Patrick McDowell isn’t just designing clothes anymore. For Spring/Summer 2026, the London-based designer unveiled “The Lancashire Rose,” his most intimate collection yet and a love letter to the grandmother who first taught him to thread a needle on her 1950s sewing machine. Presented inside Battersea Power Station’s restored Control Room A, the setting mirrored McDowell’s ethos: breathing new life into history without losing its grit.

The clothes carried that same duality of sentiment and strength. One look, a red satin gown layered in organza rose petals, blossomed down the runway like a garden reborn with its color reclaimed through DyeRecycle’s process of pulling dye out of waste. Another moment came when a model swept past in a pale ivory cape and gown created with Circ’s recycling t

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