For Fall/Winter 2025–2026, Chanel turned away from the grandiosity of spectacle and leaned into intimacy, transforming an upper floor of the Grand Palais into a whispering homage to the house’s iconic salons at 31 Rue Cambon. Here, in a cocoon of mirrored walls, plush beige banquettes, and quilted cushions, the stage was set not for theatrics—but for exclusivity. It was a deliberate return to the maison’s roots, where haute couture is less about performance and more about reverence.

Ashi Studio’s Fall/Winter 2025–2026 Haute Couture presentation in Paris was less a conventional runway and more an intimate, visceral meditation on craftsmanship. In a season where many designers leaned into spectacle or strict narrative, Ashi took a detour into the soul of his atelier—opting instead for a tactile, organic process that honored intuition over imposed direction. The result was a hauntingly beautiful collection that spoke through its textures, silhouettes, and unapologetic artistry.

At Paris Couture Week FW25, Tony Ward unveiled his Fall-Winter 2025–2026 Haute Couture collection, Entre Rêve et Regard—a vision suspended between dream and gaze. This season, Ward stepped boldly into theatrical terrain, presenting couture as a mirror of transformation and self-revelation.

With its Pre-Fall 2025 collection, Marchesa returns to its signature universe of timeless femininity, cinematic flourishes, and intricately layered beauty. Co-founders Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig continue to explore the brand’s romantic ethos—yet this season feels more grounded in movement, grace, and effortless elegance than ever before.

In his second collection for Mithridate, Daniel Fletcher weaves an evocative tapestry that stretches across continents and centuries. Resort 2026 is a contemplative journey—a sartorial bridge between British tradition and Chinese artistry, where summer rituals become visual metaphors, and heritage is less about nostalgia and more about redefinition.

For Resort 2026, Elisabetta Franchi delivers a quietly powerful evolution of her signature codes—balancing glamour with grit, seduction with self-possession. More than just a lookbook, this collection reads like a manifesto. Not one shouted from the rooftops, but lived through the details of every garment, guided by ten quietly radical words: beauty, femininity, seduction, empowerment, strength, determination, dedication, energy, evolution, future.

At the historic Villa Litta in Lainate, Rowen Rose transported its audience into an otherworldly spa of myth and style. The Spring/Summer 2026 collection—unveiled in the villa’s baroque nymphaeum—was no ordinary fashion show; it was a procession through a living dream, where mythology, ritual, and modern refinement converged.

For Resort 2026, Ermanno Scervino delivers a collection that is as evocative as it is refined—an ode to iconic elegance with a thoroughly modern attitude. Bridging old-world glamour with present-day pragmatism, Scervino reimagines his house codes through the sunlit lens of the Mediterranean and the shadowed grace of urban sophistication. The result is a wardrobe steeped in sprezzatura—that uniquely Italian ease that makes effort look like instinct.

For his Resort 2026 collection, Bibhu Mohapatra unveils a deeply personal chapter in his creative journey—one steeped in nostalgia, heritage, and the quiet poetry of place. Building upon last season’s introspective narrative, this latest offering draws profound inspiration from Mohapatra’s recent return to his ancestral village in India—a homecoming two decades in the making. These formative memories breathe life into a collection that artfully bridges past and present.