
Saint Laurent: Each season the house pitches up at the Place du Trocadero, the most picturesque spot in Paris, slapbang opposite the Eiffel Tower. For A/W 2019, Anthony Vaccarello erected a huge silver box lined with asymmetrical panels of mirror. Inside, endless rows of vertical lights lined a long catwalk, and twinkled and flashed as the show began. At the show’s finale, these lights emitted UV light, and illuminated the flourescent ostrich feather trim and spindly stilettos sported by models.

JW Anderson: ‘I wanted to do something that was about finding this fantasy and imagination in fashion,’ explained Jonathan Anderson of the inspiration behind his eponymous brand’s A/W 2019 show. His accompanying show set in London’s Bloomsbury, produced in collaboration with Holmes Production, resembled both a zen Japanese rock garden, but also appeared as a blanket of clouds, with the leaves of tree tops poking through the atmosphere.

Celine: At the brand’s menswear show in January, Hedi Slimane demonstrated an enthusiasm for robotics, with a graphic, glowing orb which glided down the runway. For Celine’s A/W 2019 women’s show, a vast glass box hovered above the catwalk at Les Invalides, suspended in the air by a huge robotic arm. Inside, a model posed in an outfit oozing Parisienne insouciance, as if in trying on culottes, foulard scarves and aviators inside a mirrored changing room. As the show began, the box hovered down to the catwalk, and the first model took to the runway. Photography: Courtesy of Celine / Hedi Slimane

Loewe: Reflective herringbone parquet flooring lined the runway of the Spanish brand’s catwalk space at the Maison de l’UNESCO in Paris. Creative director Jonathan Anderson took a more stripped back approach to set design for A/W 2019. On closer inspection the white walls of the space where lined with with miniature oval-shaped portraits. These dated from the 16th or 17th century and featured paintings of English, Flemish, French, Italian and Spanish provenance. They nodded to the microscopic detail that was applied to pieces in the accompanying collection. Photography: Manuel Braun

Boss: There was an aquatic edge behind chief creative officer Ingo Wilts’ set design concept for the German brand’s A/W 2019 men’s and women’s show. Wilts worked with Chameleon Visual on a showspace at Basketball City in Manhattan, which featured a long runway at its centre lapped by water. Models strode the runway as if swishing through a watery pavement, illuminated by tessellated lengths of strip lighting overhead.

Byblos: Creative director Manuel Facchini had environmentalism on his mind for autumn, using sequins punched from recycled plastic bottles as embellishment on his designs. His A/W 2019 show set celebrated the dreamlike beauty of the Aurora Borealis and the dazzling purity of Arctic Ice. His Milan Fashion Week runway set featured a canopy evoking a graphic version of the Northern Lights, reflecting pink and green hues onto the glossy catwalk.