London Fashion Week, which is under new leadership after 16 years, opened on Thursday with hopes of reinvigorating its runway schedule and easing the financial woes of its young designers. “This season marks… the beginning of a new era for British fashion,” said Laura Weir, former creative director of luxury department store Selfridges, who replaced Caroline Rush as the head of the British Fashion Council (BFC) in April. Weir faces an uphill battle to allay concerns about the relevance and international standing of the fashion week, with the departure in recent years of big fashion names to its star-studded counterparts in Milan, Paris and New York. A model presenting a creation from the Sprayground catwalk show at London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026. Also presenting their spring/summer collections will be British fashion icons such as Paul Costelloe and Burberry − which weathered the storm of a difficult year for luxury fashion and US tariffs − and London catwalk regulars Roksanda and Dilara Findikoglu.