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 expe...
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20 of 26 episodesSpring-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 su...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 coutur...
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 distr...
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 ingr...
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...
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 an...
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...
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 inc...
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 fi...
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 communicat...
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...
Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collections: An invigorated avant garde
Fashion's avant garde is at its most creative when it looks to the outside world for inspiration. For next summer's ready-to wear-looks, Vic...
Ready-to-wear collections, summer 2025: The new Amazons
A celebration of the body, dance, art and sport! At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri installs Italian archer-artist Sagg Napoli in a long glass cag...
Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2024/25: Art or not?
At the Rodin Museum Dior presents its latest collection against a décor comprised of mosaics by the New York-based feminist artist Faith Rin...