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Couture

The ateliers, the highest tier, and the economics of clothes nobody needs.

Thirty houses, two first collections, and a couture week that was mostly about succession

Paris haute couture ran July 6 to 9 with Pierpaolo Piccioli's Balenciaga debut and Duran Lantink's at Jean Paul Gaultier, alongside second outings from Blazy and Anderson. The clothes were sculptural. The subject was handover.

By Célia Megias · July 13, 2026 · 3 min read

Couture

Piccioli brought ruffles and whole looks of feathers to a house built on severity

His first Balenciaga couture, shown in the July week, answered the question everyone had about the appointment: he was not going to imitate what the house had been for the previous decade.

By Nar Cissa · July 10, 2026 · 3 min read