July 23, 2026 |
TEN CRAVES IS OUR ONLINE SERIES THAT ROUNDS UP ALL THE BEST PRODUCT LAUNCHES AND MUST-KNOW FASHION HAPPENINGS WEEK IN, WEEK OUT.
SINÉAD O’DWYER TAKES OVER THE V&A WITH FASHION IN MOTION
V&A’s Fashion in Motion is back this July 24, and Sinéad O’Dwyer is taking the runway – four times in one day, no less. The Irish designer – and Royal College of Art graduate – has spent years dressing the bodies that fashion often overlooks, wielding life-casting, silicone moulding and experimental pattern cutting to cover everything from a UK 4 to a 30. Her show, fittingly titled Notice Me, brings 15 sculptural garments with a point to prove about who fashion is actually for. All of it unfolds in the Raphael Gallery, the same catwalk that’s hosted Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier. Get your tickets here, you’ll want to be in the room. Talia Panayi
TASAKI AND NICCOLÒ PASQUALETTI RESCULPT THE PEARL
Tasaki has handed its in-house pearls – farmed and finished entirely under its own roof – to Niccolò Pasqualetti, the Italian designer and 2024 LVMH Prize finalist known for tailoring that marries menswear with womenswear codes. The result traces the pearl’s journey through the sea across three chapters. ‘Fluid’ sets precise diamonds against freely placed pearls and rutilated quartz; ‘Ambivalent’ places hard oyster shell against soft nacre in curving necklaces and bracelets; and ‘Androgynous’ pulls rigid metal into shapes that appear softened by the pearls’ weight. All fluid lines and gender-free ease, worn as sculpture. Pearls, but not as you know them. Shop here. TP
ECCO.KOLLEKTIVE RETURNS FOR AW26 WITH THREE NEW CAPSULES
Ecco’s most experimental project is back, and it’s brought friends. For AW26, Ecco.Kollektive – the Danish brand’s revolving collaborative concept – opens its leather expertise, archive and technical innovations to three designers who’ve been given free rein and zero commercial constraints. This season’s class: Natacha Ramsay-Levi, Craig Green and Yosuke Aizawa of White Mountaineering.
Ramsay-Levi, Ecco’s first creative partner, reworks the project’s original codes, bringing icons like the OG Joke shoe back with exaggerated proportions and her signature toughness. Green – who debuted his Ecco footwear on the SS25 runway – evolves core silhouettes through subtle shifts in structure and finish, all utility and craft. Aizawa closes with a technical, outdoor-minded capsule built on engineered leathers and Ecco’s performance platforms. Shop here. TP
LOEWE SUITS UP SPAIN’S WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS
Call it the best-dressed victory of the summer. As Spain lifted the 2026 World Cup – edging Argentina 1-0 for a second title, their first since 2010 – Loewe was there in the wings having dressed La Roja across the tournament in a full travel wardrobe by creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. Spanning tailoring, casual wear, shoes and leather goods, it marked the debut of a four-year partnership with Spain’s men’s and women’s national teams. To honour the run, the house enlisted artist Hannah Coen, whose blurred, painterly compositions catch the ball mid-flight and the boot mid-strike. It’s fitting for a Madrid house that’s turning 180 this year, one that has always spoken fluent Spanish – now on the pitch. TP
MUGLER UNVEILS ITS FIRST HANDBAG UNDER MIGUEL CASTRO FREITAS
Since taking the reins, Miguel Castro Freitas has been methodically returning Mugler to its couture roots, and now he arrives at the accessory every luxury house depends upon: the handbag. The Portuguese designer unveils his first bag for the maison in a black-and-white campaign shot by Chris Lensz, picturing a female bodybuilder whose chiselled physique rewrites notions of femininity whilst mirroring the bag’s sculpted architecture. It reads as pure Mugler, a house transfixed by force and form, from Manfred Thierry Mugler’s armoured creations to Freitas’, a former dancer who treats the body and what it wears as choreography. One bag, a whole new era. TP
LOUIS VUITTON steps back into ceramics
Louis Vuitton gives its watchmaking codes a fresh, ceramic spin with its latest timepiece, the Monterey Ceramic, unveiled as part of Pharrell Williams’ SS27 menswear show. There, the timepiece was styled hanging from a leather watch fob secured with a carabiner clip at the waist, blurring the line between wristwatch and fashion accessory. Drawing from the maison’s LV II models, the new design reimagines a familiar silhouette through a distinctly modern lens.
Crafted in a 37mm case of scratch-resistant black or green ceramic, both colourways will join Louis Vuitton’s permanent collection. Powered by the LFTMA01.02 automatic movement and finished with matte-lacquered dials, hands and minute tracks, the watch balances technical precision with refined craftsmanship. While paying tribute to the house’s earliest wristwatch design, the 1988 LV I, the Monterey Ceramic brings a playful edge to something enduringly classic. Ni Li
Top image: photography by Chris Lensz, courtesy of Mugler.
