Paris Fashion Week 2025: Runway Highlights From The Best Shows
With 74 runway shows and 34 presentations, Paris Fashion Week, the longest of the global ‘Big Four’ has reaffirmed its reputation as fashion’s most experimental stage. Here’s a lowdown of standout showcases which casted off convention at Schiaparelli, Zomer, Stella McCartney, Rabanne, and more
Paris Fashion Week 2025 has already grabbed the headlines for having the longest list of celebrity styles of all the ‘BIG Four’ fashion shows, being the longest-running of them all. This year, starting from September 29, the fashion show ends on October 7 after a nine-day-run. It gave us many fashion moments; from Meghan Markle’s surprising appearance to a fashion show after a decade, for Balenciaga, to K-pop band BTS’ V making his debut at the Paris Fashion Week for Celine’s show, supermodel Heidi Klum stealing the spotlight for a see-through dress at Vetements to Kendall Jenner driving the Internet into a frenzy with barely-there tulle gown at Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer 2026 show.
Beyond celebrity styles and appearances, Paris knows how to serve the best, daringly bold and experimental runway looks. With 74 runway shows and 34 presentations, it stood out for showing a world of possibilities with norm-bending styles that got rid of the mundane. Rabanne brought futuristic swimsuits, while Zomer displayed its ‘big’ moves playing with proportions and sizes in accessories. Weinsanto and Louis Vuitton paid homage to classic French tailoring while on the contrary Givenchy dismantled the idea of traditional tailoring to reveal the intimacy with fluid silhouettes, and Maison Margiela brought hybrid garments (imagine silk scarves on jackets). That way, rebellion and refinement went hand-in-hand with the below best shows at Paris Fashion Week.
Schiaparelli is ‘barely there’
Perhaps one of the most head-turning showcases from Paris Fashion Week was Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer 2026’s presentation at the Pompidou Center — a fitting nod to Elsa Schiaparelli’s art-meets-fashion legacy. Daniel Roseberry presented minimalist and risque tailoring featuring leather shirts, knit dresses, tulle gowns, and cropped tops paired with cream trousers adorned with hammered frills and perforations. The stand-out dresses remain Kendall Jenner’s ethereal black tulle gown embroidered with goat-hair polka dots and Rosalieke Fuchs’ scarlet satin halter dress that displayed feminine allure with sensual dressing.
Stella McCartney’s call to action
At the Centre Pompidou, Stella McCartney turned Paris Fashion Week into a stage for activism and artistry. The Spring/Summer 2026 show opened with Helen Mirren reciting Come Together by The Beatles — setting the tone for a collection that was a rallying cry for cruelty-free fashion. Boxy suits, cloud-soft dresses, feather-free feather gowns, dresses crafted from Fevvers, the world’s first plant-based feather alternative, showcased McCartney’s signature sustainable innovation on the runway.
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Weinsanto’s French Finesse
Weinsanto celebrated its fifth anniversary with the collection Les Irrésistibles Favorites. It was an ode to the label’s French roots where designer Victor Weinsanto borrowed from the elegance of 17th and 18th-century icons like Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry, who were mistresses of King Louis XV of France. On the runway inspired by the courts of Versailles was a showcase of structured corsets, draped coats, and rose-petal-like bustier skirts in rich fabrics such as velvet, floral damask jacquards, and taffetas accentuated with eccentric 18th-century-inspired hats, and jacquard handbags. It was equal parts theatrical, playful, sensuous.
Rabanne’s futuristic swimsuits
For Spring/Summer 2026, Rabanne explored the delicate tension between hope and discomfort. Drawing on mid-century glamour and futuristic sensuality, Creative Director of the label Julien Dossena re-imagined the 1950s swimsuit as a new couture garment. The showcase had vivid tropical prints adorned with metallic florals, worn leathers, and accessorised with sleek eyewear, belts and shimmery handbags. Each piece is bright in the dichotomy of life where dystopian reality collides with utopian dreams.
Ganni’s sea-side Summerscape
GANNI’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection Summer Belongs to Everyone took us all on the seaside summers of childhood days. Creative Director Ditte Reffstrup evoked an beach-side escapade filled with sea-salt, sand, and unfiltered joy of colourful clothing. The collection featuring vibrant colours of fuchsia, red, pale yellow, turquoise and earthy tones had breezy silhouettes like wrapped silks, sheer knits, starpes dresses, one shoulder trench coats featuring patchwork styling, hand-crocheted textures, and crochet florals.
Louis Vuitton’s art of construction
At Louis Vuitton, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection featured classic and sculptural silhouettes with pieces looking like wearable art. From retro-inspired pieces like high-low skirts, bubble skirts, mesh naked dresses, to pleated strapless the ensembles were given a delicate and ornate look with sheer panelling, vintage florals, shimmer details and jacquard stripes in a celebration of intimacy and artful construction.
Zomer’s ‘Big’ Moves
Zomer’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection had a striking exploration of innocence and transformation, moving from girlhood to womanhood. It played on proportions and sizes as if exhibiting a woman’s journey. On the models were double-waisted skirts paired with exaggerated belts, half-jackets, skin-fitted striped tops, bombers, athletic shorts, and exuberantly coloured ensembles in shades of olive green, cobalt blue, orange, electrifying purple, pink and more.
