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Quiet displacement of tailoring – Soshiotsuki Paris SS27
Tailoring has long been associated with precision. It establishes order through proportion, structure and balance, giving garments a sense of permanence that has defined menswear for generations. At SOSHIOTSUKI, however, those conventions never felt entirely secure. Under the direction of Soshi Otsuki, the Spring/Summer 2027 collection proposed a quieter evolution, one where tailoring remained intact…
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Pharrell’s expanding vision at Louis Vuitton
Few shows during Paris Men’s Fashion Week command attention quite like Louis Vuitton. Since Pharrell Williams took over the house’s menswear, each presentation has grown beyond the traditional runway, becoming a cultural event that reaches well beyond the fashion industry. The collections are designed not only to introduce new clothes, but to shape conversations across…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Reading the season
Paris rarely moves in one direction. Across nine days of shows and presentations, ideas overlapped, contradicted one another and occasionally arrived at remarkably similar conclusions. Fall/Winter 2026 was no exception. After the wave of creative director debuts that transformed the previous season, this edition felt less concerned with introductions and more interested in what might…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Miu Miu
Intelligence of instability Miu Miu has spent years examining femininity without trying to settle on a definitive version of it. Youth and maturity, vulnerability and authority, practicality and sensuality regularly occupy the same collection, not as opposites waiting to be reconciled but as different possibilities within the same wardrobe. For Fall/Winter 2026-2027, Miuccia Prada turned…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Vivienne Westwood
At Vivienne Westwood, history has never been particularly well behaved. It is borrowed, distorted and sometimes treated with outright irreverence, which is precisely why the house’s references to the past rarely feel nostalgic. For Fall/Winter 2026–2027, Andreas Kronthaler returned to that instinct with a collection that appeared chaotic by design, allowing different periods, characters and…
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Paris Fall/Winter 2026 – Rick Owens
Monumental but human Rick Owens has spent much of his career exploring what happens when clothing refuses to remain within the expected proportions of the body. For Fall/Winter 2026-2027, presented at the Palais de Tokyo on March 5, that familiar instinct took on a more protective character. Titled Tower, the collection built its silhouettes upward…