An independent fashion notebookOctober 2026 / Edition 01
RUNWAY NOTE.
The runway notebooks

Look beyond
the first impression.

Selected collection notes from 2026, a new-season Seoul photo notebook and an archive with a longer memory.

New YorkA close reading of Tory Burch’s Fall/Winter 2026 detail, plus an archive study and a guide to fashion’s seasonal calendar.MilanPrada’s layers and skirt variations, a Gucci viewing guide, and an archival lesson in mixing prints.ParisCouture handwork, botanical ideas and experiments in form. Read our selected Dior, Loewe, Schiaparelli and Saint Laurent notes.

Begin with a closer look

Editorial illustration of a brown coat layered over an ivory shirt and dark trousers
AI-created editorial illustration; not a runway photograph or a representation of a designer’s actual garment. About our imagery
Runway / The big read

What the 2026 catwalk is asking us to reconsider

Layering, saturated colour and clothes with more than one identity. A selective guide to the ideas worth taking off the runway.

AW26 • 3 min read
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.
Runway / Photo notebook

From Seoul, a lesson in contrasts

Real runway photographs from 1 September 2026: printed surfaces, long outer layers and the tension between dress codes.

SS27 • 2 min read
Runway / The explainer

Shown in 2026. Made for 2027.

A short guide to reading runway dates without mixing up the year of a show and the season of a collection.

Season guide • 2 min read