The September to remember—Meet the class of Spring 2026, AKA the new fashion week designers

For the past two years, one of the most talked-about topics at Vogue Runway—and among fashion week designers and the industry at large—has been fashion’s big vibe shift. When we started talking about it, we couldn’t have guessed just how big of a shift we’d be getting. Reports of new designer appointments came every month of 2025, with the exception of April and August.

Now, the endless speculation is finally coming to an end: We will witness 15 designer debuts at the spring 2026 ready-to-wear shows.

Although many of the fashion week designers involved in this re-shuffle are familiar faces like Pierpaolo Piccioli and Demna, their stakes are as high, if not more so, than those of the designers stepping into the spotlight for the first time. For the first time in decades, the Christian Dior label will be under one creative director, meaning Jonathan Anderson will be working on at least 10 collections a year between menswear, womenswear, and couture. Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, long New York fashion’s golden boys, have left the city and the Proenza Schouler label they founded more than 20 years ago to take a gamble in Paris at Loewe. Perhaps no one is feeling more pressure than Matthieu Blazy, whose debut at Chanel will fittingly take place on the final day of shows.

The industry-wide shakeups are allowing new talent to rise, whether that’s relative unknowns like Nicholas Aburn at Area, and Miguel Castro Freitas at Mugler, or designers who have toiled as second-in-commands behind the scenes and now get to call the shots like Versace’s Dario Vitale and Carven’s Mark Thomas.

It’s a lot of names and places to remember, so we’ve put together a yearbook to commemorate what is sure to be a season that changes fashion. Meet the designers of the Class of Spring 2026.

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