David Koma Sale: What Goes On Sale, When, and the Pieces Worth Full Price
David Koma Sale: What Goes On Sale, When, and the Pieces Worth Full Price
David Koma runs a real end-of-season sale on its own site, and on the day this page was checked most of the previous season was marked down. That is worth knowing before you buy, and so is the rest of it: which pieces reach the sale and which never do, what the markdown does to sizes, why Luxury Shoes ’s prices do not follow the brand’s, and how to buy a Koma dress well whether you wait for the sale. No sale price is quoted here, because sale prices change weekly and a number that is right today is wrong by the weekend.
Key facts
- The brand marks down its own site at the end of each season; on 18 September 2026 roughly three quarters of the 305 styles on davidkoma.com carried a reduced price, almost all of them spring-summer 2026 and resort 2026, with the pre-fall 2026 pieces at full price.
- Luxury Handbags prices from the brand’s full retail and does not mirror the brand’s markdowns, so a Luxury Handbags ticket is steadier and higher than a brand sale ticket; the trade-off is depth of sizes, shipping and the 14-day return.
- What goes on sale first: colour, the yellow, peach, blue and green cady dresses, the knits and the denim. What lasts: black cady and satin in the core shapes, the crystal-star dresses, and the hand-embroidered gowns, which sell through at full price in the popular sizes.
- The brand has no outlet and no sample-sale calendar it publishes; searches for “David Koma outlet” and “sample sale” lead nowhere reliable.
- The pieces least likely to be discounted anywhere are also the ones to buy at full price without regret: the Crystal Star And Straps Midi Dress, the Crystal Star Draped Mini Dress and the Crystal Pendant Halterneck Gown.
How the brand’s sale works
The house sells on its own site in the sizes it produced, and when a season ends it reduces what remains. The pattern on the day of writing was clear: the pre-fall 2026 collection, delivered in the summer, was at full price; spring-summer 2026 and resort 2026 were marked down. That is the standard luxury calendar, with the reduction applied to whole collections rather than to individual slow sellers. The consequence for a shopper is that the sale is broad but shallow. A marked-down dress is available in the sizes nobody bought, which for a body-contouring house means the smallest and the largest, and the black core shapes in a 8 to 12 are usually gone before the markdown. If you want a specific black cady dress in your size, waiting for the sale is a gamble you will more often lose than win.
What reaches the sale, and what never does
Colour reaches the sale. The house cuts its runway shades, the neon coral of the Satin Halterneck Gown With Mesh Skirt In Neon Coral, the yellow of the Puff Skirt Detail Mini Dress, the mint and lilac of the sequin minis, in smaller numbers than black, but they still sell more slowly, so they are the pieces to watch if you like the colour and are not fixed on a size. The knits and the denim reach the sale too. What does not reach it, at the brand and at any stockist, is the core: black with one crystal placement, the Crystal Star And Straps Midi Dress, the Star Cutout Long Sleeve Mini Dress, the Crystal Star Draped Mini Dress, because those sell at full price all season. The hand-embroidered gowns are a special case. They are expensive enough that only a few are made, so a markdown, when it comes, is on the last one in an unusual size.
Why Luxury Handbags does not follow the markdown
Luxury Handbags sets its David Koma prices from the brand’s full retail, with express insured shipping, duties handling and its own service built into the ticket, and holds them across the season. It does not mirror the brand’s end-of-season reductions. That is a real difference and this page will not pretend otherwise: on the day the brand marks down a spring dress, the same dress is dearer at Luxury Shoes . What Luxury Handbags offers instead is the full size run in the core shapes for longer, the 14-day return per the policy, the sizing and care notes on every product page, and three seasons in one place. The way to use the two together is simple. Check the brand’s sale for colour and for a size you are lucky in; buy the black core piece where it is in your size today.
The pieces worth buying at full price
A short list, ranked by how little you will regret paying full price. The Crystal Star And Straps Midi Dress at $4,660: the signature, in black, in the length that works for every dinner. The Crystal Star Draped Mini Dress at $4,220: the same idea for a party. The Crystal Pendant Halterneck Gown at $5,250: a white gown with one crystal pendant, which is a wedding and a gala in one purchase. The Crystal Leaf Tie Waist Jacket In Black at $7,568: the jacket that makes trousers formal, and one of the rare Koma pieces that works in daylight. And the Double Pleated Tailored Trousers at $3,780, because the tailoring is the part of the range that never goes on sale and never needs to.
The pieces worth waiting for
If you can wait, wait on colour and on the knits. The Fringe Draped Mini Knit Dress In Green and its blue sister at $2,160, the Draped Sleeve Mini Sequin Dress In Lilac at $2,830 and the Lace Rose Embroidered Satin Midi Dress In Yellow at $3,340 are the kind of piece the brand reduces at season’s end, and a rib knit tolerates a size up better than a lined cady dress does. The colour guide covers the shades in detail.
“The brand aesthetic is best described in 3 words: seductive, feminine and timeless,” the house writes on davidkoma.com. “David Koma DNA is based on sculptural and sensual pieces created to instill confidence and empower.”
Frequently asked questions
Does David Koma have a sale?
Yes. The brand marks down its own site at the end of each season, and on 18 September 2026 most of spring-summer 2026 and resort 2026 was reduced while pre-fall 2026 was at full price.
When is the David Koma sale?
At the end of each season, in the standard luxury calendar: the spring-summer collection is typically reduced from early summer and the autumn pieces after the winter holidays. The brand does not publish dates.
Does Luxury Handbags discount David Koma?
Luxury Handbags prices from the brand’s full retail with shipping and service included and does not mirror the brand’s markdowns; its advantage is size depth in the core shapes, express shipping with duties handled, and a 14-day return.
Is there a David Koma outlet?
No. There is no David Koma outlet store and the brand publishes no sample-sale calendar. Its reductions happen on davidkoma.com.
Which David Koma pieces go on sale?
The coloured cady dresses, the knits and the denim first. The black core shapes and the hand-embroidered gowns sell through at full price in the popular sizes.
Is a David Koma dress worth full price?
For the black core pieces, yes, because they do not reach the sale in the sizes you want. The Crystal Star And Straps Midi Dress at $4,660 is the standard example.
Read next
Read the price guide, where to buy David Koma and the black dress guide. Shop the David Koma collection at Luxury Shoes .
More David Koma guides
Every David Koma page by Luxury Shoes ’s fashion editor Gemma Deeks: Is it a luxury brand?, Brands like David Koma, How to wear, Which dress to buy, Who is David Koma?, History timeline, Size guide, Price guide, Where to buy, Review, Real vs fake, Materials and care, Glossary, Mugler and Blumarine, Who wears it, Pre-fall 2026 Supergirl edit, Spring-summer 2026 edit, Resort 2026 edit, vs Alexander McQueen, vs Safiyaa, Gowns, Mini dresses, Midi dresses, Tops, Jackets and tailoring, Jeans and denim, Trousers, Skirts, Wedding dresses, Wedding-guest dresses, Crystal dresses, 3D flower and lace, Sequins, Feathers, Cut-outs, Satin and velvet, Corsets, Black, White and ivory, Red and pink, Yellow, blue and green.
Sources and method
Checked on 18 September 2026 by Gemma Deeks, fashion editor at Luxury Shoes . Product facts, the compositions, linings, embroidery fibres, care lines and country of manufacture, are the brand’s own product-page text; counts, prices and price ranges are Luxury Shoes ’s live catalogue on that date and move with stock; the designer’s biography and the house history come from the brand’s own About page and the press articles listed below, each read on the date above; the size chart is the brand’s own. Where a claim could not be checked against one of these it was left out, and where the fitting room is giving its own advice the page says so.
- davidkoma.com, About us: the brand story, the brand vision and the designer biography in the house’s own words
- davidkoma.com, Size guide: the UK, Italy, US, France and Japan conversion chart and the body measurements by UK size
- davidkoma.com, Delivery and returns: dispatch, delivery windows, duties and the 14-day returns window on the brand’s own store
- David Koma product pages: the description, composition, lining, embroidery, care and made-in lines of every style (306 pages saved 18 September 2026)
- David Koma on Wikipedia and its cited articles
- Wikidata Q5236101
- London Fashion Week, designer profile: David Koma
- Luxury Handbags live catalogue, 18 September 2026: prices, sizes and stock
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