Stéphane Rolland returned to Paris Couture Week with a Spring/Summer 2026 presentation conceived as both a spectacle and a symbolic act. Staged at the historic Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione and partially opened to the public in support of the Fondation des Hôpitaux, the show positioned couture within a broader cultural and philanthropic context. The circular architecture of the venue, combined with live performance elements, echoed the collection’s conceptual roots in Pablo Picasso’s work for the ballet Parade and the evocative imagery of the circus.

For Fall/Winter 2026–2027 at London Fashion Week, Pauline Dujancourt shifted the narrative of the witch away from folklore and toward fellowship. Inspired by In Defense of Witches by Mona Chollet, the Paris-born, London-based designer explored the idea of women living and creating collectively, sharing techniques, sustaining knowledge, and historically facing persecution for their autonomy. The reference felt less literary than lived, echoing Dujancourt’s own studio model built on close collaboration with specialist knitters in Peru and France.

In a fashion landscape driven by acceleration, Richard Quinn continues to argue for endurance. For Fall/Winter 2026–2027 at London Fashion Week, the British designer refined his devotion to bridal and occasion wear into a more conceptual proposition, an archive imagined in advance. Rather than presenting a seasonal mood, Quinn proposed garments conceived as future relics, pieces designed to outlast trends and timestamps.

Miss Sohee’s Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture collection unfolded as a poetic meditation on intimacy and observation, shaped by a delicate tension between interior emotion and the external world. Presented within the gilded salons of the Shangri-La, the opulence of the setting acted not as a spectacle but as a quiet frame for a deeply personal narrative rooted in memory. At the heart of the collection was a single, recurring image: a window in Sohee Park’s family home in southern Korea, through which she once watched wisteria bloom, bamboo sway, and light dissolve into sea and sky. That act of looking became the conceptual anchor, positioning the female form as a threshold between self and landscape.

For Fall/Winter 2026–2027, Reem Acra reaffirmed her mastery of occasion dressing with a collection that balanced opulence and restraint in equal measure. In an era where minimalism often dominates the conversation, Acra remains steadfast in her belief that glamour, when executed with precision, never loses relevance.