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London Fashion Week 2026: The five trends we'll see in spring
Alexander McQueen made a historic return to London Fashion Week after 25 years, staging a homecoming show that fused severe tailoring with dark romanticism
This London Fashion Week has been about return and renewal - as two of Britain's biggest designers showcased their spring/summer 2027 designs.
The first was Alexander McQueen, which as a brand moved to London after 25 years of showing in Paris - something Laura Weir, CEO of the British Fashion Council, told the BBC was "quite a big deal for us".
Creative director Seán McGirr brought the brand back to its roots, with a runway of devil horns, lace corsets and chainmail skull dresses.
Mulberry was the second designer to make its big return, this time after a nine-year absence, with Christopher Kane's debut collection centring around the brand's Baywater bag, while going big on leather in the form of coats, skirts and loafers.
Weir says the "big mission" for her and her team this season was to "re-platform London Fashion Week as not only a home for British design, but an engine for creativity and commercial growth".
Here are some of the major trends to come out of London Fashion Week 2026:
Rejecting "quiet luxury" uniforms, Chopova Lowena, Sinead Gorey, and Conner Ives led London Fashion Week's embrace of the "messy girl" aesthetic by championing deliberate chaos, pairing intentionally undone tailoring and messy updos
"The number one trend for this season is messy girl," says Elektra Kotsoni, deputy director for Vogue Business and Vogue Runway, whose team predicts the trends ahead of each season.
She tells the BBC: "We're going to be having a messy girl summer" and says "it's a reaction to the clean girl and quite luxury aesthetics that took over our Instagram feeds," last year.