The best of Paris Fashion Week A/W 2026: live from the Wallpaper* editors

Paris Fashion Week marks the culmination of fashion month, though thanks to a busy schedule, several of its biggest shows are yet to come. Here, the Wallpaper* editors report live from the French capital

Paris might mark the final stop of fashion month, but such is the weighting of the season that several of its biggest shows are yet to come (Paris Fashion Week has a crammed nine-day-long schedule, nearly double the length of its counterparts in New York, London and Milan). Among them: Dior, which will begin proceedings on Tuesday afternoon (3 March 2026) with Jonathan Anderson’s sophomore womenswear show for the house, and Chanel, where Matthieu Blazy will present his own second act (both showed acclaimed collections during haute couture week in January). Others who are relatively new in their tenures include Michael Rider at Celine (the American designer will show on March 7), Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier (March 8), and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez at Loewe (March 6).

There will also be a swansong: Belgian designer Pieter Mulier will present his final collection at Alaïa, the culmination of a five-year tenure defined by commercial expansion and critical success, honing a vision of what he calls ‘modern beauty’. Having taken over from Azzedine Alaïa after the couturier’s death, his next move is the Italian fashion house Versace, where he succeeds Dario Vitale, who only lasted a single season.

There is, of course, plenty to look out for besides. Saint Laurent will hold its usual Tuesday evening show (3 March 2026) in what is sure to continue Anthony Vaccarello’s veneration of silhouette and form; Issey Miyake will look to continue its brilliant run of shows under design lead Satoshi Kondo (March 6); and shows from Miu Miu and Louis Vuitton will close out fashion month on Tuesday (March 10). There will also be the usual slew of avant-garde labels, from Paris and beyond: Rick Owens, Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe and Matières Fécales (among others), will all show collections filled with ideas across the course of the week.

Here, the Wallpaper* editors on the ground will be offering a real-time look at standout moments of Paris Fashion Week A/W 2026 – from behind-the-scenes glimpses to access to the shows, presentations and parties. Stay tuned.

Wallpaper* Fashion Features Editor Jack Moss
Jack Moss

Jack Moss is Wallpaper’s Fashion & Beauty Features Director, reporting for the magazine’s digital and print editions – from international runway shows to profiling the style world’s leading figures.

Jason Hughes
Jason Hughes

Jason Hughes is Wallpaper’s Fashion & Creative Director, overseeing all style content – from fashion and beauty to watches and jewellery – as well as leading the visual direction of the magazine.

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India Birgitta Jarvis

India is a writer and editor based in London, specialising in fashion, beauty, arts, interiors and culture. She is a regular Wallpaper* contributor.

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The Dior invite is a pair of miniature Tuileries chairs

Dior A/W 2026 runway show invitation chair Jonathan Anderson

The Dior A/W 2026 show invite, posted on Jonathan Anderson’s Instagram this week

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Despite a handful of smaller independent labels showing yesterday, the Dior show this afternoon – taking place in the historic Tuileries Gardens – marks the definitive start of Paris Fashion Week. It is a moment made all the bigger by the creative director at its helm: the voraciously creative Jonathan Anderson, who will show his sophomore womenswear ready-to-wear collection for the house. After a brilliant couture collection this past January, which referenced the curves of Dame Magdalene Odundo’s ceramics and a posy of cyclamen gifted to him by former Dior creative director John Galliano, expectations are high.

The show invite for this season is an appealing pair of miniature green outdoor chairs, a reproduction of those which are scattered about the Tuileries Gardens – a longtime gathering spot for Parisian locals and tourists alike. ‘I will always feel like a tourist in Paris,’ he told designer and podcaster Bella Freud in a conversation which aired before the show’s start. ‘But sometimes being a tourist is quite good, because you see the thing, you kind of edit.’ Jack Moss

A first look at the Dior show set

Dior A/W 2026 runway set at Paris Fashion Week

The A/W 2026 Dior show set

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‘A walk through the park becomes a performance,’ said Jonathan Anderson of his A/W 2026 collection for Dior, which was staged in Paris’ Tuileries Garden this afternoon. The show set, built over one of the gardens’ ornamental lily ponds, was a contemporary reimagining of the tree-lined Grande Allée, a traditional site of promenade and gathering. Jack Moss

Jonathan Anderson’s latest Dior show was a walk in the park

Dior A/W 2026 by Jonathan Anderson runway show at Paris Fashion Week

Dior’s A/W 2026 show, which took place today (3 March 2026) at Paris’ Tuileries Gardens

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The Tuileries Gardens in Paris, first constructed by Catherine de’ Medici in 1564 and later renovated in 1664 by Louis XIV in its formal French style, has long proved fertile ground for the wandering flâneur seeking artistic inspiration and enlightenment – from Édouard Manet to Oscar Wilde; Claude Debussy to Victor Hugo.

And this afternoon, Jonathan Anderson – the Northern Irish designer and creative director of Dior – was the latest creative mind to be seduced by the gardens’ charms, using the Tuileries to stage his A/W 2026 womenswear collection for the Parisian powerhouse. In bright spring sunshine, the show set had been erected around one of the park’s lily-pad strewn ponds (here, those water-lilies were clever imitations); across its centre ran a contemporary imagining of the Tuileries’ tree-lined Grand Allée, a site of promenade since the gardens opened to the public in 1667.

Continue reading our review of Dior A/W 2026 here.

Saint Laurent channels 1970s cinema

Saint Laurent A/W 2026 womenswear show at Paris Fashion Week

Saint Laurent A/W 2026

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‘Structure and construction’ were the focus of Anthony Vaccarello’s latest collection for Saint Laurent, presented last night, which played out amid a ‘streamlined dream of modernist glass, wood and leather’ with an enormous bust – a recreation of one found in Yves Saint Laurent’s own Paris apartment – at its centre.

The collection itself had an equally cinematic sensibility, where ‘intimacy and vulnerability’ were captured in a use of lace, coated in silicone to hold its structure, alongside latex macs, slips and giant chubby ‘fur’ coats. On the mood board? Actress Romy Schneider in the 1971 movie Max et les Ferrailleurs, who Vaccarello called this season’s protagonist.

The show began, though, with a stream of tuxedos – riffs on ‘Le Smoking’, arguably Yves Saint Laurent’s most enduring design, which turns 60 this year. In single and double-breasted iterations, Vaccarello said that their sloped-shoulder construction and feeling of fluidity were a rejection of the women’s suit as a ’clichéd projection of power’ but a ‘liberating sense of ease’. His version of ‘Le Smoking’ in its purest form closed the show, its ‘attitude more insouciant shrug than swagger,’ as Vaccarello described. Jack Moss

Saints Laurent marble bust from show set at Paris Fashion Week

The bust at the centre of the Saint Laurent show set, recreating one owned by house founder Yves Saint Laurent

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At Courrèges, Nicolas Di Felice muses on time as he marks five years at the French house

Courreges A/W 2026 runway show at Paris Fashion Week

Backstage at Courrèges A/W 2026

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The invitation to Nicolas Di Felice’s latest show for Courrèges was an alarm clock, its hands set to seconds before 10:30am, the time that the A/W 2026 presentation began this morning. Indeed, the passing of time was on the Belgian designer’s mind this season: the show marked five years since he began his tenure at Courrèges, during which he has transformed the fading French house with sleek and sensual riffs on André Courrèges’ 1960s Space Age designs that, despite intriguing experimentations in fabric and form, are designed for the everyday. Such was the case here: amid a sparse reimagining of a Parisian street, he created a wardrobe to take the Courrèges woman from dawn to dusk, and back again (she likes to party). Cue signature vinyl sets and cut-out bodysuits, raised-collar jackets and skirts with protruding sculptural waistlines, as well as more playful details, like leather handbags moulded to appear as if their contents were poking through, and dresses made from organza versions of Paris metro billets. It ended with a finale in which every look was recreated in white. ‘It was André Courrèges’ favourite colour,’ Di Felice said backstage. ‘To him, it expressed lightness, purity.’ Jack Moss

The invite to Pieter Mulier’s final Alaïa show is a make-you-own leather bodice

Alaia A/W 2026 leather bodice show invitation

The invitations for Pieter Mulier’s final Alaïa show, posted on his Instagram today

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This evening at 9pm Paris time, Belgian designer Pieter Mulier will show his final collection for Alaïa – a swansong which will mark the culmination of a five-year tenure at the house, where he succeeded the namesake couturier, Azzedine Alaïa. It will no doubt be this evening’s most sought-after ticket: Mulier has honed a vision of ‘modern beauty’ which has resulted in commercial expansion and critical acclaim (as well as numerous memorable red-carpet moments). So it is fitting that the invitation is a keepsake: the pieces for a leather bodice, delivered to attendees in a box with instructions on how to put it together. ‘Swan song... only love,’ Mulier captioned a picture of the constructed invites on Instagram today. His next move? Creative director of Versace, taking over from Dario Vitale. Jack Moss

Julian Klausner channels an eclectic beauty at Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten A/W 2026 runway show Julian Klausner

Dries Van Noten A/W 2026

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A sequel of sorts to his menswear show in January, Julian Klausner channelled a mood of eclectic beauty at Dries Van Noten this season with an A/W 2026 collection which featured a heady amalgam of colour, print, jacquard and embellishment. Shown at Paris’ Lycée Carnot, the kaleidoscopic looks were reflected off a vast mirror at the end of the runway.

Meanwhile, a coming-of-age spirit emerged in garments evocative of school and college uniforms, from duffle coats and piped-edge blazers to varsity jackets. Vivid piled-up knitwear and denim added to the spontaneous, freewheeling mood. Jack Moss

The show set at Acne Studios was a series of colourful rooms

Acne Studios A/W 2026 runway show set at Paris Fashion Week

The Acne Studios A/W 2026 show set

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This afternoon, Acne Studios transformed the historic nave of Le Collège des Bernardins with a series of intersecting rooms, each with different colour walls, carpets and archways, recalling classic Parisian salons and apartments. The illusion was best when you looked down the runway to see the various rooms at once – a surreal, hall-of-mirrors effect which backdropped a typically vivid collection from the brand, who will celebrate this evening with a performance from current campaign star Robyn at a party titled ‘Robyn and Friends’. Jack Moss

Acne Studios A/W 2026 runway show set at Paris Fashion Week

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Pieter Mulier holds his swansong show at Alaïa

Watched on by fellow designers Raf Simons and Matthieu Blazy, last night in Paris, Pieter Mulier presented his final collection for Alaïa at the former Fondation Cartier (it was preceded by an exhibition of works by Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima, capturing the entire Alaïa atelier and team). It would mark the culmination of a critically acclaimed five-year tenure, which saw him succeed house founder Azzedine Alaïa, following the couturier’s death in 2017 (Mulier started four years later, in 2021, after a stewardship by an in-house team).

Encapsulating the idea of ‘modern beauty’ which has characterised his time at the house, the A/W 2026 collection was defined by a feeling of reduction: simple, body-contouring dresses met trapeze-shaped outerwear, while peplums, ruffles and hoods – albeit in Mulier’s graphic, contemporary style – evoked house codes. The intimate show featured a line-up of house muses, from Mona Tougaard to Alex Consani, and was rounded out by a rousing standing ovation. Mulier’s next move? Creative director of Italian powerhouse Versace, where he takes over from Dario Vitale.

‘[It is] not my Alaïa, [but] our Alaïa,’ said Mulier. ‘I am proud that I am a part of the history of this house – and this house will be a part of me, forever.’ Jack Moss

A closer look at Jonathan Anderson’s latest Dior collection

Earlier this week, Jonathan Anderson showed his sophomore womenswear ready-to-wear collection for Dior in Paris’ Tuileries Garden. The gardens – constructed by Catherine de’ Medici in 1564 and later renovated in 1664 by Louis XIV before becoming a public park – also inspired a collection which was about ‘seeing and being seen... [where] a walk in the park becomes a performance’. Cue riffs on Belle Époque silhouettes, alongside a rich amalgam of fresh, nature-inspired flourishes – from lily-pad footwear and fronds of feathers to floral jacquard and appliqué. Wallpaper* returned to the water-lily strewn showspace today for a closer look at the collection – swipe through above to see what we found. Jack Moss

READ: Jonathan Anderson’s latest Dior show was a walk in the park

Rabanne gets ‘a little louche’

Rabanne A/W 2026 runway show

Rabanne A/W 2026

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Julien Dossena was in full character-development mode for Rabanne this season, and the character in question is one of insalubrious repute, or, as the brand puts it: ‘a little louche’. A take on modernist femininity told through blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpses of slip through unbuttoned blouse, a hint of lace underneath a more conservative skirt, and pussybows left suggestively undone. Countered with vintage-inspired T-bar heels, tea-dress florals, and clashing knitwear, the effect was, to quote Dossena, ‘slightly shady, somewhat unknowable, but definitely confident and in control’. India Jarvis

Rick Owens’ show of strength

Rick Owens A/W 2026 runway show at Paris Fashion Week

Rick Owens A/W 2026

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Picking up where his menswear collection of the same name left off, ‘Tower’ once again saw Rick Owens play with ideas of strength and protection, and a high-performance fibre called kevlar which is purportedly five-times stronger than steel. Flight jackets and mantles were made using heavy-duty fabrics – demonstrating Owens’ ongoing commitment to responsibly sourced materials such as ZDHC-certified washed denim and boiled wool traceable all the way back to its source. Marlene Dietrich was the season’s muse, her spirit translated through a ‘steeliness’ and ‘grit’, which will be immediately familiar to the brand’s disciples. India Jarvis

Loewe A/W 2026 was ‘an expression of joy’

Loewe A/W 2026 runway

Loewe A/W 2026 runway

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Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s sophomore collection for Loewe – featuring menswear on the runway for the first time – was an exercise in ‘joy, experimentation and play,’ the American designers said. Cue blow-up outerwear, supersized parkas and colourful latex slip dresses, playing out amid a show set populated by Cosima von Bonin’s soft-toy sculptures of clams, octopi and dogs. ‘For us, the act of making is, at its core, an expression of joy – an intellectual, process-driven pursuit charged with playfulness,’ they said.

It resulted in a collection laden with optimism and fun: pastel shearling, gradient-trimmed ‘in the same manner as poodle grooming’, bouclé coats made from looped lacquered leather, and allusions to inflatables. ‘It is the idea of play as rigorous experimentation and problem-solving, moving between instinct and experience,’ they continued. ‘Between a devotion to craft and its endless opportunities for innovation… propelled by boundless curiosity.’ Jack Moss

Loewe A/W 2026 runway

Loewe A/W 2026 runway

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An assertion of resilience at Givenchy A/W 2026

Givenchy A/W 2026 runway

Givenchy A/W 2026 runway

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‘How can we put ourselves back together in the world we’re living in’ is a question which feels particularly potent this fashion month, and one which Sarah Burton placed front and centre of her third Givenchy show. The answer, Burton suggests, is through an assertion of resilience, and an unerring celebration of the best of what humanity has to offer, namely its creativity.

This was hinted at through luscious tailoring bolstered by collars and headpieces which could have come straight from a Flemish Old Master, the simplest of velvet dresses cut with great thigh-high slits, and leather accents seen across pockets and neck ties. Clothes which speak absolutely to the ‘power of reflecting one’s own identity out into the world’. India Jarvis

Givenchy A/W 2026 runway

Givenchy A/W 2026 runway

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Hermès A/W 2026 unfolded in a moss-strewn ‘liminal realm’

Hermes A/W 2026 runway show at Paris Fashion Week

Hermès A/W 2026

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Nadège Vanhée said her A/W 2026 womenswear collection for Hermès was about conjuring a ‘liminal realm’, between day and evening, earth and space. Setting the scene was a transportative showspace erected in Paris’ Garde Républicaine: lit by two glowing orbs (through which models would later emerge), it was entirely covered in a dewy layer of moss and vegetation, while a sleek runway hovered and wove its way across the surface.

It lent the collection a sleek, vaguely futuristic feel – albeit one rooted in the superlative acts of traditional craft that have long defined the Parisian house. There were streamlined, body-contouring jackets and bodysuits in leather, technical knit sweaters, and quilted silks adorned with prints of cloud-strewn skies. Visible zips were a recurring motif; serving for both function and adornment, they sliced across the chest or ran down the length of dresses.

Other pieces riffed on equestrian attire – the north star of the house, which began by creating equestrian attire in 1837 – like sleek ‘cycling’ shorts that were actually cut-away jodphurs, or neat, double-breasted blazers evoking dressage competition jackets. Jack Moss

Issey Miyake let clothes speak for themselves

Issey Miyake A/W 2026 runway

Issey Miyake A/W 2026

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Satoshi Kondo’s offering yesterday for Issey Miyake was a treatise on a familiar tension for a designer: that of ‘creating’ vs ‘allowing’. How to navigate ‘the relationship between deliberate intervention in design and the absence of it, the unfilled space,’ or, in other words, the artists’ hand and its necessary sympathy with the inherent beauty of material.

The resulting collection, summarily titled ‘Creating, Allowing’ but divided into nine different chapters, saw fabrics cut into typically avant-garde shapes – large enough that their unique characteristics were evident and otherwise un-interfered with. These shapes made their impression on the negative space too, but the most important impact was made through the human frame, distilling ‘the notion of minimizing design intervention and leaving the form-making to the wearer’s own body’. India Jarvis

Michael Rider refines his vision at Celine

Celine A/W 2026 runway

Celine A/W 2026

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Presented this afternoon in a sunlit white space at Paris’ Institut de France – dotted with a series of modernist speakers – Michael Rider continued to hone his vision for Celine with a breezy A/W 2026 collection for men and women.

Building on the wardrobe of refined, uptown-inflected essentials he has established so far at the house, the collection also featured bolder flourishes – from vivid moments of colour to animal prints, metallic fabrics and giant sequins. Silk also featured, lending the collection an easy, fluid line, while accessories were typically desirable – from miniature accordion handbags to plimsols.

Marking his sophomore on-schedule Paris Fashion Week show, Rider joins a number of designers in the nascent stages of their tenure – earlier this week, Jonathan Anderson showed his second womenswear show for Dior; tomorrow, it will be the turn of Matthieu Blazy at Chanel. Jack Moss

Celine A/W 2026 set

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Victoria Beckham’s muse was Tamara de Lempicka

Last night, Victoria Beckham took us to the southernmost of Paris’s arrondissements, to present her A/W 2026 collection at Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, a residential complex which hosts around 6,000 of the French capital’s student population. The foundation was conceived in the 1920s – the same period in which Beckham’s seasonal muse, the painter Tamara de Lempicka was reaching her creative heights.

De Lempicka’s portraits of modern women through the Machine Age offer much in the way of inspiration, sartorially speaking. Her statuesque subjects wear marvellous folds of fabric, rendered through bold, geometric planes of colour, close to the face. Beckham played upon this geometry with a collection which focused heavily on tailoring, or ‘anatomy-enhancing suiting,’ with playful constructive details: extended pockets on tightly fitting trousers, or blazers with intriguingly wonky necklines.

Her palette was largely neutral, but with the occasional uniform-colour, khaki and Air Force blue, or turquoises and oranges taken straight from The Girl, and Portrait of Ira P (both 1930), respectively. The ‘sense of dimension’ and ‘optical depth’ integral to clothes which borrow from Art Deco was achieved through sheer crystal organza and ‘crinoline shell garments’, and that unmistakably Art Deco line was suggested through pattern cutting – a bomber-shaped jumper in leather with a thick wool turtle-neck, met the upper torso in a deep-V, and a one-shoulder velvet dress connected to its bubble skirt via a sloping, ovoid drop waist.

Beckham also introduced the Sloan bag, a top-handle design ‘crafted in aged leather and croc-embossed leather in rich heritage jewel tones, the bag is constructed with folded side gussets that reflect the light and create shadows in motion.’ India Jarvis

‘Comme day’ delivers some Paris Fashion Week highlights

Junya Watanabe A/W 2026

Junya Watanabe A/W 2026

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The Saturday of Paris Fashion Week is colloquially known as ‘Comme day’, not only because Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo shows her latest Comme des Garçons collection in the late afternoon, but also because Junya Watanabe and Noir Kei Ninomiya – two other labels in the Comme des Garçons roster – also present their collections, often in the same show space. It is a day considered by many to be a highlight of the month: few other designers have such a uniquely liberated approach to design as this trio, which remains defiantly avant-garde.

This season felt particularly strong, beginning with Junya Watanabe this morning, who presented a collection titled ‘The Art of Assemblage Couture’. A riotous collage of colourful fake fur, wigs, curtains and other detritus, silhouettes drew on mid-century haute couture – from opera coats to ballooning gowns – while the models served up a mini melodrama on the runway. Tossing garments over chairs and posing their way down the runway, faces streaked with run mascara, it was pure entertainment – a real contender for the show of Paris Fashion Week so far. Watanabe said it was driven by ‘pure creative instinct’, and the same could be said of Noir Kei Ninomiya, whose cage-like constructions were adorned with levitating flowers, while hair had been cleverly constructed into the forms of leaping big cats and bears.

Comme des Garcons A/W 2026

Comme des Garcons A/W 2026

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Meanwhile at Comme des Garçons, the closing act of the day, Kawakubo delivered a series of typically provocative forms – from those draped in tulle to reveal the strange protrusions of pillow-like padding beneath, to intriguing pile-ups of ruffles and tassels. Save for an interlude in candy pink, the show was near-entirely in black. Her explanation was simple: ‘I have come to realise that, after all, black is the colour for me,’ she said in a typically sage-like statement issued to the press. ‘It’s just the strongest, the best for creation, and the colour that embodies the rebellious spirit. And has the biggest meaning: the universe and the black hole.’ Jack Moss

Balenciaga's ‘Euphoria’ collaboration was a search for ‘the tension between darkness and light’

Balenciaga A/W 2026 runway show featuring screens with Euphoria

Balenciaga A/W 2026 runway show featuring screens playing Euphoria

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Last night Pierpaolo Piccioli presented ‘ClairObscur’, his second collection for Balenciaga, and a collaboration with Sam Levinson, creator of HBO Original’s multi award-winning teen drama Euphoria.

The collaboration played out across screens at a show space on Avenue Champs-Elysées, which featured preview clips from the series’ third season, which will air to the public in mid-April. In attendance for the A/W 2026 event were stars from HBO’s catalogue, including Rachel Sennott (I Love LA) and Hudson Williams (Heated Rivalry). ‘The installation and experiential space represent a refraction and reflection of principles central to Levinson and Piccioli – of truth, compassion, affinity and above all humanity,’ a statement from Balenciaga detailed. India Jarvis

Continue reading: Balenciaga taps Euphoria’s Sam Levinson for A/W 2026

Duran Lantink presents a smoke show at Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier A/W 2026 runway

Jean Paul Gaultier A/W 2026 runway

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Detective, cowboy, raver: Duran Lantink’s sophomore collection for Jean Paul Gaultier featured an eclectic ‘line-up of characters’ dressed in the Dutch designer’s surreal, sculptural silhouettes.

One figure on the moodboard was Marlene Dietrich, who the designer said was a master in subverting tropes: ‘dominant, sexy and graceful, the ultimate hybrid’. She inspired the tailored silhouettes which opened the show, while her face appeared on a dress installed with smoking dry ice – a nod to her signature habit.

‘It’s a spirit that suits the house of Gaultier, a place where the world is perpetually turned upside down,’ said Lantink via press notes. ‘Feminine and masculine, inside out, vintage and new, underwear as outerwear, technical and tailored all at once.’ Jack Moss

Jean Paul Gaultier A/W 2026 runway

Jean Paul Gaultier A/W 2026 runway

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Seán McGirr's latest Alexander McQueen show was a psychological drama

Alexander McQueen A/W 2026 runway

Alexander McQueen A/W 2026 runway

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Yesterday evening, Seán McGirr transported guests out to the west of the city and to the Paris Tennis Club, though any traces of its playing courts had been removed and transformed into a sleek, futuristic box, intersected by a series of semi-sheer curtains. The Irish designer said he had been thinking about the feeling of being on view: ‘We’re always on; always curating, consuming, performing and being watched,’ he said, a point hammered home by the invitation, a postcard of an eye glaring from beneath a mask. One inspiration point was the 1995 film Safe by Todd Haynes – the story of a wealthy Los Angeles housewife’s descent into health paranoia – channelled here in Valley of the Dolls hairdos and hints of the saccharine, from trapeze baby-doll dresses to lace and floral adornment (there were also romper shorts, bows and peplums – the latter a growing trend of the week). Contrast came in sharply-cut tailoring, ‘bumster’ trousers and chainmail, as well as masks, which segued from the bejewelled to the eerie. Jack Moss

Alexander McQueen A/W 2026 runway

Alexander McQueen A/W 2026 runway

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Laura and Deanna Fanning go birdwatching at Kiko Kostadinov

Kiko Kostadinov A/W 2026 runway show

Kiko Kostadinov A/W 2026

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This season at Kiko Kostadinov, designers Laura and Deanna Fanning began by asking: What can we see when we really pay attention to our surroundings? They gave the example of looking out of a window in a major city – Paris, London, Tokyo and Los Angeles were all name-checked – and seeing not only the urban sprawl, but also evidence of nature, whether fluttering herons, swans or parakeets. It led, they said, to a collection about the ‘observer and the observed’: garments came with numerous pockets for tools to support ‘the act of looking’, whether notebooks, pens or binoculars, while prints recalled greenery and undergrowth, as if for camouflage. Typically intriguing colour combinations – a signature of the pair – were taken from Cindy Sherman’s 1993 photo essay, ‘Fitcher’s Bird’, and jewellery also had an ornithological appeal (pendants were shaped like bird’s eggs). Completing the scene was an installation by American artist Oscar Tuazon featuring a series of white ‘nestboxes’, from which models appeared – an echo of the brand’s menswear show earlier this year. Jack Moss

Kiko Kostadinov A/W 2026 runway show

Kiko Kostadinov A/W 2026

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The Chanel show set is under construction

Chanel A/W 2026 set

Chanel A/W 2026 set

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A first look at the show set for Matthieu Blazy’s sophomore ready-to-wear collection for Chanel at Paris’ Grand Palais this evening – one of the week’s most fervently anticipated moments (his joy-filled debut last October was perhaps S/S 2026’s standout show). Unfolding across a glittering floor, the space is populated by a series of enormous primary-coloured cranes – part-Toy Town, part (chic) construction site. Stay tuned for our thoughts from the show.

At Chanel, Matthieu Blazy does it again

Chanel A/W 2026 runway show

Chanel A/W 2026

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This evening in Paris, Matthieu Blazy held his sophomore ready-to-wear show for Chanel, presenting a liberated, colour-soaked collection that built on his joyful debut last October. ‘I just wanted to have fun,’ he said at the time.

Taking place at the Grand Palais, which had been installed with a series of enormous primary-coloured cranes and a glittering floor, the A/W 2026 collection seemed to channel the joy of dance. Lady Gaga’s Just Dance rang out on the soundtrack, overlaid with clips from ‘Billy Elliot’, while the collection spanned easy, dropped-waist dresses, jersey gowns and roomy blazers (each a nod to house founder Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel). Meanwhile a series of gleaming, colour-saturated looks were matched with slicked-back metallic hair.

Elsewhere, typically vivid embellishment – a longtime Blazy signature – added layer upon layer of richness, from floral appliqué and fronds of feathers to chequered chainmail and high-shine accessories. Jack Moss

Matthieu Blazy’s sophomore Chanel collection is made for ‘women to be unapologetically who they are’

Chanel A/W 2026 runway show by Matthieu Blazy

Chanel A/W 2026

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Much of the idle chatter this Paris Fashion Week has revolved not around runway shows, nor the usual conjecture about which creative directors are in (or out). People aren’t even talking about last night’s parties, or how little sleep they’ve had.

Instead, the question is: have you been to the Chanel store on Rue Cambon yet? Or, the concession in Le Bon Marché? If you have, what did you buy? (And sometimes: do they still have my size?). Because it was there, on Thursday (5 March 2026), that the first arrivals from Matthieu Blazy’s debut collection, presented last October, began to hit shelves. Such has been the furore, Vogue Business and The New York Times have reported on the phenomenon (in the latter, one interviewee likened the mood on the shop floor to The Hunger Games); by Sunday, pieces were already turning up on the front row.

So, when it came to Blazy’s sophomore runway show for Chanel, presented at the Grand Palais yesterday evening (9 March), it was likely that the 1000 or so guests were already making their shopping lists (all the more so as a large number of the runway show’s seats were taken up by Very Important Customers – i.e. those who spend the most in store in a given year). And there was certainly plenty to desire here: a fashion pick-and-mix of gleaming metallic court shoes and sock-like two-tone boots; Chanel tweeds recut in the proportions of an oversized lumberjack shirt or in shimmering tinsel-like fabric; alongside the simplest of black jersey dresses, like the one that closed the show (jersey was one of the fabrics that Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel pioneered, favoured for its ease of line and lack of constriction).

Continue reading our review of the show here.

‘A new folklore’ at Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton A/W 2026 runway

Louis Vuitton A/W 2026 runway

(Image credit: Jack Moss)

Louis Vuitton’s A/W 2026 collection took place amid a show set by Severance production designer Jeremy Hindle, an abstracted natural landscape where rolling green hills had become sharp, sci-fi peaks. It set the scene for a collection which Nicolas Ghesquière said was a musing on nature: ‘mountains, forests, plains,’ and the clothing traditionally used to traverse them, reimagines in the designer’s idiosyncratic, genre-bending style. So there were enormous wide-shouldered jackets, which slotted on the body like sheaths (he said these ‘extreme’ silhouettes were meant to appear as if shaped by the elements); bags which hung on leather staffs like bindles; or enormous woven headpieces which felt as much for ceremony as protection. Indeed, Ghesquière said that he wanted to hint towards traditional dress – and the rituals that surround it – though here, like the set, abstracted into futuristic forms. ‘It is not an escape from our realities, but an echo of them,’ he said via the collection notes. ‘A new folklore, for the future.’ Jack Moss

Louis Vuitton A/W 2026 runway

Louis Vuitton A/W 2026 runway

(Image credit: Jack Moss)

Gillian Anderson and Chloë Sevigny walk for Miu Miu

Miu Miu A/W 2026

Miu Miu A/W 2026

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Miu Miu closed the final day of Paris Fashion Week with a star-studded cast of models for its A/W 2026 collection, which included Chloë Sevigny and Gillian Anderson.

The collection, titled ‘Mindful Intimacy’, evoked the 1990s in minimal tailoring and close-fitting bootcut pants, worn with zig-zag headbands and block heels – so it was no wonder Miu Miu tapped two icons of 90s style for the show. India Jarvis

Read more about the star-studded cast here