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Haute Couture Week July 2026: Manish Malhotra and Standing Ground to debut on schedule

The autumn/winter 2026/2027 Haute Couture Week will take place from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2026. It welcomes two new houses: Manish Malhotra and Standing Ground, blending the power of Indian luxury with young London-based design. Manish Malhotra: Bollywood aesthetic comes to Paris Haute Couture Week On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at...

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Video: 100 Post-WWII couture dresses that defined mid-century fashion

The post-WWII era, the Golden Age of mid-century fashion, saw Parisian couture redefine global elegance with architecturally brilliant and technically advanced gowns. This film explores 100 iconic dresses from this period, celebrating the legendary houses that shaped modern femininity, including: Christian Dior, who launched the 1947 "New Look;"...

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A return to craft and contemplation for Haute Couture

What is the role of couture collections in 2026? It is a question designers seemed to be grappling with this haute couture season. Couture remains the pinnacle of luxury, yet in a world in flux, recent seasons have sometimes rendered its ostentatious creations more vanity project than wearable proposition. This season, however, some voices –...

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Phan Huy: the fashion prodigy putting Vietnam on the map

Phan Huy has had a thrilling -- but quite stressful -- journey to making history at Paris Haute Couture Week on Thursday where he will become the youngest and the first Vietnamese designer to present a collection on the official calendar. The early part of his week was spent anxiously waiting for his designs to arrive in France from Vietnam...

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Blazy takes flight of fancy with bird-themed Chanel show

After reaching for the stars in his first show for Chanel, new chief designer Matthieu Blazy took a feathery flight of fancy for his debut Haute Couture collection inspired by birds and nature on Tuesday. The vast Grand Palais exhibition space in central Paris was transformed into an enchanted and psychedelic forest populated by giant mushrooms...

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Roger Vivier launches monograph and reanimates Animalier during couture week

During Paris Haute Couture Week, Maison Vivier unveiled Atelier Animalier, a Spring–Summer 2026 Pièce Unique collection presented at its Paris headquarters. Rather than a conventional product launch, the project was framed as a focused exploration of the maison’s archives and contemporary craftsmanship. Creative director Gherardo Felloni...

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Jonathan Anderson’s Dior couture debut

With a meadow suspended overhead, Jonathan Anderson’s haute couture debut for Dior unfolded beneath a ceiling of flowers at the Musée Rodin, transforming the historic venue into a living ecosystem. The gesture inevitably recalled Raf Simons’ own floral interventions for the house, most memorably his 2015 couture show, when the museum’s walls...

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Haute couture: Moment of truth for Matthieu Blazy at Chanel

Will Matthieu Blazy build on his success at Chanel? Following a highly praised womenswear collection in October, Paris eagerly awaits the designer's first haute couture show on Tuesday. This unprecedented undertaking will be closely scrutinised. The show, held as usual at the Grand Palais in the morning, is the highlight of this haute couture...

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Giambattista Valli cancels couture show, raising questions over Pinault’s Artémis strategy

As Paris Haute Couture Week opens this Monday, January 26, 2026, the couture house Giambattista Valli has cancelled its show, scheduled for the first day, at the last minute. In a statement, the house of Giambattista Valli announced it will not present a haute couture show: “This decision is part of a thorough review of the organisation and...

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Haute couture, a French exception under high protection

Paris - Haute couture returns to Paris on Monday for four days of shows. This highly codified and exclusively Parisian event brings together a handful of houses that meet specific criteria. Often used to describe luxury fashion, the term “haute couture” is actually a legally protected designation, not to be confused with ready-to-wear. Here are...

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Phan Huy becomes the youngest designer ever selected for Paris Haute Couture Week

At just 26 years old, Phan Huy has reached a milestone few designers ever approach: selected to present at Paris Haute Couture Week. His upcoming show on January 29th marks not only a personal breakthrough, but also a historic first for Vietnam, which will have an official representative on the couture calendar for the first time. Paris Haute...

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Inside couturier Rahul Mishra's museum-like flagship store in Mumbai

Couturier Rahul Mishra, who shows on the official Paris Haute Couture Week calendar, has announced a unique opening. This is his largest and most ambitious flagship in Mumbai, India, envisioned as a "living museum of couture". Committed to traditional Indian craftsmanship, Mishra has integrated his manufacturing process within several Indian...