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The Week In Chic: All the Fashion News You Might Have Missed (Sep. 12 – 18)

BYMille Team

September 18, 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 Sep. 12 to Sep. 18 2026, served up in bite-sized pieces so you can catch up fast…

Dario Vitale Is Taking Over Emporio Armani

Emporio Armani has appointed Dario Vitale as its new creative director, effective immediately, while also handing him creative control of Giorgio Armani Accessories, making him the first external designer tapped to lead one of the Armani Group’s main fashion lines. The appointment signals a significant generational shift following founder Giorgio Armani’s death in September 2025. Vitale joins the house after a brief stint at Versace and, before that, 14 years at Miu Miu, where he worked under Miuccia Prada as design director of ready-to-wear and head of image, playing a role in the brand’s recent period of rapid growth. He now turns his attention to Emporio Armani, the younger, more metropolitan line Giorgio Armani launched in 1981. Silvana Armani and Leo Dell’Orco, the group’s designated creative heirs, will present their final co-ed Emporio Armani collection on Sept. 24, before Vitale makes his runway debut with the Fall/Winter 2027 collection.

CFDA CEO Apologizes After Tackling PETA Protester at NYFW

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New York Fashion Week got unexpectedly physical on Sunday when CFDA CEO Steven Kolb intervened during a PETA protest at COS’ Spring/Summer 2027 show, pulling one activist to the floor and covering her mouth as she shouted about the treatment of sheep in the wool industry. Five protesters had infiltrated the show, slipping onto the runway between models with signs reading “Sheep Beaten and Bloodied for Wool. Don’t Buy It,” as part of PETA’s ongoing campaign against COS parent company H&M Group. Footage of the confrontation quickly circulated online, showing Kolb restraining one protester and grabbing another who was filming before security stepped in. Hours later, he apologized, admitting, “I reacted inappropriately” and that he should have left the situation to security. PETA says it has filed a police report and is pursuing criminal charges, while one activist reportedly sought urgent care after saying she felt she was being suffocated. The incident comes amid the organization’s push for H&M Group to abandon wool following allegations of animal abuse within its supply chain, and, somewhat awkwardly, during the first NYFW season held under the CFDA’s newly implemented ban on real animal fur.

On Is Entering Football With Kylian Mbappé and Thierry Henry

Swiss sportswear brand On is officially entering football, and it has recruited some serious names for the occasion. Kylian Mbappé will sit at the heart of the expansion as a global ambassador, working directly with On’s product teams to develop and test its upcoming football footwear and apparel, while Arsenal legend and World Cup winner Thierry Henry has been named the brand’s Director of Football after working behind the scenes on the project since late 2025. Swiss international and FC Barcelona player Sydney Schertenleib is also joining the push, helping develop products for the women’s game. On plans to bring the Swiss engineering behind technologies such as CloudTec and its robotic LightSpray manufacturing process into football, with elite players involved throughout the development process. The move marks a major new chapter for the company, which launched as a running brand in 2010 before expanding into training, outdoor and tennis, while the campaign introducing its new football roster was shot by photographer Juergen Teller at On Labs in Zurich.

Legendary Costume Designer Bob Mackie Dies at 87

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Bob Mackie, the legendary costume designer who put Tina Turner in flames, Diana Ross in beads, and generations of performers in enough sequins to light an arena, has died at 87. His death was announced through his official social media accounts on Sept. 14, with no cause disclosed, bringing to a close a six-decade career that helped define the look of modern superstardom. Mackie created some of Turner’s most recognizable stage costumes, dressed the Supremes and later Ross throughout her solo career, and worked with everyone from Cher and Whitney Houston to RuPaul and Diahann Carroll. Alongside Ray Aghayan, he earned an Oscar nomination for the costumes in Lady Sings the Blues, while his 11 seasons designing for The Carol Burnett Show proved his clothes could land a joke as easily as they could steal a spotlight. Across his career, Mackie won nine Emmys, received three Academy Award nominations and took home a Tony for The Cher Show.

Miu Miu Taps Alice Diop for Its Art Basel Paris 2026 Commission

Miu Miu is teaming up with French filmmaker Alice Diop for Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation), its 2026 commission as an official partner of the Art Basel Paris Public Program. Conceived at Miuccia Prada’s invitation and staged at the Palais d’Iéna, where Miu Miu also holds its runway shows, the project marks Diop’s first venture into exhibition-making and builds on Fragments for Venus, her 2025 contribution to Miu Miu Women’s Tales. Bringing together film, photography, sculpture, poetry, dance, music and live performance, Diop explores the representation of Black women throughout art history and the artists whose work has offered her a form of repair and consolation. “I want my curation to center on acts of consolation conceived by Black women artists,” she explains. Visitors will move through four interconnected spaces featuring work by Zanele Muholi, Mary Lee Bendolph and Simone Leigh, alongside live readings of writers including Audre Lorde, Zadie Smith and Zora Neale Hurston, performances of Ivorian choreographer Nadia Beugré’s Prophétique, and music from Angel Bat Dawid and Sistazz of the Nitty-Gritty. The journey culminates with Leigh’s nearly five-meter-tall bronze Sentinel (Mami Wata), inspired by the West African water spirit. Geste de Consolation opens with a preview on Oct. 20 and runs from Oct. 21 through 25 at the Palais d’Iéna as part of Art Basel Paris’ free public program.

Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs Is Finally Coming to the Middle East

Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs is officially making its Middle East debut, bringing its full lineup of complexion and color products to beauty shelves across the Gulf. Leading the rollout are the brand’s two bestsellers, the Triclone Skin Tech Foundation, a weightless, buildable formula infused with more than 20 skincare ingredients and available in 51 shades across six undertone families, and the Triclone Skin Tech Concealer, which comes in 31 shades and is designed to blur, brighten, conceal and de-puff. The arrival marks a long-awaited regional expansion for Gaga’s skincare-meets-makeup brand, which will launch online at Sephora Middle East on Sept. 21 before hitting Sephora stores across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the wider Gulf beginning Oct. 1.

Alexandre Arnault Is Joining Nike’s Board

Nike has appointed LVMH executive Alexandre Arnault to its board of directors as the sportswear giant looks to steady itself after a difficult year that has seen its shares fall more than 40%. Arnault, who has served as deputy CEO of Moët Hennessy since February 2025 and previously held senior roles at Rimowa and Tiffany & Co., brings experience spanning luxury, brand building, digital strategy and product development. Nike CEO Elliott Hill said that background will be an asset as the company enters its next phase of growth, with Arnault joining a board that also includes Apple CEO Tim Cook. His arrival comes at a particularly tricky moment for Nike, which is heading toward a fifth consecutive year of share-price declines and will be removed from the S&P 100 on Sept. 21, ending an 18-year run on the blue-chip index.

Burberry’s Trench Coat Is Getting Its Own V&A Exhibition

Burberry is celebrating its 170th anniversary by putting one of fashion’s most recognizable coats under the museum spotlight. Opening Sept. 21 at London’s V&A South Kensington, The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon is a free exhibition tracing the trench from practical military outerwear to a fixture of British fashion. Drawing from the Burberry Archive and V&A collection, the show begins with Thomas Burberry’s 1879 invention of weather-resistant cotton gabardine before unpacking the craftsmanship behind the coat, including its hand-finished collar, House Check lining, storm flap and detachable throat latch. The final section brings things into the present with 19 runway looks from the past 25 years, including interpretations by Christopher Bailey and current Chief Creative Officer Daniel Lee, staged beneath a cloud-filled ceiling inspired by a John Constable painting of Hampstead Heath. Several archival pieces will be publicly displayed for the first time, including early 20th-century catalogues and a trench once worn by British designer Hardy Amies. The exhibition also serves as a preview of the V&A and Burberry’s much bigger collaboration to come, with The Burberry Gallery set to open at the museum in fall 2028.

Prada Just Turned Its Milan Home Into an Eight-Floor Universe

Prada is opening up more than a century of its history with Prada Galleria, an eight-floor destination spanning fashion, food, art and the archives inside Milan’s historic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. The project connects two sides of the 19th-century arcade’s central octagon through a new underground passage, bringing together several corners of the Prada universe under one roof. At its heart is Pradasphere, a permanent exhibition tracing the house from its founding in 1913 through its decades of experimentation across fashion, architecture, cinema, art, culture and sport. Visitors will also find expanded Prada Donna and Uomo boutiques, the historic Marchesi 1824 pastry shop and Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, alongside new spaces reserved for private shopping and hospitality. Overseen by Miuccia Prada, the project turns the house’s original Milanese home into something closer to a living Prada archive, where its clothes sit alongside the ideas, collaborations and cultural obsessions that have shaped the brand for more than 110 years.

Ariel Snatches Huda Kattan in Dubai Masterclass

Huda Kattan handed over the makeup brushes to celebrity makeup artist Ariel Tejada for a special Huda Beauty masterclass in Dubai celebrating the launch of the brand’s new Ultra Snatched Collection. Best known as Makeup By Ariel and for his work with stars including Kylie Jenner, Tejada used Kattan herself as his model, demonstrating his signature “snatched” technique with the new Easy Bake Duo and Easy Bake Pressed powders, layering them with Huda Beauty’s cult-favorite Easy Bake Loose Powder to brighten, blur and set the face. The event brought together influencers, beauty enthusiasts and makeup artists for a closer look at the collection, while also marking a collaboration between two beauty heavyweights who have long admired each other’s work. “Huda’s passion and love for makeup is something that I really share,” Tejada said, adding that he trusts Kattan’s understanding of what beauty consumers want.

IWC Celebrates 50 Years of the Ingenieur With Two Limited Editions

IWC Schaffhausen is marking 50 years of the Ingenieur SL with two limited-edition watches celebrating Gérald Genta’s cult 1976 design. Originally released as Reference 1832, the Ingenieur SL arrived during the rise of luxury steel sports watches with integrated bracelets, but only 598 pieces were produced between 1976 and 1983, making it one of IWC’s most coveted vintage models today. Its design also provided the blueprint for the modern Ingenieur, which IWC revived in 2023 with its five-screw bezel, integrated bracelet and signature grid dial. For the anniversary, the Ingenieur Automatic arrives in 40mm and 35mm versions, each limited to 1,150 pieces and featuring brushed silver-plated dials inspired by a rare variation of the original. A small anniversary Easter egg replaces the Ingenieur logo’s usual lightning bolt with the number “50,” while both watches come in stainless steel with rhodium-plated hands and Super-LumiNova-filled markers. The 40mm houses IWC’s 32111 caliber with a 120-hour power reserve, while the 35mm features the 47110 caliber visible through a sapphire caseback. The releases join an Ingenieur family that has expanded considerably since 2023, now spanning steel, titanium, gold and ceramic alongside complications including a perpetual calendar and tourbillon.