Two Generations, One Aesthetic: Inside Kate and Lila Moss’s Burberry Moment at LFW
If there is one truth universally acknowledged in the world of fashion, it is this: wherever Kate Moss appears, the room rearranges itself around her. And on a luminous Monday at Old Billingsgate — that grand Victorian riverfront hall that once traded in fish and now traffics in culture — Moss arrived not alone, but flanked by her daughter, Lila, in what can only be described as the season’s most captivating mother-daughter moment. The occasion? Burberry’s Winter 2026 show during London Fashion Week, a presentation that felt, with these two in attendance, like a dynasty reaffirming its reign.
Kate, ever the architect of effortless cool, arrived in a masterclass of monochrome dressing. She layered her Mid-Length Kensington trench — a Burberry staple that feels simultaneously timeless and urgent — over what appeared to be a black satin slip dress, that most mercurial of garments, one that whispers of old Hollywood glamour while remaining utterly modern. The all-black composition was not merely a wardrobe choice; it was a statement about restraint as the ultimate form of confidence. A black trench coat, in lesser hands, is practical outerwear. On Moss, it becomes occasionwear, evening armour, a second skin.
Her accessories, drawn seemingly from the deep archive of her own legendary wardrobe, included long pendant earrings and a double-chain silver necklace — jewellery that felt inherited rather than purchased, storied rather than styled. At her feet: the Manolo Blahnik BB 90 pumps in black mesh, a pointed-toe silhouette set on a three-and-a-half-inch heel, low-cut at the vamp to reveal just enough. It is the kind of shoe that does not demand attention — it simply commands it.
Lila, the daughter who carries her mother’s bone structure with an ease that must feel like both a gift and a conversation, stepped into Old Billingsgate wearing a look from Burberry’s Spring 2026 collection that announced her as a presence entirely her own. The centrepiece was a cream structured coat, woven for texture and grounded by military-inspired epaulettes and a singular black button closure at a straight-cut neckline. The contrast of cream and black, of softness and rigidity, felt very much in keeping with the house’s current vocabulary.
For footwear, Lila departed from her mother’s classic restraint and chose Burberry’s python-print leather Dame High pumps from the most recent season — retailing at $895 and crafted in Italy with the house’s signature attention to craft. The cream and black python print mirrored the palette of her coat with an almost architectural precision. Set on the same three-and-a-half-inch stiletto heel as her mother’s Manolos, tapering to an elongated pointed toe and finished with a quilted insole and Burberry Check heel cushion, the shoes were simultaneously indulgent and considered.
The wider front row was equally luminous. Industry stars Myha’la and Marisa Abela arrived trailing the energy of television’s most talked-about drama. PinkPantheress brought her particular brand of quiet magnetism. Jodie Turner-Smith turned heads with the inevitability of someone who always does. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Olivia Dean, and Stellan Skarsgård rounded out a guest list that felt less like a celebrity roll call and more like a curated gathering of the culturally essential.
But it was the Mosses — mother and daughter, icon and heir — who gave the evening its deepest resonance. Fashion, at its most potent, is not merely about clothes. It is about lineage, about the stories we carry in the way we dress. At Burberry’s Winter 2026 show, two generations of that story arrived in perfect, pointed-toe step.
