The best fashion designers are fortunetellers, able to predict what we’ll be craving next season long before we know ourselves. Here at ELLE, we’re also in the business of sartorial forecasting, reading the tea leaves in every naked shoe and 18th century revival on the runway. Which is why I’m so proud of our annual Future of Fashion package, a franchise I started six years ago. For the 2026 edition, we look at three emerging talents hailing from Greece, England, and Brooklyn-by-way-of-Trinidad. We also examine some of the most intriguing trends sweeping the industry right now, from the rise of “little luxuries” to the renewed importance of personal style in the age of AI. Dig into all of our predictions below.
—Véronique Hyland, fashion features director
