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The Week In Chic: All the Fashion News You Might Have Missed (Aug. 31 – Sep. 4)

BYMille Team

September 4, 2026

Missed out on the fashion chatter this week? We’ve got you covered. Every week, our inbox is flooded with hundreds of press releases, but we made it our mission to sift through all the noise so you don’t have to. Here’s your quick recap of all the key fashion news from Aug. 31 to Sep. 4 2026, served up in bite-sized pieces so you can catch up fast…

John Galliano’s Met Exhibition Has Been Canceled

The Met has canceled its planned Spring 2026 John Galliano exhibition following widespread backlash over the designer’s racist and antisemitic remarks from 2011. “John Galliano: Horizons,” announced in July by the Costume Institute, was set to examine the designer’s decades-long career, but less than a month later, the museum confirmed it would no longer go ahead. In a joint statement with Galliano, Anna Wintour, and Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton, The Met said the decision came after “thoughtful discussions,” with Galliano adding that he remained “fully accountable” for the pain caused by his past words, particularly to Jewish and Asian communities. The controversy dates back to 2011, when footage emerged of Galliano making racist and antisemitic remarks at a Paris café, resulting in his dismissal from Dior, his removal from his namesake label, and a €6,000 fine. He eventually returned to fashion as creative director of Maison Margiela in 2014, a position he later left, and most recently signed a collaboration deal with Zara in 2026. Bolton acknowledged the “pain and concern” surrounding the proposed exhibition and supported its cancellation, while Wintour called Galliano’s decision to step away from the show “very courageous.” The Met has yet to announce what will replace the exhibition on its Spring 2026 calendar.

Molly-Mae’s Matcha-Inspired adidas Sambas Are Coming to Dubai

Dubai’s matcha obsession has officially made its way from the coffee shop to the sneaker shelf. Molly-Mae’s collaboration with adidas Originals is landing in the UAE this weekend, bringing two appropriately caffeinated takes on some of the brand’s most recognizable sneakers to JD Sports at Dubai Mall: the green Matcha Samba and cream-and-brown Latte Superstar II. It is a collaboration that feels particularly engineered for Dubai, where your choice of matcha order has somehow become as much of a personal statement as your shoes, sunglasses, or Pilates set. Created with Molly-Mae, who worked with the adidas product team on the creative direction, the Matcha Samba comes with a green upper, off-white Three Stripes, gum sole, and double laces in cream and soft pink, while the Latte Superstar II swaps green for a cream upper with brown detailing and latte-colored laces. To celebrate the UAE launch, adidas Originals and JD Sports are taking the coffee-shop concept even further with a “Matcha or Latte?” activation at Dubai Mall from Sept. 4 to 6. Anyone who purchases a pair will also receive a coffee cup customization kit complete with crystals and charms, because apparently even our takeaway cups need accessories now. Between the coffee-coded colorways, personalization, and one of the internet’s most recognizable influencers, the drop is essentially an algorithm-friendly starter pack made physical, and Dubai might be one of the few places where that makes complete sense.

Bottega Veneta Expands Fragrance Collection

Bottega Veneta is expanding its fragrance offering with Alta, a new collection of ten perfumes inspired by Italy, though probably not the version you’re picturing. While the house’s first fragrance collection looked largely to its Venetian heritage, Alta casts a wider net, pairing Italian ingredients and references with notes from around the world. There’s Italian basil with vetiver from Madagascar in Always Now, blood orange with North African neroli in Montebello, and Italian white fig with American cedarwood in Balliamo. The most interesting of the bunch might be Ricordami, which takes inspiration from stracciatella ice cream, turning its milky vanilla and chocolate notes into a fragrance grounded by oakwood. Elsewhere, Night Sounds combines saffron with Vietnamese benzoin, while Crepuscolo brings together salty Fior di Sale and South Asian oud. It’s a clever way of approaching an Italian fragrance collection without falling back on the usual lemon groves and Mediterranean clichés, and also a reminder that the things we associate with a place rarely exist in isolation. Naturally, Bottega hasn’t forgotten about the bottle either. The house’s signature Intrecciato appears in the glass itself, alongside a wooden cap and gold-finished ring, with each bottle available in refillable 50ml and 100ml versions. Alta is Bottega Veneta’s biggest fragrance release to date and will be available at its boutiques and leading department stores worldwide.

Kaia Gerber, Liu Wen and More Front Givenchy’s Winter 2026 Campaign

Givenchy has unveiled its Winter 2026 women’s campaign, bringing Sarah Burton’s latest collection out of the runway setting and into the rocky landscapes of Croatia. Shot by Juergen Teller, the images star Kaia Gerber, Liu Wen, Nyaduola Gabriel, Eva Herzigova, and French writer and former lawyer Constance Debré, each photographed against steely granite with the stripped-back, slightly off-kilter quality Teller has made his signature. The casting spans different ages, careers, and expressions of femininity, but there is also a connection between the women beyond the campaign itself: each was involved in Burton’s fittings and contributed to the Fall/Winter 2026 show, making them part of the wider group that has formed around the designer since she arrived at Givenchy. The clothes are given plenty of room to speak, too, from sharply cut tailoring and a white shirt rendered in leather to draped evening dresses and more extravagant accessories.

Ib Kamara Is Leaving Off-White After Four Years

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Off-White is entering another period of change as Ib Kamara steps down after four years at the fashion house. The stylist and editor joined the brand’s creative leadership following the death of founder Virgil Abloh in November 2021, taking on the role of Art and Image Director in 2022 before eventually becoming Creative Director. It was an unusually difficult position to inherit. Abloh’s ideas, personality, and cultural influence were so closely tied to Off-White that figuring out what the label could look like without him was always going to be complicated, and Kamara spent much of his tenure trying to move it forward without pretending that history did not exist. His departure, announced on Aug. 31 and effective immediately, now leaves Off-White without a named creative director and raises that question all over again. Kamara said the two sides had mutually agreed to end their working relationship, describing his four years at the house as a major creative education and thanking the teams responsible for bringing its collections, shows, and ideas to life. “I leave with enormous pride in all we have made,” he said.

Skepta and fakemink Front Stone Island’s Latest Campaign

Stone Island is continuing its “Community as a Form of Research” series with a new cast spanning music, film, art, architecture, and cinema, led by Skepta, fakemink, and Adolescence star Stephen Graham. They are joined by Japanese musician 3House, architect and researcher Samir Bantal, art dealer Monika Sprüth, and filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke, each photographed in pieces from the Italian label and answering questions selected by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The ongoing campaign, which treats the people wearing Stone Island as an extension of the brand’s research into culture, has previously featured names including A.G. Cook, Feid, Charlie Hunnam, Chito Vera, and Breanna Stewart. This time around, fakemink appears in a glossy orange Slick Nylon Tela-TC hooded jacket, while Skepta wears a heavyweight Dense Oxford Nylon-TC jacket with PrimaLoft quilted lining. Graham turns to Stone Island’s monochromatic Ghost Collection in a rubberized lambskin coach jacket, while 3House wears a one-of-one David Light-TC jacket made from Japanese polyester and polyamide yarns, hand-dyed, heat-treated, and individually painted. Together, the latest lineup continues Stone Island’s long-running interest in bringing together people from seemingly unrelated corners of culture under the same compass badge.

Iris Law and Amelia Gray Take Over New York for DKNY

DKNY has tapped two of fashion’s most in-demand faces, Iris Law and Amelia Gray, for its Fall 2026 campaign, pairing the friends up for a series of twinning moments across New York City. Shot by Mikael Jansson with creative direction by Trey Laird, the campaign plays with the fact that Law and Gray have very different approaches to style: Gray brings a sharper, more minimal edge, while Law leans into a sexier downtown look. Rather than dressing them as complete opposites, DKNY frequently puts the pair in the exact same pieces and lets their personalities do the rest. In one image, they both wear a pinstriped minidress, while another sees them squeezed together in matching animal-print faux fur coats. The rest of the collection stays close to DKNY’s New York codes, with tailored vests and blazers, oversized sportswear, relaxed trousers, denim, vegan leather, and plenty of black, alongside bags including the Rivington and Bryar satchels. It also happens to be Gray’s second campaign for the brand, this time with her friend beside her.

The Week In Chic: All the Fashion News You Might Have Missed (Aug. 31 – Sep. 4)

John Galliano’s Met Exhibition Has Been Canceled

Molly-Mae’s Matcha-Inspired adidas Sambas Are Coming to Dubai

Bottega Veneta Expands Fragrance Collection

Kaia Gerber, Liu Wen and More Front Givenchy’s Winter 2026 Campaign

Ib Kamara Is Leaving Off-White After Four Years

Skepta and fakemink Front Stone Island’s Latest Campaign

Iris Law and Amelia Gray Take Over New York for DKNY

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