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Palais Galliera – Tisser, broder, sublimer
Craft, technique, mastery, these are words that that usually point to heritage, to preservation, to something already known. But at Palais Galliera, the exhibition Tisser, broder, sublimer : les savoir-faire de la mode gently shifts that expectation. The focus isn’t on finished pieces but on everything that leads up to them. Before form The exhibition…
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Palais Galliera – 18th century fashion
Reading the past There is something deceptively familiar about the 18th century. Corsets, wide skirts, ornament, excess, these forms feel instantly recognisable, almost reduced to visual codes. They circulate through fashion imagery, cinema, and contemporary collections, often detached from their original context. But at Palais Galliera, La Mode du XVIIIe siècle : un héritage fantasmé…
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Paris Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2026 – 5 Directions that defined the season
Paris never delivers a single message. The city functions like a laboratory. Multiple visions unfolding in parallel, sometimes contradicting each other, sometimes unexpectedly aligning. Yet across the Fall/Winter 2026 season, several directions became impossible to ignore. Not trying to create the new trend or to declared a movement but more like a series of shared…
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5 Structural Themes of Milan FW 2026
Every fashion week produces hundreds of looks. Too many, in fact, to fully process in real time. But what lingers isn’t the individual outfit. It’s the repetition. The quiet overlaps between houses that aren’t coordinating, yet somehow arrive at similar conclusions. Milan this season didn’t feel loud or disruptive. There was no clear rupture, no…
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What Milan FW 2026 told us about fashion now
Fashion weeks are often framed as moments of spectacle. Big stages, amplified silhouettes, images designed to circulate instantly. But what they reveal is rarely in the obvious. Beneath the lights, there is always something quieter unfolding — a shift in how designers are thinking, adjusting, recalibrating. Not in declarations, but in choices. In restraint. In…