Issue 88

Autumn Season Opener — Best Fashion Retailer Award 2026 Inside

WeAr Global Magazine #88 is the autumn season opener for WeAr 4/2026. This is the issue buyers and brand managers read to understand what the market looks like heading into the new order season. It announces this year’s Best Fashion Retailer of the World Award winners, covers the trend directions shaping the upcoming season, and asks the defining question of the moment: what separates the businesses that are thriving from those that are not?

Two major brand interviews. Five Storebook retail destinations. Two seasonal trend reports. A special report on China’s shifting retail landscape. And the full Lookbook with 200+ brands. Cover artist: Marta Contreras Simo.

What You’ll Find Inside

  • Best Fashion Retailer of the World Award 2026 — this year’s winners revealed, plus 2027 nominations
  • Womenswear trend: Racquet Codes — court style entering the mainstream wardrobe; Diesel, Sacai, JW Anderson, Chanel, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren
  • Menswear trend: The Double-Breasted Suit: Softening the Rules — Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton
  • Report: From Point of Sale to Point of Experience — HUGO BOSS and the CLAIM 5 strategy as a case study in experience-led brand building: BOSS Open, Art Basel, the Australian Open, Biennale di Venezia
  • Report: China’s New Retail Connectors — how a new generation of multi-brand buyer stores is reshaping access to the Chinese market
  • Interview: Jeff Goldfarb, G-III Apparel Group — Donna Karan, DKNY, Karl Lagerfeld, Vilebrequin, Marc Jacobs
  • Interview: Michael Buckley, CEO True Religion — on doubling a fashion brand’s revenue
  • Next Generation: Wakana Abe, Tokyo
  • Storebook: Alex Eagle Studio (London) · GR8 (Tokyo) · Helmut Eder (Kitzbuhel) · Ka Yo Kitchen (Stockholm) · Wok Gallery (Milan)
  • Business Talk: market updates on El Corte Ingles, Omoda, Loewe, NikeSKIMS, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton
  • Lookbook with 200+ brands

Read the full editorial overview and brand index


About WeAr Global Magazine

WeAr is the leading international fashion trade workbook, published quarterly in 8 languages — English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese and Russian — and distributed to buyers and fashion decision makers worldwide. Editorial content covers fashion, footwear and luxury accessories from the high-end and exclusive fashion sector. Focused on the very best in fashion and retail worldwide.

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