Paris Fashion Week Womenswear FW26

OUTSIDE THE SHOWS
That’s Paris Fashion Week Womenswear FW26

written LE MILE

Outside the official schedules and beyond the choreographed pace of the runway, Paris Fashion Week Womenswear FW26 appeared in fragments across the streets between venues, cafés, taxis and sudden crossings of the boulevard. The city once again became a moving stage where the rhythm of fashion month revealed itself in passing silhouettes and fleeting encounters.

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
COMME DES GARCONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
HERMES

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LOEWE

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LOEWE

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LOEWE

Across the runways in Paris, the season leaned into a heightened dialogue between structure and softness as designers revisited ideas of femininity through precision and fluidity. Romantic fabrics such as lace and sheer layers appeared alongside sculpted tailoring and sharply defined silhouettes, while sensual black, saturated colour and glossy materials punctuated the collections with moments of intensity. Houses including Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and Alaïa articulated a season balancing clarity with emotion, discipline with instinct.

Moving through the streets between venues, these ideas took on a more instinctive rhythm as attendees assembled their own visual language from fragments of the season. Elongated coats moved beside fluid dresses layered under oversized outerwear, precise tailoring met sheer textures and flashes of colour, while boots, sculptural bags, archival references and unexpected material contrasts appeared in motion as people travelled between appointments, presentations and late arrivals. Captured by Ian Kobylanski, Outside the Shows turns its attention to this transitional space where fashion briefly leaves the runway and enters the street, observing the individuals who animate the atmosphere surrounding the shows. Shot across Paris during the closing days of the womenswear calendar in early March, the series reflects a city temporarily transformed into a corridor of silhouettes where ideas introduced on the runway begin their first life in the open air.

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
Jessica Chastain, ZIMMERMANN

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LACOSTE

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
GIVENCHY

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LACOSTE

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
ISSEY MIYAKI

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
COMME DES GARCONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
GABRIELA HEARST

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
GIVENCHY

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
COMME DES GARCONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
COMME DES GARCONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
NINA RICCI

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
GIVENCHY

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
AKRIS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
OTTOLINGER

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

all visuals
(c) IAN KOBYLANSKI

Paris Fashion Week Womenswear FW26, March 2026

Paris Fashion Week Streetstyles AW26

OUTSIDE THE SHOWS
*That’s Paris Fashion Week Menswear FW26

written LE MILE

Outside the official schedules and away from the controlled choreography of the runway, Paris Fashion Week Menswear FW26 revealed its most telling moments in motion, on the pavement, between shows, in passing glances and improvised silhouettes. This season unfolded against a backdrop of recalibration. Many houses leaned into clarity over spectacle, refining archetypes. Tailoring returned with sharper intent, volume was handled with restraint, and references to utility, workwear, and heritage were filtered through a more personal lens. Elsewhere, softness crept in through colour, texture, and gesture, suggesting a quieter confidence shaping contemporary menswear.

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
RICK OWENS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
RICK OWENS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
TAAKK

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
TAAKK

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
KIDSUPER

Captured by Ian Kobylanski, Outside the Shows turns its focus to the characters who animate this in-between space. Individuals assembling their own visual language from fragments of the season: elongated coats, experimental layering, archival gestures, subcultural echoes, and moments of playful disruption.

Shot during the final days of the Paris circuit in late January, the series reflects a city momentarily transformed into a moving archive of ideas. Outside the Shows shows how fashion is lived, negotiated, and reimagined in real time.

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
Michèle Lamy, COMME des GARÇONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
COMME des GARCONS

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
White Mountaineering

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
KIDSUPER

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
AMIRI

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LOUIS VUITTON

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
HERMES

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
LOUIS VUITTON

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
DIOR

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
Pharell Williams, SACAI

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
JOON.J

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
JOON.J

Paris Fashion Week FALL-WINTER 2026
DOUBLET

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(c) IAN KOBYLANSKI

Paris Fashion Week Menswear FW26, January 2026

RIMOWA and Rick Owens

PATINA + POWER
*RIMOWA x Rick Owens Collaboration

written AMANDA MORTENSON

Travel has a new edge. The RIMOWA x Rick Owens collaboration introduces a suitcase that reshapes the language of movement.

The Original Cabin Bronze emerges from the hands of two visionaries, each committed to pushing the limits of material and meaning. At its core, the collaboration fractures the traditional notions of luxury. Rick Owens’s unmistakable aesthetic—dark, unapologetic, and raw—melds with RIMOWA’s century-long mastery of aluminium craftsmanship. The bronzed exterior, achieved through a meticulous pigment process, becomes a surface alive with its own imperfections and evolution.

RIMOWA x RICK OWENS
Michèle Lamy seen by Matteo Carcelli

“I wanted the outside finish to recall a bronze from Giacometti or Serra, and I wanted the interior to feel like the touch of a black leather glove.”

Rick Owens

Inside, Owens alters the language of travel interiors. The fully leather-lined design—a first for RIMOWA—invitates to engage with texture. The aluminium shell merges seamlessly with Rick Owens’s leather, creating a unified tactile experience. Flex Dividers, reimagined in this material, showcase Owens’s meticulous craftsmanship, redefining their function within the space.
The inclusion of a handcrafted luggage tag in coarse, hair-on cowskin disrupts the polished sheen of modernity. It speaks of primal connection, of an object meant to be held and experienced. Owens’s choice of material shifts the narrative from travel as convenience to travel as ritual.

Branding is minimal, emphasizing subtlety and intention. The emblems of both RIMOWA and Rick Owens whisper rather than announce, etched subtly into the surfaces. These marks, understated and deliberate, align with the collection’s ethos: an homage to form and material, unburdened by excess.

Owens’s voice is ever-present. He describes the suitcase as a tribute to the elemental and the eternal: “I wanted the outside finish to recall a bronze from Giacometti or Serra, and I wanted the interior to feel like the touch of a black leather glove.” His vision extends beyond the physical, layering memory and emotion into the object’s very fabric.

The new Original Cabin Bronze commands attention, forcing a reexamination of what it means to carry, to move, to possess. Its patina speaks in textures, rejecting order and expectation. RIMOWA and Rick Owens deliver an object of rebellion.