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Anthony Vaccarello closed his decade at Saint Laurent with a show staged beneath the Eiffel Tower that made gold the entire vocabulary of the collection. Lamé, brocade, lace and even latex brushed with gold leaf ran through sparkling skirts, burnished animal prints and satin tailoring, before the finale pivoted into stark black looks that read as an emotional full stop. Charlotte Gainsbourg sang during the final walk.

On October 9 the house officially confirmed Vaccarello's departure after ten years, which turned a strong season-closer into a fashion-historical moment overnight. The retrospectives followed within hours: W magazine posted a 17-slide carousel of stars in his Saint Laurent, and ELLE and Vogue ran their own tributes.

For shopping, the takeaway is metallic evening dressing worn with real confidence: gold lamé separates, pleated gold clutches, mid-heel gold sandals. Not subtle shimmer — the full Vaccarello register, worn after dark with black tailoring to ground it.

The defining footwear story of fall 2026 is the boot, and it arrives in two moods at once. On one side, the technical hybrid boot has gone full luxury: ROA and Hiroshi Fujiwara's fragment just released their first Andreas boot collaboration, a black kudu-leather build with an electric-blue Vibram outsole and metallic lace hooks, selling at concept store V.A. and ROA's own online store for 121,000 yen.

LOEWE and On pushed the same idea with the Cloudsolo Hiker, an $890 trail-hardened evolution of their co-designed silhouette in tan, dark brown and black. And today, October 10, Danner and MIYAGIHIDETAKA's first collaboration lands in Daikanyama: an all-black, Western-embroidered suede work boot with a removable zip attachment, made in Japan at 69,300 yen.

On the other side, the classics are being rebuilt for weather. UGG woke up its 1999 Birch archive as the Birch Boot II — waterproof nubuck with a fully sheepskin-lined shaft at $255 — and stylist Joel Lyall wears the revival daily in the brand's new Fall 2026 campaign. Street style keeps confirming the rule: chunky, weatherproof soles under everything from cargo trousers to relaxed tailoring.

Every fall 2026 trend roundup lands on the same conclusion: the boot is the purchase of the season, and the knee-high is its flagship silhouette. The directions are remarkably consistent — polished leather riding boots, slouchy suede knee-highs, equestrian-inspired ankle boots, and burgundy pairs that fold the season's colour story into footwear.

On the Paris streets the formula was already set: knee-high leather boots under midi trench hemlines, over slim trousers, or with pleated midi skirts. The styling gestures are as specific as the boots themselves — one jean leg tucked in and the other left out, sweaters tied at the hips to shift the proportion above the boot line, tall boots with stirrup pants for colder weather.

What makes this a buy-now trend rather than a runway abstraction is inventory: the exact silhouettes the street style set is wearing are in stock at accessible prices right now, from the classic black leather riding boot to the softer slouchy suede version.

Knitwear is doing the talking this fall. The season's sweaters carry actual personality — oversized graphics, fair isle, heavy cable knits, argyle reimagined — while the unlikely hero of the year, the quarter-zip, completes its comeback from office-wear punchline to the most versatile layer a man can own.

Dries Van Noten led the patterned-vest charge, GQ's editors flagged the tight high v-neck and reworked argyle as 2026 signals, and J.Press built its whole 125th-anniversary FW26 campaign around brushed Shaggy Dog crewnecks in autumn colorways like Autumn Orange — hand-brushed Scottish Shetland wool, made in Scotland, $285.

The styling rule everyone agrees on: let the knit be the loudest thing in the room. Graphic or textured sweater over straight jeans and simple boots, accessories kept minimal.

Jewelry has decisively left the quiet-luxury era. The fall 2026 story is sculptural gold with an '80s accent: oversized domed cuffs, bombé rings and earrings with rounded architectural volume, chunky molten hoops, brooches worn on blazer lapels, sweater sleeves, even scarves. The through-line is dimension — smooth, tactile, three-dimensional metal that reads as wearable art.

The runways seeded this months ago, with statement gold at Saint Laurent and Givenchy widely cited in the fall jewelry roundups. But it is the styling that made it a street trend: chunky gold hardware treated as a standalone design element against neutral wools and cashmeres, a single statement cuff over a knit sleeve.

Bombé is the insider word of the season — the domed, bulky silhouette giving earrings, rings and pendants their volume. The current rule is one bold piece against simple clothes, not a matched set; the matchy-matchy sets and ultra-dainty pieces of recent years are explicitly out.

Suede is the season's texture. It reads warmer and richer than leather, and it is showing up everywhere that matters: Milan's runways recast the classic trucker jacket in buttery-soft suede, brown suede shoes are prized for the way they age, and the Birkenstock Boston in taupe suede has become the default off-duty shoe of the fashion set.

The appeal is practical as well as visual. Suede sits between casual and refined, pairing with cream, olive and dark denim alike — which is why the A.P.C. x Clarks Originals collaboration, launched October 9, put ribbed suede meant to recall denim at the center of its Weaver and Desert Boot reworks.

The investment piece: James Perse's suede trucker in Smokey Grey, $1,995. Buttery-soft, endlessly layerable, and the exact silhouette the runways endorsed.

Black has been quietly demoted. The neutral of fall 2026 is chocolate brown — espresso, cocoa, tobacco — with burgundy, merlot and oxblood as its co-star, supported by moss green, caramel and cream. The palette walked the Paris sidewalks as tonal, head-to-toe dressing: deep espresso trench coats, oxblood midi skirts, layered terracotta and olive.

One widely repeated styling note is that brown and black worn together is now among the most modern combinations in the book, not a faux pas. The colour story is commercial, not just editorial: chocolate, tobacco, mocha and burgundy suede bags are the season's defining accessory, and a muted brown 'coco' denim is being positioned as the fall replacement for black trousers.

There are hotter accents for those who want them — hot red, pink, electric blue — but the core buy is the rich neutral: a chocolate knit, an oxblood bag, a burgundy boot. Pieces that will outlast the season because the palette itself is built on wearability.

The box is out; the silhouette is coming back to the body. Saint Laurent's SS27 menswear doubled down on lean tailoring — razor-sharp trousers, slim-cut suits, structured shoulders — and the message across the season is unmistakable: clean, close lines are returning after years of oversized everything.

The news of the week reframes all of it: Anthony Vaccarello is leaving Saint Laurent after ten years, confirmed October 9. That SS27 show — all that precision — now reads as his closing statement, and it will set the tone for whatever comes next at the house.

The new version is softer and easier than the aggressive slim fits of the past decade. Double-breasted jackets cut looser so they work with jeans as well as tailored trousers, the 3-button suit back after a long absence. For fall and winter buying, the move is one well-cut jacket or suit with a cinched waist, not a whole wardrobe.

This season the coat stopped being the thing you throw over the outfit and became the outfit. The dominant textures are plush and tactile: faux fur, shearling, Mongolian lambswool trim, shaggy finishes, oversized collars. On the Paris streets the long leather trench was the uniform — over sheer dresses, gauzy skirts, even sporty shorts.

Two styling details elevated coats from purchase to trend. First, the belt moved off the trousers and onto the coat itself: belting a trench or wool coat at the waist is the season's simplest tailoring trick. Second, the faux-fur jacket crossed from statement piece to street staple — influencer Claire Most's October 9 post in Charlotte Simone's cropped faux-leather and lambswool-trim Maxine is exactly the silhouette the street style photographers were already shooting.

The buy-it-now logic is simple: one great coat does more work this season than any other single purchase, and the current drops make the trend accessible at every price.

Performance gear has finished its migration from trail to high fashion. Rick Owens's SS27 STONE show built personal cooling systems into adidas ClimaCool inflated jackets and previewed an affordable adidas x Rick Owens running shoe for 2027. On went from lab-demo brand to fashion-week fixture with its Loewe partnership.

Palace's Winter 2026 drop leans on heavy-duty GORE-TEX parkas, and Arc'teryx x Beams's KOYO collection puts autumn-inspired patterns on technical shells. The throughline: weatherproofing is no longer the compromise you make for style — it is the style.

The buyable edge right now: Song for the Mute's deconstructed adidas Samba, with its collapsible crumpled heel worn as a mule, releases October 16. And the LOEWE x On Cloudsolo Hiker is already moving at select luxury retailers.

Heritage checks are having a genuine mainstream moment, and it arrived with a royal seal. On October 9 the Princess of Wales stepped out in Belfast in a deep-green tartan pleated skirt with a white ruffle blouse, black coat and a Mulberry handbag — the kind of widely photographed appearance that moves product within days.

The fashion-week version is looser and more playful. Paris street style leaned into checkered accessories — a checkered bag here, plaid tied around the waist over burgundy there — and tartan, houndstooth and plaid are all over the autumn reports across tailoring, coats, skirts and trousers.

The styling note that keeps recurring: checks work best mixed, not matched. A plaid skirt with a plain knit, a check blazer over dark denim, one heritage piece per outfit. It is the most wearable print of the season precisely because it behaves like a neutral.