise
After years of greenwashing, the secondhand market is growing 11x faster than retail. Real progress on sustainability exists, but the scale of waste remains sobering.
Sep 15, 2025
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Fashion Spent Two Years Changing Every Designer It Had. Now Comes the Part That Counts.
Jonathan Saunders starts at Kate Spade today, near the end of the largest reshuffle of creative leadership the industry has run. Fifteen debuts landed in a single season. Almost nobody is asking whether it worked.
Aug 26, 2026
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Dolce and Gabbana Is Selling Its Buildings and Twenty Four Years of Eyewear to Buy Nineteen Months
The house lost more than 100 million euros at the operating line and breached its bank covenants. The banks have waived the terms until March 2028, on condition that a set of extraordinary transactions is completed by June next year.
Aug 29, 2026
Design
One Colour Authority Named a White for 2026, the Other Named Three Blues, and Designers Are Selling Brown
Pantone chose Cloud Dancer. Dulux broke its own format and chose a family of blues. Meanwhile the survey of what interior designers say clients actually request puts chocolate brown and maximalism at the top. Three answers, one year.
Aug 22, 2026
Sports
World Cup 2026 Group Stage: The Shocks That Rewrote the Script
Cape Verde held Spain, Uruguay went home early, and the expanded World Cup delivered its most chaotic opening rounds yet.
Jun 28, 2026
Latest Trends
How consumers plan to spend differently in 2026
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025
Latest Trends
The Rest of the World Has Started Wearing Perfume the Way the Gulf Always Has
Higher concentrations, heavier notes, oud at the centre and fragrance treated as something you layer rather than spray. The global market has moved toward a regional habit, and Middle Eastern houses are no longer the niche option.
Aug 21, 2026
