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Wallpaper* March 2026 Style Issue covers

On the newsstand cover (left), dress, by Dior. Jeans, by Carhartt WIP. Boots, by Acne Studios. On the limited-edition subscriber cover (right), jacket, trousers, both by Tom Ford. Fashion by Jason Hughes

(Image credit: Left, photography: Nicole Maria Winkler. Right, photography: Melanie + Ramon)

All change! It could serve as a mantra for the world right now, but, for the March 2026 Style Issue, we use it to describe the season’s unprecedented reordering of fashion’s high command. The S/S 2026 collections saw debuts by no fewer than 15 creative directors, giving our fashion team cause to focus on the idea of the ‘clean slate’. To this end, we profile two designers on their bold new starts: Glenn Martens, who takes over at Maison Margiela, one of fashion’s most influential houses; and Duran Lantink, whose boundary-pushing debut show for Jean Paul Gaultier in Paris had everybody talking.

Maison Margiela S/S 2026 by Glenn Martens photographed on Paris Street — Coat, £5,200; trousers, £1,560; bag, £1,890, all Maison Margiela S/S 2026 (enquire maisonmargiela.com). Read our interview with Glenn Martens

Fresh chapters abound in other corners. We take a trip to Seoul to check out Wooyoungmi’s monolithic new flagship store as the Korean label enters a new phase; head to the Swiss Alps, where Hauser & Wirth’s hospitality arm Artfarm is breathing new life into a 16th-century guest house; and meet Ilaria Icardi, Prada’s womenswear design director, who recently launched an eponymous jewellery line.

S/S 2026 new season debut collections photographed at Lanesborough hotel in a seris of images that look like they&rsquo;e been shot on a film set — Explore fashion’s ‘great reset’. She wears dress, price on request, by Maison Margiela. He wears jacket, £1,700; shirt, £790; jeans; tie, both price on request, all by Dior. Shoes, £195, by GH Bass. Glasses (in hand), £475, by Cutler and Gross

For our regular digest of the season’s trends, The Glossary, we question what, in our current culture of short attention spans, does ‘newness’ look like? And ahead of a new show launching at MoMu Antwerp, we explore the legacy of the Antwerp Six, a group of radical Belgian designers who changed the global fashion landscape in the 1980s and 1990s.

Elsewhere, we explore the ‘unnatural natural’ new face arising from our Botox and filler fatigue, and highlight the fresh slant on men’s tailoring and womenswear that designers have been taking this season.

Finally, our resident design critic Hugo Macdonald administers a timely blast of fresh thinking to the tired old task of spring cleaning: a balm, he suggests, for both body and soul.

Bill Prince
Editor-in-Chief

The March 2026 Style Issue of Wallpaper* is available in print on newsstands, on the Wallpaper* app on Apple iOS, and to subscribers of Apple News + from 5 February 2025. Subscribe to Wallpaper* today

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Bill Prince is a journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of Wallpaper* and The Blend. Prior to taking up these roles, he served for 23 years as the deputy editor of British GQ. In addition to editing, writing and brand curation, Bill is an acknowledged authority on travel, hospitality and men's style. He is the author of two books, Royal Oak: From Iconoclast To Icon – a tribute to the Audemars Piguet watch at 50 – and The Connaught, a history of the legendary Mayfair hotel, both published by Assouline