The Ultimate Calendar to Luxury Events in 2026

Homo Faber 2026 returns to Venice from September 1 to 30 at Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore. Directed by Es Devlin, An Island of Light brings together master artisans from more than 70 countries through 15 installations, live demonstrations and workshops, while the program continues across Venice and into the kitchen at A Glasshouse Restaurant.

The LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers returns to the Fondation Louis Vuitton for its 13th edition, bringing nine emerging designers before a jury of leading creative directors from across the LVMH Maisons. Selected from more than 2,400 applicants, the finalists compete for the LVMH Prize, Karl Lagerfeld Prize and Savoir Faire Prize, with financial support and a year of mentorship from LVMH teams. The 2026 jury includes Jonathan Anderson, Sarah Burton, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, Stella McCartney, Camille Miceli, Nigo, Phoebe Philo, Michael Rider and Pharrell Williams.

Longchamp is set to launch its first Art Festival in Paris from September 4 to 6, 2026, with a free three-day programme at Galerie Joseph, bringing together nearly 30 international artists across visual art, dance, music, performance and digital work.

Developed by Longchamp Artistic Director Sophie Delafontaine with performing arts curator Olivier Bassuet, Longchamp Art Festival explores movement through the body, gesture, sound, light and material. The program includes works by Xavier Veilhan, Elias Crespin, Fabienne Verdier and Carlos Cruz-Diez, alongside a younger generation of artists including Valentin Guillon and Caroline Hélain, whose work also informed Longchamp’s Winter 2026 collection.

Live performances and conversations run throughout the weekend, with appearances by former Paris Opera étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot, dancer and actress Marion Barbeau, pianist and composer Koki Nakano, singer Célia Kameni and the We Are One Gospel collective.

Bvlgari Kaleidos Shanghai brings the Roman Maison’s High Jewelry and heritage to the Power Station of Art, where Chinese philosophy and contemporary art reshape its story of color. Running through October 31, 2026, Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts also extends to Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai with art, photography and a limited-edition Bvlgari Dolci collection.

The 78th Emmy Awards begin with two nights celebrating television’s artistic and technical achievements. Formerly known as the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the ceremonies recognize work across acting, costume, cinematography, production design, animation, music, makeup, and other creative categories.

The two-night celebration brings nominees, television stars, and industry figures to the Peacock Theater before the main Emmy Awards ceremony on September 14.

The first two nights will be edited together and broadcast on September 12 as The 78th Emmy Awards (Creative Arts), two days before the main ceremony.

Forbes Italia Unconventional Excellence 2026 Awards mark the third edition of the magazine’s annual Awards evening in Venice, held in parallel with the Venice International Film Festival. Launched in 2024, Unconventional Excellence recognizes personalities and projects that have challenged convention across cinema, culture, sport and business. After the ceremony, the evening continues with a private dinner and a musical performance for the honorees and guests.

Irish Designer and Sculptor Joseph Walsh is known for working with wood on an extraordinary scale, bending and carving timber into sweeping sculptural forms. This September, he brings his monumental outdoor sculptures to Europe for the first time with Arcanum Formae at Hôtel de Sully.

Created specifically for the 17th-century hôtel particulier, the Exhibition runs from the Orangerie into the gardens. Walsh works with rare and century-old trees, allowing the grain, age, and natural curves of the timber to shape each piece. Arcanum Formae introduces new works created for Paris, including Walsh's first monumental outdoor sculptures presented in Europe.

Opening during Paris Design Week 2026, the Arcanum Formae Exhibition remains at Hôtel de Sully through October 25, 2026, covering Art Basel Paris 2026 as well.

Lake Como Design Festival 2026 returns for its eighth edition from September 12 to 20, opening villas, design archives, ateliers and architectural landmarks across Como and the lake. This year's theme, Confine, runs through nine days of exhibitions, installations, talks and studio visits, with Villa del Grumello and Villa Saporiti among the principal venues.

The Premio Maestri d’Eccellenza returns for its fourth edition, celebrating Italian craftsmanship through an initiative by LVMH Métiers d’Excellence, Confartigianato Imprese and Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, with Fondazione Bvlgari as the 2026 partner. Nine finalists compete across three categories, recognizing established artisans, emerging talent, and innovation in Italian craftsmanship. The 2026 winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at the Bvlgari Hotel Roma on September 14.

The Petit Palais presents Eva Gonzalès: A Free-Spirited Artist from September 15, 2026, to January 24, 2027, with the first major retrospective devoted to the French painter Eva Gonzalès.

A contemporary of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Gonzalès was the only formal pupil of Édouard Manet, yet her work has never previously been the subject of a major retrospective in France or internationally. The exhibition brings together almost 100 paintings, pastels and prints, tracing the development of an artist who established her own voice within the Parisian art world of the late 19th century.

Organized in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where the exhibition will travel in February 2027, the retrospective also benefits from the support of the Musée d’Orsay.

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents Simone Fattal: Cities at the Bottom of a Lake from September 18, 2026, to January 24, 2027, with around 100 works spanning more than five decades of the Lebanese American artist’s career.

Paintings, ceramics, sculptures, collages and works on paper reveal the breadth of Fattal’s practice. Loans from museum and private collections. Her work is shaped by archaeology, mythology and the Mediterranean, with recurring references to ancient civilizations, epic narratives and landscapes marked by history and displacement.

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents Kerry James Marshall: The Histories from September 18, 2026, to January 24, 2027, marking the first exhibition in France devoted to one of the most important contemporary American painters.

Bringing together 70 works from major museum and private collections across Europe and North America, the exhibition spans more than four decades of Marshall’s practice and includes eight new paintings created specifically for the project. Known for placing Black figures at the center of large-scale compositions, Marshall draws on art history, everyday life and collective memory while questioning who has historically been represented within Western painting.

Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts in London in collaboration with Kunsthaus Zürich, The Histories gives collectors and contemporary art followers a rare opportunity to see significant works by Marshall together in Paris, including pieces rarely shown outside their permanent or private collections.

For two days in September, Cartier will give the public access to its Institut Joaillerie, the Paris training center dedicated to preserving and transmitting the Maison’s jewelry-making savoir-faire. Founded in 2002, the Institut trains Cartier craftspeople and works with institutions including the Haute École de Joaillerie and École Boulle to prepare the next generation of jewelers.

For the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, on September 19 and 20, Cartier has created a 90-minute visit bringing together almost every specialist involved in the jewelry creation process. The route also takes visitors to the jeweler’s bench for an introduction to the craft.

Housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier in Paris’s historic jewelry district, Cartier’s Institut Joaillerie is normally devoted to training rather than public visits. Reservations are mandatory for the two-day opening, with the exact address communicated to registered visitors.

The Rolex Switzerland Sail Grand Prix | Geneva brings SailGP’s F50 foiling catamarans back to Lake Geneva after the championship’s Swiss debut there in 2025. For 2026, 13 international teams are expected to race, with the boats capable of approaching 100 km/h. Racing is currently scheduled from 3:30 PM to 5 PM on Saturday and Sunday, with three races planned each day, weather permitting.

The Musée Bourdelle presents L’étoffe de l’artiste. De Rosa Bonheur à Sonia Delaunay from September 23, 2026, to January 24, 2027, examining how artists used clothing to construct their public image from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.

The exhibition pairs garments worn by artists including Gustav Klimt, Rosa Bonheur, Foujita, Sonia Delaunay and Camille Bernier with paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper. From studio smocks and workwear to carefully styled public appearances, clothing becomes part of the way artists defined their identity, challenged convention and presented themselves to the world.

The show also looks at artists who treated dress as an extension of their creative practice, including Sonia Delaunay, whose use of color and geometric pattern crossed between painting, textiles and fashion.

Presented at the Musée Bourdelle with support from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Musée d’Orsay, the exhibition places fashion inside a broader history of artistic self-presentation rather than treating clothing simply as costume.

Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana hosts its Milan Fashion Week Opening Gala Dinner at Palazzo Reale, bringing together the Italian fashion industry for one of the week's key invitation-only evenings. The Gala also celebrates the inauguration of the Dalí e la Moda Exhibition, which opens at the museum alongside Fashion Week.

Palazzo Reale explores Salvador Dalí's lifelong relationship with fashion through more than 200 works, from paintings, drawings and photographs to garments, jewelry, films and archival pieces. Dalí e la Moda traces his collaborations with Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior and Paco Rabanne, revealing how clothing, accessories and the body became part of his Surrealist universe.

The Exhibition also turns to Gala Dalí, his wife and muse, with pieces from her personal wardrobe presented publicly in Italy for the first time. Curated by Montse Aguer, Judith Clark and Laura Bartolomé Roviras.

10 Corso Como presents the first Italian Exhibition dedicated to Dutch Fashion Artists Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, bringing together 20 Haute Couture looks spanning more than three decades of Viktor&Rolf. Curated by Alessio de Navasques, Spectrum traces the recurring forms, contrasts and visual codes that connect the duo's work across fashion, art and performance.