H&M x Stella McCartney returns: Everything to know about the 2026 drop

Twenty years after their first partnership with designer Stella McCartney, fashion retailer H&M is all set to launch their second collaboration (on May 7) with the luxury label from the UK. It blends current signature styles such as oversized shirts, sweeping trenches and sharp tailoring with “playful iconic hits from McCartney’s early archive”, including bejewelled prints and slogan tops. 

Ann-Sofie Johansson, head of design, womenswear and creative advisor, H&M, calls McCartney a “rule breaker”. “She was H&M’s second ever designer collaboration, after Karl Lagerfeld. Stella is not afraid to challenge the conventions of the industry and to present an inspiring and hopeful vision of how to do things differently. That is what attracted us to her 20 years ago: we felt she had vigour and energy and ideas for how to disrupt the industry, especially when it came to materials. And recently, we decided that we wanted to champion that again, and keep those discussions going, hence this collection,” says Ann-Sofie, who has collaborated closely with renowned brands such as Balmain, Rabanne, Moschino, and Mugler.