Fashion & Home News, October 8

Good morning. Fashion week has left Paris, but the ideas are only just landing, and at home the collaboration calendar is doing the heavy lifting. Here is your five minute briefing on what is happening in fashion and home decor, curated with care.

Fashion

The season’s parting word is lightness. After a week of debuts and sophomore collections, designers shook off the weight of heritage: Issey Miyake sent out ultrafine ripstop coats that ballooned like parachutes, Jonathan Anderson built Dior outfits so light they could fit in a shoebox, and Matthieu Blazy showed sheer organza sets and Swan Lake tutus at Chanel. Optic white sets ran from Loewe to Hermes. After a summer of heatwaves, weightlessness became luxury’s shared language.

Rick Owens builds in Stone. At the Palais de Tokyo, Owens staged his SS27 collection on a sloping runway over the reflecting pool, in a monochromatic stone palette. Industrial nylon webbing, the kind that secures shipping crates, was woven into rigid double duchesse satin column gowns; sulphur dyed Japanese denim was bleached into mottled gradients; tensegrity constructions traded latex for frothy tulle. Brutalism and softness, in the same sentence.

Pakistani craft takes the Paris runway. Zainab Chottani presented Bleu Heritage at the Hotel de Maisons, translating Hala pottery’s floral and geometric motifs into resham threadwork, zardozi, kora and dabka, finished with beads, sequins and crystal. Rather than reproducing the craft literally, the collection interprets its visual language through embroidery and texture. Heritage as a contemporary luxury vocabulary.

SSENSE opens its Salon des Refusés to everyone. During fashion week, SSENSE ran a one day Paris pop up with seven designers: Kanika Agarwal, Laura Andraschko, Merrma, Petra Fagerström, Rescha, Seconda and Stephen Jones. Doors open noon to six, pieces to view, try on and buy on site, then music into the evening. A nod to the 1863 Salon des Refusés, and proof that fashion week is better with the doors open.

Blazy’s Chanel is winning over the accountants too. Beyond the sheer organza and pearl embroidered corsets, Blazy is broadening the idea of the Chanel woman: Bhavitha Mandava, the house’s first Indian ambassador, wore look 10, and 22 year old Nigerian Rachael Ojuromi made her debut after her viral Lagos reinterpretation caught his eye. Chanel reportedly posted 16 percent comparable sales growth in the first half of 2026, with new bag models in high demand. Joy, it turns out, is a business strategy.

Karen Millen and Harper’s Bazaar make it a four season affair. The 30 piece Beyond the Season capsule, curated by the Bazaar UK fashion team under a four season licensing deal, reimagines Karen Millen hero pieces, the trench, the blazer, the occasion dress, the white shirt, with modern proportions and luxurious fabrics. Seven day investment dressing, designed to be styled many ways and worn for years. The anti trend capsule.

Elie Saab is coming to H&M. More than 50 pieces land in select stores and online on October 22, with prices starting at £29.99. Red carpet glamour at high street prices, timed for the start of holiday dressing season. The collaboration calendar keeps delivering.

Home Decor

Bob Mackie, from the stage to the sofa. Dainty Home has signed a licensing deal with the Bob Mackie brand to turn archival designs into luxury home textiles: Bob Mackie Home for department stores and elevated retail, Bob Mackie Studio for value channels, with first products expected for Spring Summer 2027. Fashion intellectual property keeps moving into the home, and Mackie’s archive is pure theatrical glamour.

The viral bouclé is back at Costco. After a sold out 2024 debut that generated viral attention, COCOCOZY’s 3 piece bouclé comforter set returns to Costco stores and Costco.com this fall, in Queen and King, in Ivory and Charcoal Grey. Designer texture at warehouse prices: the set that proved cozy bedding could go viral.

Nine designer collabs debut at High Point Market. Business of Home rounds up the first time partnerships launching at the fall market: Claudia Afshar’s 37 piece collection for Baker inspired by Spain’s coast, Molly Kidd’s Everhem capsule, a wardrobe for windows in heirloom lace and tailored pleats, and Amy Studebaker’s collection for Jessica Charles. This is where next year’s retail collections get their start.

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Inspired by the week’s biggest fashion stories: investment dressing (the trench, the blazer, the white shirt) and Paris’s lightness moment (the satin dress).