London’s calling! And Burberry Chief Creative Officer Daniel Lee is on the other end. The pulse of the English city is awoken and spirited through Burberry’s Winter 2026 collection.

In recent seasons, Lee took Burberry to the countryside, and through the English mud of music festival grounds, now he’s ushered us to the much darker, after-hours of London’s electric nightlife. On the flooded tarmac on the grounds of a reconstructed Tower Bridge within Old Billingsgate fish market, Lee emulated the city’s duality, historic and contemporary. Old and new were not at odds; a harmonious spark ignited through the generational unison. “We all walk the same roads,” says Lee. “We’re all lit by the same streetlamps. We all feel the same buzz of the city at night.”

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Red trench, blue trench, leather trench, new trench—Burberry’s infamous coat has long been the epitome of English winters and the star of this season’s collection. Even without the trench, its elements lingered as tailored cuffing, tied trench belts, utilitarian storm tabs, and epaulette-decorated shoulders on mohair, jacquard, wool, and leather.

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Lee’s vision of Burberry is sleek and intentional. Each jacket is designed with day and night wearability in mind; fur coats envelope satin evening slips, while sheer stockings and the hint of a dress peek from light, cover-all trenches. The collection is elevated through a chic combination of clean, solid colors and functional layering. Plaid prints are soaked in jewel tones with subtle signals of the house’s iconic beige sprinkled throughout.

As FKA Twigs’ ‘Eusexua’ scored the runway, the atmosphere turned charged; electric yet intimate, steeped in the familiar pulse of nocturnal London. ‘Everyone’s going somewhere. Everyone’s going out,’ Lee said of the season’s characters—each wrapped in Burberry, threading through the London that inspired the collection.