Natasha Poly, Daiane Sodré, Candice Swanepoel, Amelia Gray and Ming Xi by Steven Meisel.
There was a time when the gym bag was something you tried to hide before heading anywhere else; ALO would now like us to consider the possibility that it might be the best-looking thing we carry all day. For Autumn/Winter 2026 , the Los Angeles wellness label returns with the second chapter of its handbag collection, bringing new silhouettes, Italian-made leather, a clever new take on mesh and, for the first time, a full range of small leather goods.
Following the previous collaborations with Bella Hadid and Kylie Jenner , the latest collection is taken over by fashion photographer Steven Meisel, who returns with a high-energy campaign featuring supermodels Amelia Gray , Candice Swanepoel and Daiane Sodré alongside newcomers Ming Xi and Natasha Poly .
“Building on the iconic visual language of our first bag campaign, we wanted to evolve the story through new faces, unexpected propping, and a greater sense of movement,” says Summer Nacewicz , ALO’s Executive Vice President of Marketing & Creative. “Steven brought an energy to the imagery that feels both sexy and inherently sporty – capturing the confidence, magnetism, and momentum that define the women who carry these bags.”
Natasha Poly and Ming Xi by Steven Meisel.
At the centre of the collection is the new Unwind Cinch, a softly structured silhouette arriving in medium and mini sizes, with the proportions designed to accommodate the realities of daily life without looking remotely like standard gym equipment. The bag comes in black, espresso and warm gravel, with each paired with one of ALO’s Intention Crystals: Smoky Quartz, associated with grounding and protection, or Yellow Tiger’s Eye, which the brand links to confidence, courage and personal strength.
Leather Mesh brings another twist to the collection, taking one of ALO’s most recognisable sporty materials and translating it into Italian leather. The laser-cut pattern creates an airy, perforated surface before each piece is finished by hand in Florence, and the fabrication appears across the Mini Unwind Bag, Shoulder Voyage and Tranquility Tote.
“We were inspired by one of the most prominent fabrications in our line, mesh; and wanted to interpret it in leather to create something entirely new,” says Abby Gordon, ALO’s Chief Design & Merchandising Officer.
The Shoulder Voyage gives ALO’s familiar Voyage silhouette a more compact shape suited to everyday wear, while the Leather Mesh Tranquility Tote takes the same perforated treatment into a larger carryall. Elsewhere, the collection continues with more traditional leather versions, all made in Florence from responsibly sourced Italian leather and finished with hand-painted edges and custom-forged hardware.
Amelia Gray and Candice Swanepoel by Steven Meisel.
For the first time, ALO is also moving beyond bags with a small leather goods collection comprising a card holder, zip card holder, zip around wallet, passport cover and small crescent pouch. The pieces are made using the same Italian leather and construction as the handbags.
The ALO Autumn/Winter 2026 Accessories Collection is now available to preorder at ALO Sanctuaries worldwide and online. Purchases will start from 16 September. Discover more here .
photography. courtesy of Steven Meisel for ALO words. Gennaro Costanzo
Tilda Swinton by Sølve Sundsbø for Cartier.
Tilda Swinton has found herself surrounded by more animals than you would normally expect on a film set. For her first project as Cartier ’s new global ambassador, the Scottish actress steps into ‘ Into the Wild ’, a high-jewellery campaign populated by tigers, parrots, carp, crocodiles and rhinoceroses, alongside the Maison’s enduring Panthère.
Cartier’s relationship with animals goes back to the early 20th century, when birds and insects first entered the Maison’s jewellery vocabulary before reptiles, big cats, chimeras, zebras and elephants joined the cast. The Panthère eventually became the undisputed star, first appearing as a three-dimensional sculptural creation in 1948. ‘Into the Wild’ now gives some of its less familiar creatures their own moment too.
Swinton lends her voice to a series of short films exploring the artisans and techniques behind Cartier’s animal creations. Gold lacquer, marquetry, mosaic and other specialist crafts become part of the story, turning the animals from static jewels into characters with their own little worlds.
“We celebrate here the exceptional beauty of these rare techniques, and the dedication of the artisans involved. They have created the perfect imaginary world to showcase Cartier’s savoir-faire and how it comes to life in precious wild fauna creations,” she says.
“I am very proud to become a Cartier ambassador and to lend my voice to this shared creative adventure.”
Tilda Swinton by Sølve Sundsbø and Paola Dossi for Cartier.
At the heart of the collection is a series of Faune & Flore de Cartier rings, each built around the head of one of five animals: tiger, parrot, carp, crocodile and rhinoceros. They are intentionally substantial, with jaws, beaks and muzzles extending across the hand rather than sitting politely on a finger.
Cartier’s artisans have pushed the sculptural quality further through combinations of white, yellow, and rose gold, lacquer and an elaborate selection of precious and ornamental stones.
The Faune & Flore de Cartier tiger ring is particularly striking in shades of blue, using sapphires, aquamarine, diamonds and dumortierite quartz to recreate its stripes, while the parrot ring turns up the colour with a platinum and yellow gold base, coral, onyx, and tsavorite garnets. The rhinoceros ring gets spessartite garnet, grey agate and smoky quartz, giving its enormous head a more muted orange and opaline palette, while the crocodile ring combines diamonds, emeralds and onyx spikes in Cartier’s familiar high-contrast language.
The tiger and crocodile also escape the confines of the ring with matching bracelets and necklaces. Their heads are comparatively realistic, but the bodies take a more abstract route, formed from articulated links and graphic stone patterns that move with the wearer.
The Faune & Flore de Cartier crocodile bracelet and matching necklace feature a head clasp whose articulated mouth actually bites onto the back of the strap, while diamonds, onyx, chrysoprase and rubellites run through the flexible body.
The Faune & Flore de Cartier tiger bracelet and necklace follow the same idea in a colder palette of sapphires, aquamarine, chalcedony, and dumortierite quartz, with movable gold links creating a body that shifts around the wrist. Its clasp is hidden inside the animal’s mouth, a piece of engineering that Cartier developed specifically so the mechanism would not interrupt the silhouette.
Then, naturally, there is the Panthère. Cartier’s most famous feline returns in an immaculate white gold Panthère de Cartier bracelet, its two panther heads covered in diamonds arranged in contrasting caviar and galuchat-effect settings to suggest fur and light.
The collection also introduces a Panthère jewellery watch, a medallion-shaped creation inspired by the ancient art of cameos and crafted by the Maison des Métiers d’Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. On its dial, onyx forms the nose and surface details, tsavorite garnets become the eyes and diamonds take over the bezel and lugs.
The feline footprint extends into a yellow gold Panthère de Cartier bracelet with black lacquer spots, matching diamond earrings and a sleek black karung leather Panthère Double mini bag fitted with a gold-finished chain.
“The Cartier fauna is distinguished by its character. First of all, in the choice of species – big cats, reptiles, savannah animals… – and also in the creative treatment, between naturalism and extreme stylisation,” explains Pierre Rainero, Director of Image, Style and Heritage at Cartier.
“Through the interplay of design, materials, and execution, Cartier questions the very perception of the animal and opens up extraordinary possibilities for exploring forms. Each creature, each creation reveals its own symbolic force, reflects an attitude, a personality trait or a state of mind.
It becomes an opportunity to deliver a message about yourself.”
The campaign extends the collection beyond the jewellery itself, with white and yellow gold Faune & Flore de Cartier pins shaped as miniature crocodiles and tigers. With a diamond-covered panther, a smiling crocodile and enough precious stones to start a small geological museum, ‘Into the Wild’ makes one thing very clear: Cartier’s animal kingdom has never been one to stay put on the leash.
The new high jewellery creations are available to discover now across global flagship boutiques and online. Discover more here .
photography. courtesy of Sølve Sundsbø and Paola Dossi for Cartier words. Gennaro Costanzo
Sabrina Carpenter and Jonathan Anderson by Olimpia Taliani De Marchio.
Jonathan Anderson is taking Dior into a very unexpected new chapter, teaming up with A24 on a two-year creative partnership that will bring fashion, film, theatre and live performance into the same room. The Parisian house and New York’s notoriously cool entertainment company have announced a programme centred around Cherry Lane Theatre , but the collaboration has already arrived with a fittingly strange introduction: Sabrina Carpenter dressed as Anderson, walking on a treadmill.
Directed by Aidan Zamiri , the surreal short film sees Carpenter swap her usual pop-star wardrobe for Anderson’s recognisable flannel, jeans and trainers as she performs an uncanny impression of Dior’s creative director on a walking pad. Josh O’Connor, Drew Starkey , Camille Cottin and Sophie Wilde join her, each playing their own version of Anderson as the film turns the designer’s famously individual style into something funny, slightly bizarre and very A24.
The cast also showcases co-branded T-shirts, giving the partnership its first piece of merch before it has even properly begun.
The partnership itself is considerably larger than one internet-friendly fashion film. Dior will become the premier partner of Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village, with the collaboration extending into a wider programme of film, theatre and live events designed to bring established and emerging artists from different creative worlds together.
Drew Starkey and Camille Cottinby by Olimpia Taliani De Marchio.
A24 acquired Cherry Lane in 2023 and reopened the historic venue in September 2025, giving one of New York’s oldest Off-Broadway theatres another life as a home for theatre, comedy, music and film. The venue has hosted generations of performers and writers since opening in 1923, including Eugene O’Neill, F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Lorraine Hansberry, while its current programme has included everything from Sofia Coppola’s ‘Sundays with Sofia’ screening series to live performances by Haim, Tame Impala and Lizzy McAlpine.
For the opening chapter of the Dior partnership, Cherry Lane will host ‘Both Ends’, a one-off performance by Justin Vivian Bond produced and directed by Zack Winokur and inspired by poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of the theatre’s founders. Anderson has designed Bond’s costumes especially for the performance, including an archival Paul Poiret piece connected to Millay and to Dior’s Winter 2026 collection .
That Poiret connection is particularly interesting because Anderson has been increasingly interested in the messy, entertaining relationship between fashion history and popular culture. His Dior collections have already played with cinema, art and historical references, while his recent Resort 2027 show in Los Angeles leaned knowingly into Hollywood clichés and featured collaborations with American artist Ed Ruscha.
“There’s something thrilling about putting two creatively driven worlds side by side,” Anderson says. “You start to see what they pull out of each other that neither could’ve found alone.
That’s where the interesting stuff happens.”
Sabrina Carpenter, Jonathan Anderson and Sophie Wilde by Olimpia Taliani De Marchio.
For Dior, the two-year programme will also include support for students and younger creatives, with opportunities intended to expose a new generation to both the artistic and practical sides of film and theatre. More details on the wider two-year programme will be announced at a later date. Find out more here .
photography. courtesy of Olimpia Taliani De Marchio for Dior , Cherry Lane Theatre words. Gennaro Costanzo
Loewe Perfumes is giving perfume the full art-object treatment again, but this time there are five new bottles to add to the cabinet. Following the launch of its Crafted Collection last autumn, the Spanish house is expanding its most luxurious fragrance line with ‘Field Diary’, ‘Sweet Woodland’, ‘Rosetopia’, ‘Smoky Rain’ and ‘Verdant Grove’, five scents that take familiar ingredients somewhere considerably more intriguing.
The launch showcases a material dialogue lensed by photographer Claudia Mauriño inside the legendary Silicon House, an avant-garde plastic and plexiglass structure designed by architects SelgasCano . Each heavy, handblown glass flacon acts as a sculptural object within the light-flooded rooms, capped with naturally textured granite blocks that ensure no two bottles look identical.
The original Crafted Collection was built around the idea of perfumery as an artisanal practice, with each fragrance presented in sculptural bottles inspired by hand-blown glass and finished with granite caps. The new additions continue that approach, treating scent as something that belongs as much on a dressing table as it does on the skin.
The lineup introduces ‘Field Diary’, a bright, citrusy blend of green mandarin, blood orange, and lychee supported by orange blossom and creamy sandalwood, running parallel to the warmer ‘Sweet Woodland’, which spikes mandarin and rose with rich cognac and dark patchouli. Florals receive a completely contemporary rewrite in ‘Rosetopia’, a scent that wraps Damascena rose and pink pepper in a crisp grapefruit and peony envelope.
For darker preferences, ‘Smoky Rain’ coordinates intense incense, white musk, and bergamot, while ‘Verdant Grove’ serves as a creamy gourmand choice, folding pistachio, powdery iris, and warm cedar-wood into a rich caramel base.
Loewe has also extended the collection beyond fragrance with a pistachio candle, alongside ‘Tomato Leaves’ body scrub and hand cream, creating a wider sensory world around some of the house’s favourite botanical references.
The house’s original Crafted fragrances were developed around unusually focused ingredients such as iris, vanilla and oud, with perfumer Nuria Cruelles using unexpected contrasts to pull familiar materials into new territory.
The new Crafted Collection fragrances are available now online. Find out more here .
photography. courtesy of Claudia Mauriño for Loewe Perfumes words. Gennaro Costanzo