LFW presents a busy season with the return of Joseph and the latest collection from Paul Costelloe

London Fashion Week has unveiled a busy schedule for its upcoming runway season in February that includes the return of British fashion brand Joseph and the late Paul Costelloe's final collection.

Scheduled to run from Thursday, February 19 to Monday, February 23, the five-day event will feature some 46 shows and 15 other presentations, according to the official calendar published Friday by the British Fashion Council. In addition to 19 purely digital presentations made on the last day by new designers. The season will present the autumn/winter 2025/26 collections.

The house of Paul Costelloe will open the season at noon Thursday with a posthumous show for the late great Irish designer, known for being Princess Diana's personal designer. Costelloe died at age 80 in November.

While Burberry, by far the UK's leading luxury brand, will cap the season on Monday with an evening show by its designer Daniel Lee.

As noted, Joseph will return to London after a seven-year hiatus. The newly appointed creative director Mario Arena will show his second collection for the brand. In another comeback, Julien Macdonald will return to the catwalk after half a decade away.

The week will feature many of London's leading forward designers including Erdem, Simone Rocha, Richard Quinn and Harris Reed.

However, several well-respected designers are missing from the calendar, including Roksanda and Molly Goddard. While formerly London's most popular show, JW Anderson, will be absent as the Northern Irish designer turns the label into a lifestyle brand while concentrating on his main job in Paris, creative director of Dior.

Although the biggest attraction of LFW is often the discovery of new and avant-garde talent, graduates of great fashion universities in the United Kingdom, such as Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion or Loughborough University. Therefore, hundreds of buyers and editors will flock to joint graduate shows or multi-designer catwalks like Fashion East, which to most observers remains the world's largest fashion incubator.