Fashion News
The AWH Magazine guide to
Fashion News
Fashion News is the reporting feed at AWH Magazine, covering appointments, departures, show announcements, collaborations and label closures. Items are brief, dated and followed by a sentence on consequence. Written for readers keeping track of who is where and what it means for the next season.
Industry news filed as it lands: creative director hires, show dates, collaboration announcements and closures, each with a line on what it signals.
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Sarah Burton Appointed at Givenchy, the House Announces
The designer who spent 26 years at Alexander McQueen — 13 of them as creative director — takes the creative direction of Givenchy, per the house's announcement in December 2024.
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The Met Opens New Galleries With Costume Art Exhibition
Costume Art, opening May 10, 2026, is the first show in the Costume Institute's new Condé M. Nast Galleries, staging nearly 400 garments and artworks together to argue for fashion's place within art history.
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The Twenty-Five Passages: What the Law Requires Before a Dress May Be Called Haute Couture
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The Dinner That Pays the Curators: How the Met Gala Underwrites Fashion's Place Inside the Museum
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Giorgio Armani 1934 To 2025: The House Without Its Founder
The designer died on September 4, 2025 with a succession structure already in his will, leaving the largest founder-led house in Italian fashion to test whether his discipline survives its author.
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Julian Klausner At Dries Van Noten: The Second Act, Reviewed
The first designer to follow Dries Van Noten himself did not reset the house — he deepened it, and the women's runway of March 2025 made the case.
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Haider Ackermann At Tom Ford: The First Runway, Measured
Named in September 2024 and shown in March 2025, Ackermann's Tom Ford paired the house's seduction codes with a poet's tailoring — the first runway made the pairing legible.
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Jonathan Anderson At Dior: One Designer, Every Collection
LVMH's June 2025 decision to give a single creative director all of Dior reversed a twenty-year fragmentation habit and set the scale test for the whole industry.
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Louise Trotter's Bottega Veneta: First Chapters In Intrecciato
Appointed in December 2024 and debuted in September 2025, Trotter built her Bottega on the one asset no predecessor can be blamed for neglecting: the weave itself.