The fourth and closing main Fashion Week of the action-packed Spring/Summer 2026 season has commenced in Paris, and it is the longest of the lot, working from twenty ninth September all the manner by means of to seventh October. During this time, some of the world’s most influential A-listers, influencers, patrons and editors are set to descend on the so-called City of Light to see the exhibits, attend the events, pose for road type snaps, and an entire lot extra in between.
With so many big-name exhibits on schedule, hotly anticipated designer debuts (Jonathan Anderson at Dior, Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, Pierpaolo at Balenciaga, to call however a number of…), and glitzy occasions deliberate, there’s lots to maintain observe of. But we have the Marie Claire UK crew on the floor bringing you all the things you must know dwell and direct from Paris Fashion Week. Think of this as your cheat-sheet—whether or not you are on the town or not…
Paris Fashion Week SS26: Day Two Highlights
Stella McCartney’s Urge to “Come Together”
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Can you think about a greater solution to open a present than Dame Helen Mirren reciting The Beatles’ 1969 hit Come Together in spoken phrase? I feel not. And true to kind, Stella McCartney’s many high-profile followers got here collectively for her Spring/Summer 2026 present—amongst them, Cara Delevingne, Robin Wright, Anais Gallagher, Johnny Depp, Ice Spice and Paris Jackson.
This similar mission assertion—to “come together for humanity, animals and Mother Earth”—was additionally woven all through the assortment itself, that was crafted with 98% acutely aware, 100% cruelty-free supplies.
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Stella is thought for main the manner in trend innovation, and her SS26 designs ensured she delivered on that entrance too. The assortment included two world-firsts: a plant-based, vegan different to feathers referred to as FEVVERS that the designer used on her sculptural clothes and coats, and PURE.TECH, a fabric that neutralises pollution and actively cleans the air as it’s worn, utilized right here to deconstructed denim. Genius on all fronts.
Lanvin’s Love Letter to Blue
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Peter Copping’s sophomore present for Lanvin was bathed in blue—the home’s signature shade, founder Jeanne Lanvin’s lifelong fascination, and a illustration of “tranquility, sincerity and freedom.” Variations of the color lined the show-space’s partitions and flooring, whereas additionally showing in numerous varieties all through the assortment itself—whether or not as pale powder-blue robes, fits and silk two-pieces, midnight-hued panels in a black draped gown and leather-based coat, the base of a jazzy sample, or just the tint of a sun shades lens.
The Art of Living, the Louis Vuitton Way
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Nicolas Ghesquière’s newest present for Louis Vuitton happened in the spectacular surrounds of the Louvre—particularly inside Anne of Austria’s summer time flats. As grand and gilded as you’d anticipate from the mom of Louis XIV, they shaped the good backdrop for a set described in the present notes as “a celebration of the art of living… intimacy and the boundless freedom of the private sphere”. The consequence? Pieces impressed by historical past however that felt totally trendy, from ruffle- and fur-trimmed jackets and stone-coloured suiting, to sculptural clothes, elegant sheer materials, and a wonderful bead-fringed robe.
Paris Fashion Week SS26: Day One Highlights
A Star-Studded Saint Laurent
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The assortment itself was a triumph, too: all 80s energy dressing with sharp shoulders, epic leather-based separates, bow-fronted shirts, high-neck tie-waist trenches, and XXL sun shades and crystal earrings for added glamour.
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