From Love Letters To Heist Jewels, 5 Exquisite Spring Couture Accessory Trends
Couture Fashion Week usually delivers on red-carpet dress contenders, fantasy wedding wear and surrealist social-media fodder. Couture Fashion Week SS26 supplied so much more. Sure, the VVIPs were taken care of, but mere mortals were also sent into a tailspin as two newcomers, Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Matthieu Blazy of Chanel, delivered inspiration for those who normally take a voyeuristic (read: digital) view of the shows and see front-row spotting as a kind of sport. While the devil was still most certainly in the detail, there was a relaxing of the strict, corseted codes of this rarefied sphere. The joyful mood of the last ready-to-wear season seemed to live on in the ateliers, where the new-meets-old teams created a fresh kind of couture alchemy in, as Anderson said, “the laboratory of ideas where experimentation is inseparable from craft”. Here, five accessory trends that will be the linchpin of high fashion editorials for spring/summer 2026.