Ralph Lauren Opens New York Fashion Week With Spring 2027 Women's Collection Show
Ralph Lauren Corporation kicked off New York Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2027 season on the evening of 8 September, holding its women's Collection show ahead of the official schedule. The week itself runs 9–15 September, with Ralph Lauren and Coach both opening off-schedule, according to Wallpaper Wallpaper. WWD described the runway as the brand's spring 2027 show and reported that it unofficially opened the week on a Wednesday WWD.
The runway content was available on Ralph Lauren's own website from 3:15 a.m. PT on 3 September through 11:59 p.m. PT on 8 September, per the brand's runway page Ralph Lauren. The show's arrival in New York follows the label's Spring/Summer 2027 men's presentation at Milan Fashion Week in June 2026, where the "Dream Racers" collection — comprising the Purple Label and Polo lines — opened with soft neutral and indigo tones, Reuters reported Reuters. Ralph Lauren celebrated that Milan showing with a dinner party it called an "American Moment in Milan" Vogue.
The women's show lands as the company, which trades at a market capitalisation of $23.1 billion, posts strong numbers. First-quarter revenue for Fiscal 2027 reached $2.0 billion, up 14 percent on a reported basis and 13 percent in constant currency, according to the company's earnings release Ralph Lauren Corporate. Fiscal 2027 is a 53-week year for the company Ralph Lauren Corporate.
Women's is where the brand sees its clearest path forward. Ralph Lauren has described women's as its most exciting growth opportunity, and its strategic plan — "Next Great Chapter: Drive," unveiled the prior year — identified outerwear, women's and handbags as high-potential categories, WWD reported WWD.
Beyond the runway, the brand has been busy across sport and retail. Ralph Lauren and the All England Lawn Tennis Club revealed a multiyear extension of their longstanding partnership, announced alongside the brand's Wimbledon activation. In tennis's other Grand Slam, Nordstrom opened a limited-time pop-up spotlighting Polo's latest U.S. Open collection alongside Ralph Lauren signature styles, and the brand unveiled an immersive hospitality suite inspired by the Polo Bar at Arthur Ashe Stadium WWD.
In China — a market that makes up a smaller portion of Ralph Lauren's global business — the brand runs live shopping sessions from its women's store on Douyin, the short-video platform owned by ByteDance WWD.
What ties these threads together is a company leaning hard into the categories it has flagged as growth drivers, with women's front and centre on the calendar's most watched stage. The men's side already had its moment in Milan; the women's Collection show in New York is the counterpart.
