Richard Quinn Relaunches Ready-to-Wear With Spring 2027 Show

Richard Quinn's Spring 2027 London show coincided with the relaunch of his ready-to-wear business online, as critics hail his '80s hyper-glamour occasionwear.

Richard Quinn staged his Spring 2027 ready-to-wear show in London on a mirrored, chandelier-hung runway, and used the occasion to relaunch his business to a wider audience. According to Vogue's Sarah Mower, the designer said backstage that the show acts as an advertisement for his online business, with a ready-to-wear line now live on the brand's new website and a shop within Liberty that is, in his words, "working very nicely for us too." Helena Christensen closed the show after 42 top-range gowns walked the runway.

The Impression's Angela Baidoo reviewed the collection as "an aspirational kind of excess," scoring craftsmanship a perfect 10 and describing a floor-to-ceiling, plush-carpeted showspace designed to echo what private clients experience when they begin a bespoke journey with his atelier. She frames the theme as a study on the "ritual of dressing," arguing these are not simply clothes but the start of how a subset of ultra-wealthy clientele curate a personal archive, much as they invest in art collections.

Vogue reports that Quinn's clients attend his shows in person, wearing their own Quinn grand occasion-wear at six in the evening — a social spectacle Mower writes is not seen at any other London label. "I think to have the staying-power of building a brand, you have to be really saturated with what you do," Quinn told Vogue backstage. He is still only 35, with an atelier, couture salon and fabric print business in Peckham, and Vogue likens him to an Elie Saab of London.

The Impression suggests London is slowly building a reputation for modern occasion-wear, with Quinn fast becoming one of the city's most successful examples of building a business around dressing up. The review speculates his couture-like hand may lead him to Parisian shores before long, though nothing is confirmed. For now, the return to ready-to-wear and a new digital home open his world to customers who, as the review puts it, embrace excess as a virtue.