LAAM Fashion Week (LFW) officially commenced its second edition in Lahore on Friday, 23rd October 2026, opening four days of fashion with a programme spanning established designers, emerging talent, heritage, contemporary fashion and specially curated runway experiences.
Co-created by LAAM and Design651, LAAM Fashion Week Season 2 continues its runway-to-e-tail model, bringing together the breadth of Pakistan’s fashion ecosystem while connecting physical runway showcases with digital discovery, access and commerce.
Season 2 builds considerably on the platform established through LFW’s inaugural edition. Across four days, the Fashion Week will present 43 shows and more than 50 designers and brands, including established fashion houses, independent designers, contemporary and high-street labels, manufacturing and retail-ready brands, and emerging talent.
The second edition also builds on the wider scale of the LAAM ecosystem, which today includes 5 million+ app downloads, 25 million+ active users, 6 million+ shoppers worldwide, 4,000+ active brands and designers and 250,000+ active products, with deliveries reaching more than 1,200 cities globally.
Day 1: Four Shows, One Unforgettable Evening
Day 1 unfolded across four distinct shows, beginning with LFW Presents: Starry Night, followed by The LFW Hot List, an evening Designer Showcase featuring Sania Maskatiya, Saira Rizwan, MIHHA and Deepak Perwani, before concluding with LFW By Invite Only featuring Meeras by Nilofer Shahid.
Show 1: LFW Presents – Starry Night
LAAM Fashion Week Season 2 opened with LFW Presents: Starry Night, a collective showcase bringing together designers from across the season, with each presenting a singular look inspired by the night sky at its most alluring.
Built around a palette of deep midnight blues, inky blacks, rich charcoals and deep purples, punctuated by crisp whites reminiscent of starlight, Starry Night set the visual tone for the opening of Season 2. Crystals, sequins and metallic surfaces caught the runway light, bringing together glamour, drama and evening opulence.
The showcase brought together 22 designers and fashion houses including Hussain Rehar, HSY, Karma, Nickie Nina, Deepak Perwani, Mahgul, Wardha Saleem, Sublime by Sara, Zaheer Abbas, Zainab Chottani, The Pink Tree Company, Faiza Samee, Khaadi, Emraan Rajput, Sania Maskatiya, Meeras by Neelofer Shahid, Mehdi, Mo by Mohsin Tawasuli, Fahad Hussayn, Muse, Waniya by Meher Azam and Kamiar Rokni.
Rather than presenting complete collections, Starry Night brought these different design voices together through a single shared creative proposition, creating an opening tableau that moved across aesthetics, generations and interpretations while retaining one cohesive visual language.
Show 2: The LFW Hot List
The second show of Day 1 turned the focus towards Pakistan’s next generation of fashion talent through The LFW Hot List.
Presented this season in partnership with the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD), The LFW Hot List is designed to bridge academia and industry, giving young designers the opportunity to move their work from the classroom onto a professional Fashion Week runway. Beyond showcasing their creativity, the platform gives emerging designers first-hand exposure to Fashion Week production, presentation and the wider professional fashion ecosystem.
Season 2 features ten capsule collections by emerging designers from PIFD, including Sarah Kamran, Komal Asif, Hadeeqa Khalid, Mahnoor Ijaz, Raonaq Rabnawaz Maken, Namra Fatima, Muhammad Badar, Momina Kashif, Alishbah Javed and Zainab Fatima. Moving across highly individual concepts, the ten collections reflected a diverse range of emerging creative perspectives.
Show 3: Designer Showcase
The Designer Showcase brought together four distinct fashion houses, moving across exuberant contemporary craft, heritage-inspired occasion wear and menswear rooted in legacy.
Sania Maskatiya returned to the Lahore runway with LALEH, an exuberant collection celebrating colour, craftsmanship and the joy of dressing up. Drawing on the defining codes of the Sania Maskatiya design language, LALEH brought together painterly prints, expressive colour, playful layering and intricate heritage craftsmanship. Time-honoured gota techniques were reinterpreted through contemporary silhouettes.
Saira Rizwan presented The Art of Heritage, a collection rooted in the grandeur of Mughal artistry and the richness of South Asian tradition, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Intricate garden scenes, vintage botanical motifs and symmetrical architectural patterns came together across a palette of deep burgundy, rust, antique gold, teal and fuchsia.
MIHHA presented her 2026 Exclusive Collection as part of her LFW debut ramp showcase.
Deepak Perwani presented LEGACY, a menswear collection rooted in traditions of heritage, inheritance and regal elegance. Inspired by the grandeur of the Maharajas and the cultural heritage carried through generations, the collection explored a world in which tradition meets timeless sophistication.
Show 4: LFW By Invite Only – Meeras by Nilofer Shahid
Day 1 concluded with LFW By Invite Only, featuring Meeras by Nilofer Shahid in a specially curated presentation exploring Pakistan’s sartorial journey through the lens of colonialism, identity and reclamation.
The showcase unfolded through distinct historical chapters, beginning with the Nawab Era, drawing on Mughal and Sikh Lahore and a world of layered, richly worked dress. Ghararas, peshwaz, jama-inspired tunics, churidars and long shirts with shalwars referenced a pre-colonial vocabulary of dress, expressed through emerald, ruby, sapphire, gold and ivory alongside vivid Punjabi hues.
The narrative then moved into the colonial period, where the fluidity and richness of indigenous dress gave way to more structured forms. Jackets, trousers, high collars, puffed sleeves, gowns and capes reflected the influence of European silhouettes. The palette became deliberately restrained through regimental reds, navy, black, khaki and stiff ivory.
From there, the presentation moved through post-colonial Pakistan, tracing the evolution of dress across subsequent decades. Flowing ghararas, chiffon saris, maxi dresses, flared trousers and long kameezes reflected changing attitudes towards identity and modernity, while palettes moved from the soft pastels of the 1950s through the expressive prints and earthy tones of the 1970s and the more restrained monochromes associated with the 1980s.
The final chapter arrived at Modern Pakistan, where the histories preceding it were reclaimed and recombined with contemporary design. Stylised saris, ghararas, trousers and jeans paired with embellished jackets, corsets and asymmetric forms represented a more confident fashion identity in which heritage and modern expression no longer exist in opposition.
Through the presentation, Meeras by Nilofer Shahid approached Pakistani dress as a living archive, tracing the ways clothing has absorbed histories of power, cultural change and social identity before arriving at a contemporary moment in which those histories can be consciously reinterpreted.
Looking Ahead
With the conclusion of LFW By Invite Only, Day 1 of LAAM Fashion Week Season 2 came to a close, setting the stage for three further days of designer showcases, high-street and retail fashion, emerging talent and digitally connected runway experiences.
LAAM Fashion Week Season 2 continues through Monday, 26th October 2026.
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