“Freedom has no destination. Only the road.” With these words, Jitrois framed its Spring/Summer 2026 lookbook at Paris Fashion Week, a bold, sensual meditation on liberation, identity, and the body in motion. Jean Claude Jitrois, a master of leather as language, transforms garments into declarations: this is less a wardrobe than a manifesto, a cinematic journey through desire, defiance, and transformation.

From the first silhouette, the collection evokes the restless energy of a road movie, drawing on the spirit of Thelma & Louise, the subversive edge of The Doom Generation, and the intoxicating glamour of La Dolce Vita. Each piece functions as a narrative fragment: sculpted leather mini-dresses as armor, sheer panels revealing vulnerability, and biker jackets exuding velocity and power. Jitrois’s woman is perpetually in motion, steering her own myth across landscapes of light, shadow, and longing.

Contrasts define the aesthetic. Razor-sharp tailoring collides with fluid transparency, while stretch leather and tulle suggest both constraint and liberation. Every seam, cut, and panel reads as an extension of expression; the body renders both subject and canvas. Materiality remains central: signature stretch leathers, supple plongé lambskin, and embroidered surfaces articulate a tactile dialogue between strength and softness. Metallic finishes catch the light like reflections on asphalt, turning craft into sensation and texture into narrative.

The palette underscores this emotional landscape. Black and white set the stage for tension and release, while flashes of fuchsia, scarlet, and electric blue punctuate with kinetic energy. Mineral and skin tones root the collection in the human form, a celebration of the body as both frontier and vessel.

In Jitrois Spring/Summer 2026, the road itself becomes a metaphor: a space of movement, transformation, and unrestrained possibility. Jean Claude Jitrois continues to translate freedom into form, crafting a language of liberation that is precise, provocative, and profoundly alive.