By this time of the year, most industries have found their footing, but across the worlds of fashion and beauty, there is little room for pause.

As the mood shifts from tentative beginnings to something more assured, particularly with fashion month and awards season behind us, it’s a time of movement that has us struggling to keep up.

So, to help keep you updated, consider this a snapshot of everything to have on your radar this month.

Fashion news and beauty launches

Weekend Max Mara celebrates expression with new collaborations

Weekend Max Mara’s latest Signature Capsule Collection, A Weekend with an Artist, takes a familiar wardrobe staple and gives it a painterly twist. At its centre is the Canasta trench, a longstanding house icon reimagined by five globally recognised artists: Victoria Kosheleva, Paola Pivi, Tschabalala Self, Tai Shani and Shafei Xia.

Selected by curator Francesco Bonami, each artist approaches the trench as a blank canvas. Kosheleva brings a kind of cyber-expressionist intensity, while Pivi’s rainbow stripes feel sun-soaked and playful. Self introduces her signature Infinity Flowers, Shani leans into glossy black vinyl with irreverent illustration, and Xia offers something more poetic, with watercolour motifs that explore femininity and strength. The silhouette remains unchanged, allowing the artistry to speak.

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Adidas taps superstars for Superstar campaign

Few sneakers have managed to remain culturally relevant across decades quite like the Superstar, and Adidas Originals’ latest campaign leans confidently into that legacy. Titled “Superstars,” it stars Samuel L. Jackson alongside a cast spanning music, sport and fashion, including familiar faces such as JENNIE and Kendall Jenner, as well as James Harden and Lamine Yamal.

Set within the surreal “Hotel Superstar,” the campaign plays with the idea of time—or rather, the absence of it. As Jackson moves through its corridors, each room reveals a different cultural force, all united by the same shoe. Directed by Thibaut Grevet, it’s cinematic without being overly polished, allowing personality to take centre stage.

The collection itself follows suit, with classic black-and-white being sharpened with red accents, while apparel expands into looser tailoring, denim and even crochet.

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Gucci unveils See-Now-Buy-Now edit for Primavera collection 

Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2026 Primavera collection arrives with disruption. Following Demna’s debut show in February, the House has introduced a see-now, buy-now edit—a curated selection available immediately, well ahead of the collection’s official July release.

Equally notable is the digital experience. Presented through a newly designed platform, the collection unfolds sequentially, inviting users to navigate it as they might a show, making it less a traditional window-shopping experience and more about discovery.

It’s a move that challenges the traditional cadence of the fashion calendar, which fits with Demna’s subversive MO. And perhaps it’s a glimpse into how fashion might be consumed moving forward…

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Yu Mei rolls out renewed favourites with Leather ’26

Yu Mei continues to fulfil all our accessory needs with Leather ’26, a slow, considered rollout of foundational pieces delivered in monthly Editions.

Anchored in the brand’s supple New Zealand deer leather, alongside suede and lambskin, the collection builds on a modern “carrying wardrobe.” Edition 02 sees the return of the ‘Claudia’ tote in Molasses, a deep chocolate-brown, while cult favourites like the ‘Teresa’ and ‘Brooke’ reappear in soft Sand Stone, an elegant pale-camel hue.

Shot in Sydney, the campaign leans into gesture and movement, offering an elegant study in everyday utility.

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Friends With Frank unveils its Autumn/Winter ’26 collection

Friends With Frank’s AW26 collection leans into what it does best: refining the essentials. Think softly structured shirting in versatile colourways, natural-fibre knitwear and denim, all layered with an ease that feels instinctive rather than styled.

This season, an elevated plaid and subtle injections of colour—the perfect poppy red and a deeply versatile chocolate brown, to name some—lend a fresh perspective, while on the accessories front, reworked signatures bring new depth.

It’s a wardrobe built on familiarity of tone and purpose, only sharper, more assured, and perfectly crafted for the upcoming season.

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MECCA MAX launches a multitasking beauty hero

If you, too, have been attempting the ‘Nina Park lip’ without success, MECCA MAX’s new Multiplayer Mode Shaping Stick is here to provide some assistance. Intuitive, tonal, and unfussy, it encourages experimentation across eyes, cheeks, lips, and jawline, with eight versatile shades to play around with.

Its creamy, blendable formula offers a sheer, matte colour with a softly diffused finish, while the rounded tip makes precision feel effortless—Yes, even for the less steady-handed!

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UNIQLO U fuses function and fashion with Future Layers

UNIQLO is a brand that has perfected the art of the collab, but its U collection is always a particular hit. For its latest Fall/Winter offering, designed by Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran in Paris, continues its cerebral approach to everyday dressing.

Drawing on the deep blues of the North Sea, this range is a study in calm, solitude and restraint. Titled “Future Layers,” it plays with contrast: merino wool against crisp nylon, soft lambswool alongside technical PUFFTECH. Silhouettes are functional yet polished, from water-repellent parkas to softly sculpted knits, all rendered in a palette of indigo, basil and plum—a perfect wardrobe addition for the season ahead.

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Trudon marks a new chapter with a fresh scent

Renowned fragrance brand Trudon has quietly entered a new chapter under Creative Director Hugo Ferroux, whose debut scent, Figuerie, looks to the past to shape something entirely contemporary.

Inspired by the Royal Figuerie of Louis XIV’s Versailles gardens, the fragrance explores fig in duality—bright and green at first, before deepening into something earthier and more shadowed. Notes of patchouli, moss and sandalwood lend a grounding warmth, evoking wintered trees and wooden crates. Available across candles, diffusers and room sprays, it offers a refined, atmospheric take on a familiar note.

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Antler expands on its premium Heritage collection

Luggage atelier Antler continues to refine its travel offering by introducing Forest Green, a rich evolution of its signature hue, across its Heritage Trunk and Cabin cases.

The new shade is rooted in luxury, lending depth to the brand’s clean and functional design ethos. Alongside it comes a new travel bag and a considered edit of tags and charms, designed to personalise the journey. It’s a subtle update, but it explores how even the most practical pieces can carry a sense of identity.

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Awards season may culminate with the Academy Awards, but fashion’s final act actually begins afterwards. Following the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood heavyweights make their way to the legendary Vanity Fair Oscars After Party, an after-hours gathering that has, over three decades, become as much a part of Oscar night as the ceremony itself.

With its famous guest list spanning actors, musicians, models, designers, athletes and industry power players, the VF party’s red carpet—transformed this year into a sleek silver setting—has long offered a second fashion moment to rival the Oscars. After all, once the awards are handed out, the mood tends to loosen, and the outfits follow suit.

This year’s ceremony saw Michael B. Jordan win Best Actor for Sinners, while One Battle After Another secured Best Picture and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson. Now, the evening continues with a fresh round of looks, as stars swap their awards-show ensembles for something a touch more daring.

2026 Vanity Fair Oscars After Party

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Awards season has reached its grand finale. Today, the 98th Academy Awards unfolded at the Dolby Theatre, where Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered to celebrate the year’s most celebrated films. Hosted once again by Conan O’Brien, the ceremony promises the usual mix of cinematic triumph, emotional speeches—and, of course, exceptional fashion.

But before the academy reveals its choices, there’s the Oscars red carpet, which has long served as one of fashion’s most closely watched stages. And with this year’s guest list reading like a who’s who of modern Hollywood—nominees Teyana Taylor, Emma Stone, Jessie Buckley, Nicole Kidman, to name a few—you can bet there was plenty of style to rival the performances.

From dramatic silhouettes to impeccable tailoring, here are the best fashion moments from the 2026 Academy Awards red carpet.

The best looks from the 2026 Oscars red carpet

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On the final day of Paris Fashion Week, guests arriving at the Palais d’Iéna stepped into something unexpected. For Fall/Winter 2026, Miu Miu had transformed the stately modernist interior into a mossy woodland clearing, complete with a dirt floor and the faint scent of fresh earth. It was an evocative stage for Miuccia Prada’s latest collection, which looked at the body in its larger context, exploring how small it may be in the world, yet how powerfully it inhabits it.

If recent Miu Miu seasons have thrived on playful provocation, this one felt quieter, more introspective. Clothes hugged close, rendered in washed cotton poplin, double cashmere and linen that appeared gently worn, as though already part of the wearer’s life. There was a softness to the fabrics that suggested intimacy, garments designed to be felt as much as seen.

Silhouettes played cleverly with proportion, as Prada’s work often does. Some jackets shrank around the shoulders, recalling ’90s minimalism, while coats ballooned outward in textured layers. Elsewhere, delicate dresses with 1920s-style drop waists shimmered with crystal sprays and scalloped appliqués. Even the sweetest details—bows placed like fragments of lingerie, embroidered tulle, plush shearling linings—seemed to underline Prada’s fascination with clothing that sits closest to the body.

Casting took on its own narrative. Actors including Gillian Anderson, Chloë Sevigny and Diana Silvers walked alongside runway stalwarts such as the iconic Kristen McMenamy and legendary Australian model Gemma Ward, establishing a cast that stayed true to Miu Miu’s irreverent spirit.

A focus on texture grounded some of the romance. Chunky mittens, fluffy trapper hats, rumpled leather coats, shearling trims, high-sheen neutral tones, and the brand’s cultish bubble-soled boots added a practical counterpoint to the collection’s tenderness.

After the show, Prada spoke simply: the body may be small, but it is enough. During a time that prioritises speed and keeping up, Fall/Winter 2026 celebrates the value of individuality and doing things a little differently.

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In the courtyard of the Cour Carrée, Louis Vuitton staged a landscape that felt both of this earth and something else entirely. Conceived by production designer Jeremy Hindle, the set transformed the historic square of the Musée du Louvre into a futuristic pastoral, part forest clearing, part sci-fi tableau, setting the scene for Nicolas Ghesquière’s Fall/Winter 2026 meditation on fashion and the natural world.

Ghesquière has long been a designer who looks forward by looking sideways, and here he turned his attention to nature, probing it not just for its beauty, but appreciating it as a design system in its own right. Mountains, plains and forests became metaphors for shape and structure, with silhouettes that appeared moulded by wind, rain and sun. The result was clothing that felt instinctive yet boldly futuristic, as though unearthed rather than constructed.

There was an intriguing sense of collage throughout, too. Animal-inspired motifs appeared on canvas and denim, while leather florals bloomed across coats and dresses, serving as sculptural appliqués. Some pieces evoked traditional dress, the kind shaped over generations by climate and labour, though translated through Vuitton’s crafted lens.

As we’ve come to expect from the Maison, craft and technology, past and future, walked hand in hand this season, with organic matter anchoring the vision. Buttons resembled polished stones; heels curved like antlers; surfaces were grooved and grained to mimic wood, but moved with surprising softness.

Accessories, naturally, bolstered the collection. The House’s heritage as a trunk maker came through in bags designed for movement and curiosity. A highlight was the return of the Louis Vuitton Noé bag, revived in its original proportions and colourway from 1932, cementing exploration as a part of Louis Vuitton’s DNA.

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At Grand Palais, the opening pulse of ‘Just Dance’ by Lady Gaga signalled that something playful was afoot at Chanel. For his Fall/Winter 2026 show, artistic director Matthieu Blazy drew on a line from Gabrielle Chanel: fashion as both caterpillar and butterfly. The metaphor proved apt for a collection that evolved, quite literally, from grounded practicality to nocturnal flourish.

Blazy began with the House’s most reliable instrument: the Chanel suit. But here it was loosened, stretched, and reimagined in a language that felt both archival and futuristic. Ribbed knits replaced rigid tailoring; tweeds were threaded with lurex and even silicone; bouclé work shirts and masculine blousons suggested a wardrobe that could drift easily between settings and time. These silhouettes traced a loose path through the Maison’s history, with echoes of the twenties and thirties, then the mid-century decades, before circling back to the present.

Gradually, the collection gathered lift. Silk jerseys and featherlight beaded knits introduced movement, while the waistline dipped lower, creating elongated torsos and languid proportions. Long sweater vests paired with pleated skirts hinted at the ease Blazy seems keen to bring to the Chanel vocabulary. No more was this visible in the colour palette, though. While Coco’s black-and-white foundations will always be ever-present on the runway, Blazy’s joyous use of colour across his now three collections is so well considered and balanced that even the most purist Chanel customer could embrace its spectrum.

Casting underscored this evolving mood. Viral newcomer Bhavita Mandava appeared alongside the irrepressible Alex Consani, while the welcome presence of veteran models reappeared in a buck against the industry’s tireless obsession with the new! new! new!

By nightfall (at least sartorially), the butterfly had well indeed emerged. Streamlined coats, sinuous dresses and iridescent embellishments glimmered under the lights, while enamel jewellery, pastel second-skin boots and playful minaudières added a surreal, almost Impressionist sheen.

After a history-making SS26 debut, it’s clear that in Blazy’s hands, Chanel remains what it has always been: sensible and fantastical at once. Clothes to live through the day in, and come alive in the night, transforming as we do.

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At Palazzo Barberini, grandeur has transformed over the centuries. For Fall/Winter 2025, Valentino leaned into that instability, staging a collection that treated fashion as a live negotiation between order and impulse.

The Baroque palazzo, with its measured façade and aged interiors, set the tone. It is a building shaped as much by friction as by form, where the disciplined clarity of artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini meets the disorienting curves of architect Francesco Borromini, inspiring artistic director Alesandro Michele, per his show notes. That same push and pull played out on the runway, where garments oscillated between structure and release, control and abandon.

Tailoring arrived with a certain authority through clean lines, precise proportions, and an architectural sense of hierarchy. Dresses dissolved at the edges, volumes shifted unexpectedly, and surfaces seemed to catch movement mid-flight, as if resisting definition. Transparency and opacity were in constant dialogue, while embellishment flickered between restraint and excess.

These proffered a sense that the clothes were not simply worn but part of an ongoing negotiation. Silhouettes guided the body, then subtly destabilised it—curves interrupting straight lines, drapes softening rigidity, and gestures of lightness offsetting weight. Like the storied frescoed ceilings above, these pieces suggested that form is always on the brink of transformation.

And yet, for all its intellectual undercurrent, the collection never felt heavy-handed or compromised on aesthetic indulgence—it is Alesandro Michele, after all. Instead, it carried a lightness of spirit, as well as a willingness to let contradiction exist without over-explanation. In this season, Valentino proposed fashion not as a fixed statement, but as a field of interferences: a place where discipline and desire meet, collide, and, crucially, coexist.

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On Tuesday afternoon, the Jardin des Tuileries became, once again, a theatre for society. Commissioned in the 16th century by Catherine de’ Medici and later reshaped under Louis XIV, the garden has long been a place to see and be seen, historically enforcing a strict dress code that delineated social ranking. While today it is enjoyed in a far more liberal fashion, for his first Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collection at Dior, Jonathan Anderson leaned into that history, treating the park’s purpose as inspiration.

The Grande Allée, that axial promenade that runs through the lush greenery, set the scene. Anderson’s notes invoked Charles Baudelaire and his flâneur, conjuring a Paris of charged glances and strictly coded dress. The collection distilled those references into two recurring silhouettes: one tracing the House’s floral femininity, the other nodding to tailored masculinity. Peplumed Bar jackets flared over abbreviated skirts, while oversized checked suiting and satin-lapel dinner jackets slouched with studied nonchalance.

Many looks concealed their wit at the back—a bustle here, an unexpected swell of volume there— details designed for the passing observer. Water lilies, which were teased as a theme before the show took place, surfaced as brooches and prints, a gentle reminder of Dior’s enduring love of flowers refracted through Anderson’s cerebral lens.

If the Tuileries has always functioned as a stage, Anderson suggested that clothing remains its most eloquent script: a means of self-invention, played out in public. Only with these clothes, we’re encouraged to look a little longer.

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There are few debuts more scrutinised than a first full Fall/Winter ready-to-wear outing at Dior, and shortly, all eyes will turn to the Jardin des Tuileries as Jonathan Anderson presents his vision live in the House’s perennial show space.

Having already unveiled his inaugural ready-to-wear and Haute Couture collections, this season feels more like the moment of synthesis. While a hit debut Spring/Summer 2026 eases some of the pressure, there are still stakes for his second, mostly regarding where the designer’s cerebral romanticism, craft-led instincts, and penchant for subversion will coalesce within the codes of such a storied brand.

A teaser clip posted to Instagram offers a glimpse of the mood, with lily pads glimpsed beneath the water, their veined membranes lit by sunlight from above. Perhaps a suggestion of something stirring below the surface? All will be revealed.

Expect, too, a formidable front row. Ambassadors, including Mia Goth, Taylor Russell, Greta Lee, Josh O’Connor, LaKeith Stanfield and Anya Taylor-Joy, are likely to descend, ensuring a runway display of its own outside the demountable setting.

Watch the show live from Paris on March 3 at 2:30 pm (March 4 at 12:30 am AEST) as Anderson defines the next chapter.

(Feature image: Photography © Ben Pexton. Ceramics © Kazunori Hamana)

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When Gucci announced that Demna would take the creative helm, fresh from his era-defining tenure at Balenciaga, the industry braced for impact. Fall/Winter 2026 now marks the moment that anticipation truly crystallised, with Demna’s first physical runway for the Italian fashion house.

Set within a monumental, museum-like space lined with marble statuary, the show proposed Gucci as both brand and cultural artefact. This shared language, spoken across archetypes, identities and dress codes, has been the throughline of his previous debuts (SS26 and Pre-Fall), and for this season, the sense of Tom Ford-era Gucci and its bougie club kid fandom made for rich inspiration. From ultra-tight tops and bumbags to svelte mini dresses and voluminous faux furs, Y2K nightlife was revived with a modern elegance.

It opened with a palate cleanser: an ultimate seamless white turtleneck minidress in hosiery fabric that channelled the pure femme-fatale assurance of Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. From there, body-clinging silhouettes engineered with invisible heat-sealed edges and curved hems, cut close in a way that felt like a fusion of both Gucci and Demna’s greatest hits. Jackets were cropped and snug, paired with pencil skirts and ab-baring trousers.

Demna’s perennial fascination with hybrid garments surfaced in tracksuit dresses, leggings fused to trousers, and jackets merged with tops into ultra-fitted one-pieces. Feathered bombers framed the face, while butter-soft leathers relaxed bikers and circular stoles. Eveningwear then tipped into decadence with waist-high slits and a backless dress revealing a diamond-studded white-gold GG thong.

Accessories were pragmatic but grounded in a point of view. The Bamboo 1947 streamlined, minaudières stretched for modern life, and a new Manhattan sneaker blending basketball minimalism with moccasin ease stepped up.

And then of course, the runway closed with a bang: Kate Moss, the ultimate 2000s club queen in a slinky black sequined gown, reminiscent of Demna’s couture work. But beyond nostalgia and celebrity cameos, the inaugural runway cemented a new epoch for Gucci, where the past is celebrated with a fresh point of view.

“This collection, and my overall vision for Gucci, is built around a sense of pragmatism,” he wrote in his shownotes. “Products that can be enjoyed by a variety of people, that enrich their lives and make them feel great, that can stand on their own, without the need for pseudo-intellectual justifications.”

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