All the best of the Parisian catwalks and a behind-the-scenes look at the big names in Haute couture. Friday at 11:20am Paris time.
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Spring-summer 2027 ready-to-wear collections: Africa in the spotlight at Paris Fashion Week
Fashion can absolutely be political, when it shapes identities and questions the balance of power. With his label Maxhosa Africa, South Africa's Laduma Ngxokolo is determined to pu…
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2027 spring-summer ready-to-wear collections: Audacity, movement and sensuality
We bring you all the latest from Paris Fashion Week. For Weinsanto, audacity is about finding a lightness, as embodied by the LGBTQ+ community. At Issey Miyake, it's about sensuali…
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Haute Couture, autumn-winter 2026/27: Make way for the independent labels
Some couturiers get to modernise houses owned by luxury groups. Among them is Duran Lantink, who draws on Jean Paul Gaultier's ballet-costume era for his inspiration. Independent h…
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Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2027: Big on spectacle and on message
In the world of fashion, Haute Couture has a place all its own. Found nowhere else on earth, it is a distinctly French phenomenon. Both experimental and full of symbolism, Haute Co…
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Spring-Summer 2027 menswear: The planet is burning
As rising populism threatens freedom of expression, designers can no longer look away. Yohji Yamamoto rages, with clothes scorched by the sun. Issey Miyake celebrates the power of…
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Ready-to-wear autumn-winter 2026/27 collections: Is fashion still subversive?
Is fashion still subversive? The answer is yes, with the extraordinarily named Matières Fécales label. At Yohji Yamamoto, it's yes, but more delicately. Satoshi Kondo for Issey Miy…
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Autumn/Winter 26/27: Young designers embrace sartorial optimism
Wars, conflicts, the rise of populism, and the meteoric advance of artificial intelligence – in a world full of uncertainty, how and why can we continue to create new fashion colle…
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When Haute Couture breaks with tradition: Summer 2026 collections
Across the discipline, designers are breathing fresh perspectives into Haute Couture. Kevin Germanier repurposes Berluti outfits worn by the French Olympic team. Stéphane Rolland e…
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Menswear collections, autumn-winter 2026/27: Resisting a toxic world
For some designers, fashion is less about clothes themselves, and more about what those clothes can convey. They see fashion as primarily a political endeavour, a means of challeng…
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Spring-summer 2026 ready-to-wear: Free, independent and proud
This special report zooms in on the smaller fashion houses that sparkled during Paris Fashion Week. Vincent Pressiat, like Victor Weinsanto, looked to the past, when the king's fav…
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Haute Couture seeks to save the planet, with Iris van Herpen leading the charge
Raising awareness about the fragility of our oceans, our land and our Indigenous heritage is the challenge facing a new generation of couturiers. For autumn-winter 2025/26, Iris va…
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Men's fashion for spring-summer 2026? It's political!
Whether it involves making space for the trans community, raising awareness about conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, expressing their distrust of conventional conservative attitud…
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Ready-to-wear, fall-winter 2025: The art of always being right
To create a fashion collection, you need three key elements: silhouette, colour, material – be it for clothes or accessories. Yet these ingredients are lifeless without the discour…
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Togo's international fashion festival fights for a world without cancer
Togo's International Fashion Festival has chosen a topical theme for its twelfth edition: the fight against cancer. The issue may not appear glamorous, but the alarming rise in can…
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Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2025: Creativity and disruption
The collective show from the international students of the Institut Français de la Mode kicks off the autumn-winter 2025/26 presentations and asks contemporary questions. How can a…
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Haute couture collections, summer 2025: Playful modernisation
What do designers Olivier Saillard, Kevin Germanier, Stéphane Rolland, Khol by Hamza Guelmouss and Valentin Nicot as well as Julien Fournié all have in common? They are reinventing…
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Menswear collections, winter 2025: Strong messages and a poetic feel
Designers Jeanne Friot, Walter Van Beirendonck and Louis Gabriel Nouchi have taken a stand to defend gender-neutral fashion, calling for inclusion rather than exclusion. Meanwhile,…
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Haute Couture collections, summer 2025: Antidotes to tense times
In 2025's uncertain climate and amid international crises, luxury industries are questioning their model: how to meet ever more ambitious financial targets? How can creativity insp…
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Menswear & couture collections 2024/25: New inclusive communication strategies
Luxury fashion is big business. To stay relevant, big luxury houses and independent labels alike know to constantly refresh their communication strategies. Celebrity endorsement st…
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Ready-to-wear, summer 2025: Paris, the ideal stage for Asian and African designers
At more than 80 years old, Yohji Yamamoto still enjoys reassembling fabric like a child. At Issey Miyake, Satoshi Kondo offers a collection inspired by traditional Japanese paperma…