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Versace confirmed on Wednesday that Pieter Mulier's first collection as chief creative officer will be haute couture, shown during Paris Couture Week in January 2027, nss magazine reports. It brings Atelier Versace back to the couture calendar for the first time since July 2016; Mulier's ready-to-wear debut comes later, so his clothes won't reach stores until well into 2027.

Atelier Versace was announced in 1989 and first showed in Paris the next year; it paused in 2004 for lack of orders, returned in 2012 and went on hiatus again in 2016. nss reads the couture-first plan as a sign the Prada Group, which now owns Versace, wants to reposition it at the top of luxury, as Mulier did at Alaïa. StyleRave notes Paris Couture Week runs Jan. 25-28 and that the exact date and venue are not yet announced.

Aldo is launching a 20-piece capsule with Beirut couture house Zuhair Murad, priced from $40 to $300, Glossy reports: platform sandals, slingback pumps, evening bags, jewelry and eyewear with metallic finishes and celestial details. It was unveiled online and in stores on Oct. 28, launches globally on Nov. 2, and will sell in about 25 markets including the U.S., U.K., Canada and the Middle East.

It is Aldo's first partnership with a couture house and Murad's first with a mass-market brand, about two and a half years in the making after an introduction through a Middle Eastern Aldo franchisee. "We wanted people... to think, 'I didn't know Aldo could do that,'" said Aldo's Amanda Amar. Murad told Glossy it was a way to reach a much wider audience. The rollout is backed by hundreds of creators and Murad's 10.5 million Instagram followers.

With 60,000 runners and 2 million spectators expected at the Nov. 1 New York City Marathon, brands are filling the week before with pop-ups, carb-loading dinners and "shakeout runs," Glossy reports.

New Balance, Nike, Adidas, On, Puma, Saucony and Hoka are all hosting pre-race shakeout runs; Nike's include a Women's Night run with a live podcast taping, and Saucony's "Jorts Mile" asks runners to do a mile in jean shorts. Vuori is holding pre- and post-race parties and a race-day pop-up. Non-running brands are in too: H&M hosted a run followed by saunas and red-light therapy to launch an H&M Move running capsule, and Manhattan club Moss teamed with Salomon.

Moss's Julie Wandzilak, who ran the 2022 marathon, told Glossy the pre-race shakeout is the best moment for brands because "the training is over."

Food-themed fashion has gone from novelty to saturation, Eater argues. Loewe's summer collection included a $4,150 lambskin tomato clutch, while Walmart sells rotisserie-chicken bag-like purses and charms from $5.97; Moschino has made a trompe l'oeil celery purse.

The piece traces the trend from a chocolate-chip-cookie bag by Puppets and Puppets on a 2020 New York Fashion Week runway through the pandemic-era "strawberry dress" and Tombolo's vongole shirt to 2022's "seafood kitsch." Creator Cole Poska of Beyond Studios, whose fan-made Cheesecake Factory merch went viral, says food brands have "decades of nostalgia" and devoted fans.

The writer points to fatigue (Bon Appétit asked in 2024 why every dress had pasta on it), fast trend cycles that send gimmick pieces to landfill, and rising food prices that make a $425 oyster cardigan land differently.

Prada climbed five places to No. 1 in Lyst's Q3 2026 Index, with demand on the shopping platform up 55% quarter over quarter, its first time on top since Q4 2023, FashionUnited reports. Chanel slipped to No. 2 and Miu Miu to No. 3; Dior, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Chloé and Celine filled out the top 10, with Celine entering it for the first time under Michael Rider after rising five places.

Prada's silk duchesse Wish Pouch led the hottest-products list, ahead of COS's Trullo Flap Bag and the Celine x Reebok Freestyle Lo. Diesel returned to the index after Glenn Martens' final show, Khaite debuted at No. 20, and Conner Ives, Emily Dawn Long and Mfpen were named fastest-rising brands.

Lyst says the index combines the shopping behavior of its 160 million annual users with search, social and other discovery signals.

Nike CEO Elliott Hill said this month the company would pull back on retro Jordan launches to correct an oversupply, after Jordan revenue fell by mid-teens percent in the latest quarter; the brand, which brought Nike $8.7 billion in fiscal 2024, is down about 20% from that level, Retail Dive reports.

That hits Foot Locker, Jordan's biggest wholesale partner. BNP Paribas analyst Laurent Vasilescu estimates Jordan is roughly 25% of Foot Locker's revenue (about $1.85 billion) and that the chain faces a roughly $550 million sales hit from spring 2027 unless it replaces that volume; lower-priced brands like Vans and New Balance would mean selling more pairs. Foot Locker's comparable sales fell 3.6% in Q2, and owner Dick's Sporting Goods, which bought it for $2.4 billion last year, already cut its full-year outlook in August.