Coperni: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Coperni SS26 delivered clothes not just as second skin – but as a living one.
Thom Browne: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Thom Browne comes in peace. Or so said the silver-painted men in matching skirt suits who opened the show like statues dragged straight out of Area 51.
Celine: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Michael Rider’s ready-to-wear debut for Celine unfolded en plein air at the Parc de Saint-Cloud, perched on an elevated runway beneath the day’s blue sky.
McQueen: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Release the beast. For his latest McQueen outing, Sean McGirr tapped into the McQueen woman’s animalistic side.
Chloé: Ready-To-Wear SS26
The Chloé girl is evolving. There’s more to her than boho. For SS26, Chemena Kamali showed she can wear archive florals, draped and swagged into curve caressing, 1950s-inspired dresses. The designer keyed into the innate femininity of the house, going
Valentino: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Alessandro Michele is a romantic and thinks like a poet. He framed his show with a self-penned essay about the film maker, actor and poet, Pier Paolo Pasolini who used fireflies resisting the darkness of night as a metaphor for
Jean Paul Gaultier: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Duran Lantink's Jean Paul Gaultier debut show, full of shocks, thrills and daring silhouette manipulations, was presented with huge conviction and prompted happy tears from the JPG, who watched from the front row.
Maison Margiela: Ready-To-Wear SS26
From Glenn Martens' co-ed debut ready-to-wear for Margiela, was every bit as fearless as his couture.
Junya Watanabe: Ready-To-Wear SS26
How boring fashion would be without Junya Watanabe. Serving as the first act in Saturday’s holy Japanese trinity – collections from Noir Kei Ninomiya and Comme des Garçons were shown in the afternoon – Watanabe delivered a masterclass in controlled
Hermès: Ready-To-Wear SS26
Inspired by France’s Camargue region – its wild nature, cowboy culture and white horses, Nadège Vanhée brought a freer, more bohemian feeling to the Hermès equestrian story.
Noir Kei Ninomiya: Ready-To-Wear SS26
A few things are certain when attending a Noir Kei Ninomiya show: there will be harnesses, headdresses, and three dimensional looks that span the width of a runway.
Andreas Kronthaler For Vivienne Westwood: Ready-To-Wear SS26
In designing his latest collection for Vivienne Westwood, Andreas Kronthaler was thinking about boudoirs.
Balenciaga: Ready-To-Wear SS26
When he first got the job at Balenciaga, Pierpaolo Piccioli went straight to the archive, the heart of the house.
Comme Des Garçons: Ready-To-Wear SS26
“I believe in the positiveness and the value that can be born from the damaging of perfect things.” That was the message from Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo who titled her show After the Dust.
Alaia: Ready-To-Wear SS26
For SS26, Pieter Mulier continued to refine the language he’s been building at Alaïa – one rooted in precision, pragmatism and the quiet power of construction.