Fashion / Society

The great creative director reshuffle of SS26, illustrated

By Allyson Shiffman

For the spring/summer '26 season, we witnessed fashion history being written as an unprecedented game of creative director musical chairs found 16 designers making their runway debuts at 16 fashion houses. As the dust settles on the great reshuffling, we take stock of the fresh takes for SS26 as Paris-based Swedish illustrator Lovisa Burfitt captures a handful of the season’s highlights