Your look inside the Calvin Klein Collection Spring 2026 NYFW show
With the embers of her debut Calvin Klein Collection NYFW Fall 2025 show still glowing softly in the corners of our collective memory, Veronica Leoni reignited the flame for Spring 2026 with her sophomore runway showcase.
As the first woman to lead the brand in its history—and one of the few women at the helm of a major fashion house today—she continues to chart a course that celebrates the very essence of Calvin Klein Collection as we remember it: poised, precise, and always for the people.
Following her debut, Spring 2026 proves that Leoni has done her homework—but perhaps not in the way one might expect. Yes, she has clearly studied the brand’s great lineage, steering it back into familiar territory with superb tailoring. Yet rather than bow to nostalgia, she has turned her sights and studies to the people who live and breathe the essence of both the brand and its hometown: New York City.
I like to imagine Leoni sitting outside a Lower Manhattan café, sipping a macchiato and scribbling musings of commuters, night owls, and city slickers passing by. Each becomes a muse for an elevated everyday wardrobe—always intentional, no matter the occasion. These are the kind of people whose enviable, purposeful energy makes you double-take, and Leoni translates that spirit onto the runway with a meaningful, modern, and expertly minimalist urban wardrobe, rooted in the raw beauty of real life.
Low-slung trench coats and heavy duster jackets embodied a grab-and-go mentality, a unifying uniform for rush-hour metro rides and dusk-til-dawn endeavours alike. Bathrobes—ingeniously crafted from laser-cut leather to mimic a terrycloth texture—spoke to the mundanity of checking the mailroom, while intentional flashes of Calvin Klein lingerie recalled the brand’s infamous provocative underwear ads of the ’90s. 
Fabrication and construction elevated the ordinary: a classic turtleneck reimagined in semi-sheer silk that pools around the neck; dramatic full fringing transforming cocktail attire; blazers twisted into fresh silhouettes; exaggerated upturned cuffs; and peekaboo layers of contrast. Each detail magnified normality into something remarkable, with every look united by a practical, almost poetic touch—keys clipped to belt loops or handbags.
And where there is Calvin Klein Collection, there is tailoring. For Spring 2026, it pushed beyond corporate boundaries: silk bubblegum-pink shirting and co-ords, plunging scoop necklines hinting at what lies beneath, monochrome suits with relaxed ease. This was 9-to-5, but not as you know it.
With two runway reveals now behind her, Leoni has firmly re-anchored Calvin Klein Collection in its foundations of elevated tailoring and effortless sensuality. What once felt like a relic of 1990s glory has been resuscitated with conviction, and in her hands, the brand certainly has the potential to define the decade ahead.
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