A return on fashion week’s final evening
Sabyasachi Mukherjee returned to New York Fashion Week on 15 September 2026, nearly eighteen years after his previous appearance. Christy Turlington opened the 72-look spring/summer 2027 presentation at Spring Studios. Titled “Bengal Byzantine Broadway,” the collection joined familiar American Western pieces with the detailed handwork of Indian ateliers.
Denim, plaid shirts, waistcoats and cowboy hats did not read as costume. Paired with hand-beaded coats, quilted linings and delicate tulle embroidery, the familiar American wardrobe acquired a different cultural depth.
Quiet clothes, emphatic jewellery
The collection’s restrained surfaces created a deliberate backdrop for the brand’s new fine-jewellery collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Solid-gold and gemstone pieces informed by Byzantine, Etruscan and other historical objects were not secondary accessories; they became the visual climax of the story.
The show’s strongest proposition was not nostalgia. Sabyasachi demonstrated how handwork can operate as a contemporary, international language of luxury in a fashion system increasingly accelerated by technology.
