Fashion Revolution Week 2026 has chosen Active Collaboration as its theme. We chose to tell this story through episodes in fashion history that demonstrate the power of unity. There’s an image that endures in the collective imagination of fashion: the designer who creates alone, signs alone, and receives applause alone. A powerful image, built over decades by biographies and documentaries. In reality, there are moments when fashion has truly left its mark on the world. Real changes—those that have shifted standards of beauty, opened the runways to those previously excluded, and built global movements—have arisen every time someone has chosen not to act alone. This belief is the basis for…