Today is Earth Day—there’s no better time to go out and touch grass. Some of fashion’s most treasured pieces, like the hauntingly ephemeral finale dress from McQueen’s spring 2007 show, garnered their beauty from their appreciation of nature, and it proves a constant source of both relief and inspiration well beyond the runways, too.
But the runway is our subject here. The spring 2026 couture season was filled to the brim with organic matters. From bouncing cyclamen on models’ ears at Dior to a fantastical mushroom forest at Chanel, the week demonstrated, quite literally, extreme craft in its most natural habitat. The fall 2026 shows continued this narrative with an abundance of mossy happenings. Among them were Miu Miu’s study in boyish utilitarianism, where the moss-covered runway blended with the grungy fur hems of seemingly disintegrating dresses and jackets, and Nicolas Ghesquière’s examination of “architectural clothing that could express different cultures around the globe” at Louis Vuitton, with its sloping green set crafted by Severance’s surrealist production designer Jeremy Hindle.
