London Fashion Week September 2026: How the Week Went, Show by Show

London Fashion Week's September 2026 edition ran from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 September: Marks & Spencer's first ever catwalk, Christopher Kane's first Mulberry collection, Simone Rocha at the Old Bailey, McQueen back on the official London schedule, and Burberry to close. The last slot on the schedule was Burberry's, at 7pm on Monday 21 September, which the LFW schedule, marked 'Schedule correct at the time of publication, 17.09.26', listed as catwalk and invite only with no venue printed. The venue turned out to be Chelsea College of Arts.

The week, day by day

• Thursday 17 September: Paul Costelloe opened the schedule at 10:00, at Banking Hall near Liverpool Street after 15 years at the Waldorf Hilton. The day's other headline slots were Barbour's presentation from 16:30 to 18:30, eBay's Endless Runway at 17:00, Harris Reed at 18:00 and H&M's 'H&M&YOU&I: A Fashion Story' at 20:00.
• Friday 18 September: Marks & Spencer's first catwalk show, at 12:00 at the Design Museum, with half the collection under £50 and all of it on sale from the show.
• Saturday 19 September: Richard Quinn, in the schedule's 18:00 slot. The Impression's Angela Baidoo wrote that he 'continues to fly the flag for British-born occasion wear that takes from a time of excess and ramps up the glamour'.
• Sunday 20 September: Simone Rocha at the Old Bailey at 10:00, Erdem at 12:00, a screening of Emilia Wickstead's SS27 show at 13:00, Mulberry by Christopher Kane at 15:00 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Roksanda at 17:00 and McQueen at 20:00 in the Undercroft of Lincoln's Inn Chapel.
• Monday 21 September: Burberry at 19:00 at Chelsea College of Arts, the last show on the schedule. Daniel Lee's summer 2027 collection, with Central Cee's runway debut.

Thursday and Friday: the high street sells from the runway

The genuine first came at midday on Friday 18 September. Marks & Spencer's first ever catwalk show, at the Design Museum, marked 100 years of M&S fashion with 41 womenswear and 16 menswear looks, designed by its in-house teams. Half the collection is priced under £50, and all of it went on sale from the show, online and in 10 flagship stores across the UK and Ireland. 'This is a collection built on our heritage but brought bang up to date,' said chief executive Stuart Machin. The Guardian counted 310 guests, including Ian Wright and Jamie Carragher, put the most expensive piece at £450 for a leather coat, and headlined its review 'Marks and Spencer's first LFW catwalk gamble pays off with compelling looks at affordable prices'.

eBay's Endless Runway returned for a third year at 5pm on Thursday 17 September, hosted by Raven Smith, on the theme 'Forever' and shoppable on eBay Live. Contributors including Adwoa Aboah, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sandy Powell, Charles Jeffrey and Giles Deacon picked pieces from their own wardrobes, eBay's Pre-Loved Styling Team styled the looks, and all proceeds from eBay Live sales during the show went to Central Saint Martins' Fashion Fund.

H&M, at London Fashion Week for a second year in a row, took the last of Thursday's headline slots with a show directed by Nick Knight and SHOWstudio at Kensington Olympia. About 700 guests attended, some of them members of the public who had applied through H&M's social channels. The Brazilian ballerina Ingrid Silva opened it with a performance choreographed to light the 40-metre runway, Alex Consani walked the first look, and Labrinth closed the show with a live performance. The first drop of H&M's Autumn 2026 womenswear and its H&M Atelier menswear went on sale online from 9pm CET.

Sunday: Rocha, Erdem, Mulberry, McQueen

Simone Rocha opened Sunday 20 September at the Old Bailey with a collection titled 'I Was Trying To Love You'. PA reports that it was prompted by the discovery of Caravaggio's 'The Taking of Christ', which had spent years in a Dublin drawing room, and that the show brought sheer dresses and exposed underwear into the Central Criminal Court in place of her usual layering. 'Sometimes I can be very layered and I can really put clothes on top of clothes, it's a very protective thing,' Rocha told PA. At midday Erdem took Barbette, the Texan-born aerialist who became a sensation in 1920s Paris and was photographed by Man Ray, as his starting point; Marie Claire Australia describes delicate lingerie, feathered flourishes and sparkling embellishment set against sharply tailored coats, tweed and structured menswear. Emilia Wickstead's 1pm slot was a screening of her SS27 show.

At 3pm Christopher Kane showed his first Mulberry collection in what Vogue's Lucy Maguire called 'the retro-futuristic central room in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre' in Westminster. Kane was appointed creative director of women's ready-to-wear in March, and his own label closed in 2023; TheIndustry.fashion calls this Mulberry's first runway show in six years. The Bayswater's flap notches became a crenellated detail on outerwear, tailoring and dresses; axe motifs, drawn from founder Roger Saul's Somerset origins, appeared on T-shirts, heels and a shoulder bag called 'The Chop'; the Postman's Lock went onto belts and footwear. The collection lands in stores and online in January 2027.

The reception was loud. Wallpaper*'s Jack Moss reported 'a roaring ovation at the end of the show' and quoted Kane: 'For me, heritage is a foundation, not a limitation.' Vogue reported that a whole section of the audience gave a standing ovation. The Business of Fashion's Tim Blanks headlined his review 'Christopher Kane Opens New Era at Mulberry' and called the collection 'an audacious reformulation of the British heritage brand's iconography'. The Guardian's Jess Cartner-Morley wrote that 'two beloved British names made a swaggering joint comeback at London fashion week', reported the collection's title as 'Town, city, country', and noted that Mulberry's sales are up 23% this year; Kane was quoted saying the palette came from 'the bleak, post-industrial Scotland where I grew up – grey concrete, and coalminer orange', and that he wants 'Mulberry to be about a Britishness that's not London-centric'.

McQueen closed the day at 8pm in the Undercroft of Lincoln's Inn Chapel in Holborn: Seán McGirr's Spring/Summer 2027 collection, womenswear and menswear together, and his first show in London as the house's creative director. TheIndustry.fashion reports three bespoke suits made with Huntsman of Savile Row and a recycled-silver body harness by Shaun Leane; PA put Emilia Clarke, Florence Welch, Salma Hayek, Emma Corrin, Lola Tung and Alexa Chung in the front row. Our full report on the show is on the desk.

BFC chief executive Laura Weir: 'This season marks an exciting moment for London Fashion Week, with the return of leading British brands alongside an exceptional new generation of creative talent.'

LFW's schedule listed every headline slot as invite only and printed no venues, so the venues came out through the shows themselves: Rocha at the Old Bailey, Mulberry at the QEII Centre, McQueen in the Undercroft of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, and Burberry, last of all, at Chelsea College of Arts. What the city got in place of a front-row seat was the week around the shows: eBay's runway shoppable on eBay Live, H&M's first drop online the same night, and M&S's collection on sale from the show.

Monday: Burberry closes it

Daniel Lee closed the week on the evening of Monday 21 September in a bright white cube at Chelsea College of Arts, with guests on wooden seats printed with the Burberry check. Reuters reported skirt suits in windowpane check embroidered with mimosa and lavender, men's checked short suits with floral motifs, and sheer trench coats in pastel blue and aubergine over striped dresses, with Jason Statham, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Skepta, Kano and Sadiq Khan in the audience and the rapper Central Cee making his runway debut in low-slung jeans and a hooded jacket. The prints drew on the textile artist Celia Birtwell, whose 1960s and 70s work turned the house check into stripes and gingham, Hypebae reported; Lee called the season the house's most 'soulful' and wrote in his notes of 'an intentional imperfection: the idea of owning a piece, living in it'.