Vogue December 2025 shares ‘The Debutants’ a fashion story built around the Spring 2026 collections, styled by Amanda Harlech. Models include Ajus Samuel, Alex Consani, Angelina Kendall, Awar Odhiang, Charlie Jones, Ella Mccutcheon, FeiFei Sun, Jill Kortleve, Lulu Tenney and Stella Hanan.

Photographer Mikael Jansson [IG] captures fresh runway looks from Balenciaga, Celine, Dior, Loewe, and Maison Margiela./ Hair by Eugene Soulemain; makeup by Karin Westerlund

Read all the details on Vogue.com.

Note that Matthew Blazy at Chanel and a solo feature in the November 2025 issue of Vogue, lensed by Raf Pavarotti.

Two thoughts from Anne of Carversville about the Spring 2026 collections. The first comes from Coco Chanel herself [as quoted on Vogue Runway]:

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”

The second idea is the growing disconnect between the critics and the clients in culture generally. This disconnect deepens when online voices have a vested interest in clicks. Forget the fact that they’ve never set foot in Paris, let-alone a Chanel or Dior or Gucci or Prada anywhere in the world.

In the case of the Spring 2026 new designer debuts — and now this fashion story ‘Debutantes’ from the December issue of American Vogue — Vogue Runway confirms what us low-key observers felt strongly: Matthieu Blazy’s debut won the hearts and minds of women for many reasons.

Nicole Phelps noted what online critics tend not to consider: not only was Blazy unusually sensitive to the codes of the House of Chanel; Blazy lit up our “desire receptors”.

Cathy Horn is not everyone’s favorite critic, but she leans correct in her assessments. Horn’s focus — like Phelps’, Lauren Sherman at Puck, and my own — is not on the brilliance of the designer but the women wearing the clothes. AND — I apologize profusely in advance — is the client motivated to get out her credit card in support of this designer and/or the house.

If the brand’s focus is women under 35, a new designer’s collection must be evaluated against Miu Miu. AOC circled back to Vogue Runway, not only because of the ‘Debutantes’ fashion story, but because two facts can be true at the same time.

Critics were unmerciful on Hulu’s new lady lawyer’s show. I haven’t watched ‘All’s Fair’ but it’s already been renewed for a second season and it’s the biggest Hulu originals, scripted debut in three years. So far, there’s no falloff in viewers of the alleged ‘worst show ever created’, one slammed relentlessly by critics ‘All’s Fair’.

Maybe today’s women just need a break on occasion, and the producers of ‘All’s Fair’ — Kim Kardashian and the top momager of them all — Kris Jenner — gave the little people what we desperately need. A respite from Trumpworld and plunging American confidence that the powers that be know what they are doing.

For AOC, the assault on ‘Wicked: For Good’ generated this commentary. Condemnation among the critics wasn’t universal, but the disparity on Rotten Tomatoes between the little people who loved it — and the critics who hated it — is HUGE.

When two witches are trying to work things out for the little people — and save the one born green in the process — you are messing with me.

In another few months, we will get a feel for how luxury brands are performing globally among buying clients — after all the fanfare around this once in a century, mostly white-male brilliance that hit the spring 2026 runways and the December 2025 issue of Vogue.

None of us wish bad tidings on any of these great brands. Do the business-oriented brainiacs have a collective favorite or two? Yes, we do. But our opinions are very easy to evaluate, based on financial performance. Onwards. ~ Anne