Every Star On The Front Row At New York Fashion Week

What better way for New York Fashion Week to begin than with some of the greatest hits of one of its best exports? Kicking off the autumn/winter 2026 season was Marc Jacobs, whose self-referential collection – this is, after all, the man who once created a diffusion line called Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs, in collaboration with Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs – plucked from his spring/summer 1993 Perry Ellis and eponymous autumn/winter 1995 offerings, as well as Prada’s spring/summer 1996 and Helmut Lang’s autumn/winter 1995 proposals. What felt new – though, as Jacobs would remind us, nothing ever is, and isn’t that bittersweet? – was the deliberate shapelessness of the silhouette: loose enough to slip your fists into the waistbands on CBK midi-skirts.

What with all the ’90s throwbacks – not least an audience that included Sofia Coppola, Monica and Anna Sui – it felt almost (almost) like a return to the time when New York was at its most influential. Whether that can be sustained over the coming days remains to be seen, but it shouldn’t be impossible: Ralph Lauren is also set to present off-schedule, before Rachel Scott’s debut at Proenza Schouler has even sounded the starting whistle on the CFDA-approved calendar. From there, more of the season’s biggest brands – Coach, Tory Burch, Michael Kors and Calvin Klein, with its attendant circus of A-listers – will front-load the week, while Collina Strada, Eckhaus Latta and Colleen Allen will shift the focus away from household names and towards the next generation of talent intent on reinvigorating the New York scene all over again.

Keep an eye out here for all the stars spotted on the front rows of New York Fashion Week, here.