All the must see highlights from Milan Fashion Week AW26

New York and London may have wrapped, but fashion month is far from over. We’re now headed to Milan, where Autumn/Winter 2026 collections from Jil Sander, Fendi, Prada and Hugo Boss have already set pulses racing. And, we have more to come with Bottega Veneta and Ferragamo, as well as major debuts at Gucci and Miu Miu to look forward to. Running from February 24 to March 2nd, the editors, buyers, and celebrities are flocking to one of fashion’s greatest capitals to see what we’ll be wearing this winter.

One of the biggest debuts of the season will be Maria Grazia Chiuri for Fendi. After nine years as creative director of women’s collections at Dior, Chiuri has passed the baton to Jonathan Anderson and has now returned to where it all began in 1989. Amid the creative director reshuffle of the last three years, the number of women leading the great houses has dwindled — making Chiuri’s appointment all the more significant. She is not alone in making a landmark entrance this season: Meryll Rogge will also debut as head of Marni, adding another female voice to a conversation sorely in need of them.

Below, find all the talking points, major moments and key trends from Milan Fashion Week.

Jil Sander

Simone Bellotti’s second season at Jil Sander was a reminder of why the house matters: butter-soft leather, clean tailoring, smart dresses and coats in elegant neutrals, all executed with the kind of rigorous restraint that makes you want to buy everything and wear it for a decade. Treats included East-West bags in pops of colour and leopard-print midi skirts, which popped on the runway, proving that the Jil Sander take on minimalism is never boring and always leaves us wanting more.

Fendi

For Chiuri, Fendi is less a new chapter than a homecoming. She joined the house in 1989 at just 25 years old and spent a formative decade there, contributing to one of fashion’s most enduring accessories stories: the Baguette bag, that slim, crook-of-the-arm icon that has never waned in popularity. She departed for Valentino in 1999, spending seventeen years there — many of them alongside Pierpaolo Piccioli — before her history-making move to Dior in 2016. Now, she returns with the authority of experience and what is clearly a deep personal investment. “I feel the responsibility to do a good job here so that [all the Fendis] can recognise themselves in the brand today,” she told WWD. “I want to pay tribute to them and for me this is an honour, and it has a sentimental value.”

That sentiment threaded visibly through the collection, which centred on what Chiuri described as a “shared wardrobe” — a co-ed approach to dressing built on the conviction that great pieces transcend gender. “The idea was to work on the collection with the same team for men and women because the idea is that we do a coat, we do a jacket, we do pants. We change the size, but it’s the same — a transversal wardrobe.… My idea is to make the jacket that everyone desires.”

If the collection was short on theatrical spectacle, it was long on considered, wearable desire. There was a military rigour to some of the outerwear, a gentle bohemian ease to the slip dresses, and a certain louche nonchalance in the knitted pieces and belted vests that felt simultaneously that carried a touch of nostalgia — you could imagine Sienna Miller wearing many of these pieces in the 2010s.

The front row was suitably stellar: Uma Thurman, Dakota Fanning, Shailene Woodley, Iris Law and Monica Bellucci lent the proceedings a pleasing sweep of generations, a fitting audience for a designer whose whole proposition is, after all, clothes that belong to everyone.

Prada

Miuccia and Raf gave their models a workout on the AW/26 runway. They sent just fourteen models down catwalk — but each made four passes, shedding a layer each time to show how the same pieces can shift and transform over a single day. Bella Hadid’s return (she has recently reserved appearances for Saint Laurent) to the catwalk added extra noise, but the real talking point was the concept: a rigorous argument for the capsule wardrobe.

Missoni

Missoni might be closely associated with summer, but it has its roots in knitwear, and the AW26 collection put this expertise on show, making a convincing case for cool-weather dressing. Chunky knits, oversized coats, and warm layers arrived in the house’s signature patterned fabrics, in warm, toasted and mustard tones for the winter months. There was still room for play with a set of tailored trousers shot through with lurex thread and sequins, a signature Missoni material woven into 1980s officewear. These were immediately dubbed “party pants” and toed the line between pragmatism and fun. Add them to the list.

Max Mara

Max Mara leaned into real-winter dressing this season: looser, more enveloping silhouettes in weighty, tactile fabrics, flat over-the-knee suede boots, practical belt bags and sweeping coats that felt built for the cold, with even eveningwear featuring woolly epaulettes. The message was clear — polished doesn’t have to mean precious, and luxury is most convincing when it’s also useful. Knee-high boots seem to be back; we already saw them at Ralph Lauren in New York, and the faintly equestrian style was present at Max Mara and BOSS.

Boss

Struggling to get excited for “Q2”? BOSS creative director Marco Falcioni might at least get you excited for your Autumn/Winter office wardrobe. On the catwalk, BOSS put the sex back into dressing in the office in a way that won’t violate any HR policies. Sharp suiting and impeccably tailored separates arrived in rich colours and textures, with embellishments such as silk-fringed scarves and paisley linings sprinkled liberally to add character. It was part Fatal Attraction, all winter dressing inspiration, and has us genuinely excited for our winter office wardrobes.