🇬🇧 The light at the end of the tunnel - essentials by nss magazine

Feb 14, 2026

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As the women’s fashion month kicks off in New York, and before the moveable feast of editors, buyers, designers, and models lands in Europe in a frenzy of shows, the first economic results of the year have arrived. At LVMH the situation appears stable, at Kering there’s a timid recovery, and in general for Italian fashion, the darkest hour seems to have passed without the crisis being resolved. All forecasts, in short, seem to point to a 2026 of convalescence for a luxury industry that in recent years has given itself no respite, ultimately collapsing on itself. And between Bad Bunny’s success at the Super Bowl and a series of more or less mysterious absences in the Paris Fashion Week calendar, a light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become visible. But will fashion manage to find the exit?

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