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A Closer Look at Five Standout Collections From the Paris Shows

From left Models Charlie Jones and Stella Hanan try Jonathan Andersons Dior on for size select Dior boutiques. Fashion...
From left: Models Charlie Jones and Stella Hanan try Jonathan Anderson’s Dior on for size; select Dior boutiques. Fashion Editor: Amanda Harlech.Photographed by Mikael Jansson. Vogue, December 2025.
Can you feel a brand-new day? In a season stacked with designer debuts, Paris’s standout collections basked in a spirit of joyous possibility.

Dior

With Jonathan Anderson at its helm, a raucous mix of textures and periods—shot through with infectious whimsy—defined the new look at Dior.

Hanan and models Angelina Kendall and Awar Odhiang don fresh twists on the classic Bar suit select Dior boutiques.

Hanan and models Angelina Kendall and Awar Odhiang don fresh twists on the classic Bar suit; select Dior boutiques.

Model Ella McCutcheon wears a nipped tucked and draped Dior dress select Dior boutiques.

Model Ella McCutcheon wears a nipped, tucked, and draped Dior dress; select Dior boutiques.

Jones gets wonderfully turned around in a Dior top and skirt select Dior boutiques.

Jones gets wonderfully turned around in a Dior top and skirt; select Dior boutiques.

Loewe

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez made their vigorously vibrant, ingeniously crafty debut at the Spanish fashion house this fall, embracing a graphic sense of dimension.

From left Models Ajus Samuel Kendall and Fei Fei Sun wear a suite of jaunty leather minidresses from Loewe loewe.com....

From left: Models Ajus Samuel, Kendall, and Fei Fei Sun wear a suite of jaunty leather minidresses from Loewe; loewe.com. Bvlgari High Jewelry earrings; bulgari.com.

Tenney and Kendall go long and get loose in McCollough and Hernandezs Loewe loewe.com.

Tenney and Kendall go long and get loose in McCollough and Hernandez’s Loewe; loewe.com.

Samuel wears a Loewe dress loewe.com. Bvlgari ring bulgari.com.

Samuel wears a Loewe dress; loewe.com. Bvlgari ring; bulgari.com.

Maison Margiela

Deconstructed separates, unconventional materials, and other house signatures thoughtfully revisited and artfully reworked defined Glenn Martens’s second collection for Maison Margiela.

Model Alex Consani wears a top of strewn bijoux covered in plastic a draped sequin skirt and black wool trousers...

Model Alex Consani wears a top of strewn bijoux covered in plastic, a draped sequin skirt, and black wool trousers; maisonmargiela.com.

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Sun wears a black silk dress with a tape-made bustier. Consani wears a white silk dress with flower ruffles. Both at maisonmargiela.com.

Celine

For his sophomore collection as artistic director of Celine, Michael Rider showed a panoply of appealing silhouettes, spanning boxy pullovers with breezy pleated trousers and high-femme, high-necked ultra-minidresses.

McCutcheon Kendall and Sun all wear Celine dresses celine.com.

McCutcheon, Kendall, and Sun all wear Celine dresses; celine.com.

Model Lulu Tenney is on a high in Riders elevated tailoring celine.com

Model Lulu Tenney is on a high in Rider’s elevated tailoring; celine.com

Hanan and McCutcheon go out on a limb in Riders ditsy printed minidresses celine.com.

Hanan and McCutcheon go out on a limb in Rider’s ditsy printed minidresses; celine.com.

Balenciaga

The mood board for Balenciaga’s spring 2026 collection—Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first at the Spanish-born, Paris-based maison—included a quotation from Cristóbal Balenciaga himself, describing the work of a good couturier as melding the skills and sensibilities of an architect, a sculptor, a painter, a musician, and a philosopher. Piccioli’s work managed a similarly soulful agreement of elements.

Graceful in its shape delicate in its coloring and striking in its balance between evocation and provocation Kendalls...

Graceful in its shape, delicate in its coloring, and striking in its balance between evocation and provocation, Kendall’s dress hits just the right note; balenciaga.com.

Jones Hanan model Awar Odhiang model Jill Kortleve and Consani throw fanciful shapes in Picciolis Balenciaga balenciaga.com.

Jones, Hanan, model Awar Odhiang, model Jill Kortleve, and Consani throw fanciful shapes in Piccioli’s Balenciaga; balenciaga.com.

In this story: hair, Eugene Souleiman; makeup, Karin Westerlund; manicurist, Magda S; tailor, Carole Savaton.

Produced by Lola Production. Set Design: Julia Wagner. Movement Director: Eric Christison.