An independent fashion notebookOctober 2026 / Edition 01
RUNWAY NOTE.
Provenance matters

Photography
& sources.

Archive images keep their original dates. None of the licensed New York, Milan or Paris photographs below is presented as a 2026 runway photograph.

Felix Bujold walks the William Rast runway, New York Fashion Week, February 2009. Archive photograph.

Felix Bujold walks the William Rast runway, New York Fashion Week, February 2009. Archive photograph. Photograph: Kris Krug. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; uncropped.

Adut Akech on the Roberto Cavalli Fall/Winter 2022 runway, Milan, 23 February 2022. Archive photograph.

Adut Akech on the Roberto Cavalli Fall/Winter 2022 runway, Milan, 23 February 2022. Archive photograph. Photograph: Christopher Macsurak. Source · CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; uncropped.

Chanel Iman on the Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2009–10 runway, Paris, 6 July 2009. Archive photograph.

Chanel Iman on the Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2009–10 runway, Paris, 6 July 2009. Archive photograph. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images. Source · CC BY 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; uncropped.

Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, 1 September 2026. House not identified by the source.

Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, 1 September 2026. House not identified by the source. Photograph: Park dae jin / Republic of Korea, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Source · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; uncropped.

Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, 1 September 2026. House not identified by the source.

Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, 1 September 2026. House not identified by the source. Photograph: Park dae jin / Republic of Korea, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Source · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; uncropped.

Original editorial illustrations

The brown-coat street scene, cobalt-coat and red-scarf portrait, sculptural black gown on a mannequin, and fabric still life were created with an AI image generator for this publication. They are illustrations of fashion ideas, not documentary evidence or depictions of particular designer garments. They are labelled where they appear.

Decorative print

The black-and-ivory zebra accents are an AI-created graphic texture made for this publication.

Article sources

Collection studies link their references beneath each article. Practical exercises are original editorial proposals. No claim of show attendance, product testing or an interview is implied.

Typefaces

DM Sans and Fraunces are self-hosted under the SIL Open Font License. Their licence files are retained with the website source.