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Within the framework of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2026, Iris van Herpen takes the audience into a space where fashion and science intersect. The catwalk at Élysée Montmartre was covered with mist from dry ice, combined with lighting design to create the feeling of being in front of an unexplained natural phenomenon. But what makes the collection a highlight lies in how the designer continues to expand the borders of Haute Couture through the conquest of materials.

Within the framework of Haute Couture Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2026, Elie Saab takes the audience into the world of costume parties with the spirit of Surrealism. For the Lebanese designer, this is not only a source of aesthetic inspiration but also a way to turn dreams into concrete shapes. Masks, anonymity and a sense of immersion became the starting point for the collection.

In the library at Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment, Matthieu Blazy found a small book called “Les Fées, Contes des Contes”. The book became the starting point for the CHANEL Haute Couture Fall Winter 2026 collection, with fairy tales intertwined with childhood memories and items associated with everyday life.

At Haute Couture Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2026, Pierpaolo Piccioli officially launched the first Haute Couture collection for Balenciaga. The show took place in the courtyard of Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, marking the first time one of Italian fashion’s most iconic designers had a direct dialogue with the legacy left by Cristóbal Balenciaga.

14 years after starting the Alta Moda journey in Taormina, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana return to the origin of this chapter of history. The Alta Moda 2026 show taking place at the Radicepura Botanical Park is a dialogue between creativity, mythology and craftsmanship. At the foot of Mount Etna, the natural landscape becomes the backdrop for the values ​​of Fatto a Mano, the philosophy of honoring Italian craftsmanship, to be told through each design.

Silvana Armani’s second Haute Couture collection for Armani Privé, launched at Palazzo Armani, marks a clear shift in the Italian fashion house’s creative language.

Simon Porte Jacquemus returns to his most original inspirations in the Spring Summer 2027 collection called “Le Bonheur”. Performed on the windswept rocky shores of Île Rousse, Corsica, the premiere took place amid an almost pristine Mediterranean landscape.

The Piaget brand officially launched Colors of Extraleganza – a collection of 65 pieces that complete the final chapter in the company’s high jewelry trilogy. This masterpiece follows the Essence of Extraleganza collection (launched on the occasion of the fashion house’s 150th anniversary in 2024) and the Shapes of Extraleganza collection last year. This event concludes the sublime three-year journey that the Swiss fashion house used to recreate the restless creative spirit of the 1960s and 1970s.

Amid the context of Europe being engulfed in an intense heat wave, the Rick Owens Men’s Spring Summer 2027 collection was presented in the morning at the Palais de Tokyo.