A city is alive. Bodies—human, animal, whatever have you—course through a metropolis’s channels and arteries, breathing life into the concrete, brick, and steel that shape its infrastructure. Even in the dead of night, avenues hum; steam exhales from subway grates; taxis glide past in streaks of amber.
Burberry’s Winter 2026 show at London Fashion Week captures that vitality of life in a metropolis. The British fashion house delivered a collection slick, versatile, and undeniably urban, designed for the Londoner after dark.
Every city holds a tension between individuality and community—a sense of standing among thousands while preserving the freedom of singularity. “We all walk the same roads,” says Burberry Chief Creative Officer Daniel Lee. “We’re all lit by the same streetlamps. We all feel the same buzz of the city at night.”
The collection speaks to this sentiment, offering elevated, modern takes on classic silhouettes: trench coats tossed over satin dresses, raw-edge shearling jackets, quilted bombers recast in leather. Each piece lends a fresh edge to the familiar.
Some of the most compelling talents from Britain and beyond attended Burberry’s London Fashion Week showing, including supermodel Kate Moss; stars of HBO’s hit series Industry Myha’la and Marisa Abela; artist and producer PinkPantheress; and actors Daisy Edgar Jones, Tom Blythe, Simone Ashley, and Matthew Macfadyen, among many others.
Models moved through a set steeped in London iconography, striding across resin puddles pooled on the stage floor and weaving past a scaffolded vision of Tower Bridge. The show stands as a love letter to a city that, across nearly 2,000 years, continues to evolve at full speed.
