News Summary

• Amsterdam Fashion Week returned from September 1 to 5, 2026, spreading more than 40 shows, presentations, exhibitions, talks and workshops across the Dutch capital.
• The programme brought emerging designers together with established names while entering the second phase of AFW’s partnership with Copenhagen Fashion Week.
• From a windmill, domestic interior, Amsterdam Fashion Week used the city as a testing ground for how fashion can communicate itself as much through clothes as through experience.
• The week began by bringing fashion into dialogue with material and spatial design.
• The New Originals transformed Nxt Museum into something closer to a gathering than a runway for Home Is Where the Heart Is.
• Camiel Fortgens staged his SS27 show inside an Albert Heijn supermarket at Stadionplein after opening hours.