Following its first digital runway show dedicated to sustainable fashion in October of last year, the LA-based PR showroom agency is presenting Digital Cruise II, a virtual show created in partnership with EA Games.

Christian Dior unveiled a caryatid Cruise 2022 collection in Athens on Thursday evening, metaphysical mode by its creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, unveiled inside the city’s giant Panathenaic Stadium.

The almost fully virtual fashion week runs until Tuesday, with only Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Etro hosting physical shows. Highlights include the first collection by Glenn Martens for Diesel and eight new labels.

La mode inspired by monumental art at Louis Vuitton, where Nicolas Ghesquière’s latest collection for the house was unveiled before a massive work of art by Dani Karavan.

Ferrari, with its prancing stallion symbol, may be the ultimate masculine luxury symbol of Italy. But when it launched its first fashion collection this weekend there were more girls than guys on its catwalk.

An almost entirely digital London Fashion Week opened Saturday with humanitarian and eco-responsible visions, best exemplified by Bethany Williams, the socially engaged designer who has long used recycled garments.

With the UK off limits due to many nations due to the pandemic, the next London Fashion Week takes place under tricky conditions, however the British Fashion Council has pulled plenty of action into the season.

Paris Couture Week will feature eight live runway shows in its next season in July, the largest number seen at an important fashion week since the pandemic led to the global lockdown last spring.

Copenhagen Fashion Week’s return to a physical format for SS22 comes with a strong line-up of labels showing at the event from August 10-13. There will be 38 labels showing, including established names and new talent.

The entire audience was all dressed essentially in conformist black for the latest iconoclastic show video of Balenciaga, a Spring 2022 collection revealed in a show video this weekend that was worn by just one model.

The Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the organization that controls the calendar of Paris runway seasons, has unveiled two new digital devices allowing fashion houses to measure their ecological impact.

Venice, with its Biennale exhibition, is the focus of a great deal of attention. Saint Laurent will show the summer 2022 menswear collection in the city on July 14, a day ahead of Valentino’s haute couture show.

Next month’s Paris menswear season, whose provisional calendar was released on Friday, will feature 39 shows in a 72-brand season that also includes five fresh entrants.

Valentino has announced plans to stage its fall/winter 2021 haute couture collection in Venice on July 15, skipping its traditional location in Paris for the third season in a row due to the pandemic.

With production company Division, FashionNetwork.com has analysed the way digital tech and the pandemic have forced labels to rethink how they express themselves, many using virtual catwalk shows as a novel tool.