The primary day of the Fall/Winter 2026 version dominated by Louis Vuitton movie star designer Pharrell Williams
Males’s Style Week in Paris. Photograph: file
PARIS:
Males’s Style Week kicked off in Paris on Tuesday beneath the shadow of Italian designer Valentino Garavani’s dying, with most of the main lights within the French capital remembering the late Haute Couture maestro.
The primary day of the boys’s Fall/Winter 2026 version in Paris is ready to be dominated by the newest mega-production from Louis Vuitton’s movie star designer Pharrell Williams.
Louis Vuitton proprietor Bernard Arnault was amongst many within the design world to pay tribute to Valentino’s “refined, radiant and opulent style” after his dying aged 93 on Monday.
Williams will unveil his assortment at Louis Vuitton’s glitzy gallery house in western Paris on the finish of day one, which additionally featured a debut present by French newcomer designer Jeanne Friot.
The younger couturier informed AFP it was “fairly an uncommon pleasure and stress” to participate.
The six days of Males’s Style Week, which can assist set the tendencies for the tip of the yr, may even characteristic a remaining farewell for Veronique Nichanian, who’s stepping down at Hermes after 37 years of designing their males’s collections.
The 71-year-old Parisian — one of many few girls designing in menswear — will depart behind a model in super monetary form with a picture of timeless, refined masculinity.
Her successor, London designer Grace Wales Bonner, who’s of English and Jamaican heritage, represents a generational and stylistic shift for the traditional family-run French home.
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Many fashionistas will probably be casting an eye fixed on the Christian Louboutin present on day two the place Jaden Smith — son of US rapper-actor Will Smith — will current his debut assortment. The mannequin and musician, 27, was unveiled because the inventive director of the famed French model final September by founder Louboutin, who seems to be making ready at hand over the reins to the Gen Z trendsetter.
The selection is seen as a daring guess on comparatively inexperienced youth by the veteran maker of red-soled stilettos, whose ready-to-wear menswear and equipment are estimated by analysts to account for a few quarter of his gross sales.
Additionally on Wednesday, much-hyped Dior designer Jonathan Anderson will unveil his second Homme assortment, having made his debut in June final yr with a broadly praised unisex present. However the 41-year-old’s womenswear assortment in September did not persuade everybody, and a few observers count on him to place a extra decisive mark on Dior and cement the brand new id he is begun sketching out.
“There’s loads of anticipation,” Alice Feillard, males’s shopping for director at Paris division retailer Galeries Lafayette, stated.
