Paris Haute Couture Week for Fall/Winter 2026-27 ran from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2026. Thirty houses filled 31 slots on the official calendar. The headlines went to Chanel, Dior and two big debuts at Balenciaga and Jean Paul Gaultier. But 18 of those 30 houses were guest members, and that is where most of the new names on the calendar came from. This report covers all of them.
The week, by the numbers
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dates | Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2026 |
| Houses on the official calendar | 30 (31 show slots) |
| Haute Couture Members | 8 |
| Corresponding Members | 4 |
| Guest Members | 18 |
| Opening show | Schiaparelli, Monday 10:00 |
| Closing show in Paris | Adeline André, Thursday 16:00 |
| Couture debuts | Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga, Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier, Manish Malhotra in Paris, Standing Ground on the calendar |
| Off the Paris calendar | Fendi Couture in Rome (Maria Grazia Chiuri), Thursday evening |
Who is on the calendar, and why it matters
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode runs couture week. Only houses that meet its rules can call themselves haute couture members. Everyone else shows by invitation, as a corresponding member or a guest. This season split three ways.
Haute Couture Members (8)
Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Chanel, Alexis Mabille, Stéphane Rolland, Franck Sorbier, Adeline André and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Corresponding Members (4)
Iris van Herpen, Giorgio Armani Privé, Elie Saab and Viktor&Rolf.
Guest Members (18)
Imane Ayissi, Georges Hobeika, Julie de Libran, Rahul Mishra, Standing Ground, ArdAzAei, RVDK Ronald van der Kemp, Germanier, Ashi Studio, Celia Kritharioti, Yuima Nakazato, Peet Dullaert, Balenciaga, Rami Al Ali, Robert Wun, Aelis, Zuhair Murad and Manish Malhotra.
The full schedule, day by day
Monday, July 6
Schiaparelli 10:00, Imane Ayissi 11:00, Iris van Herpen 12:00, Georges Hobeika 13:00, Christian Dior 14:30, Julie de Libran 16:00, Rahul Mishra 17:00, Standing Ground 18:30, ArdAzAei 20:00.
Tuesday, July 7
Chanel 10:00 and 12:00, Alexis Mabille 13:30, Stéphane Rolland 14:30, RVDK Ronald van der Kemp 15:30, Germanier 17:00, Giorgio Armani Privé 18:00 and 19:00, Ashi Studio 20:00.
Wednesday, July 8
Yuima Nakazato 10:00, Balenciaga 11:30, Franck Sorbier 12:30, Robert Wun 13:30, Elie Saab 14:30, Viktor&Rolf 16:00, Jean Paul Gaultier 17:30, Zuhair Murad 18:30, Manish Malhotra 20:00.
Thursday, July 9
Celia Kritharioti 10:30, Peet Dullaert 11:30, Rami Al Ali 13:00, Aelis 14:30, Adeline André 16:00. Fendi Couture showed in Rome that evening.
The shows that drove the conversation
Schiaparelli, Daniel Roseberry
Schiaparelli opened the week with silicone, latex, prosthetics, fish scales and dried flowers, along with inflatable tentacles and moulded, jelly-like bustiers. Karlie Kloss walked her first Schiaparelli show since 2024. Bad Bunny, Emma Corrin and Michelle Yeoh sat front row, and Zendaya wore a finale look, styled by Law Roach, to The Odyssey premiere that night.
Dior, Jonathan Anderson
Anderson's second couture collection for Dior was shown in the gardens of the Musée Rodin and built around the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis. Pleating, knotting and draping made fabric look like paper or plaster. The set stayed up as a public installation, "Grammar of Forms," from July 7 to 12. Sabrina Carpenter sat front row.
Chanel, Matthieu Blazy
Blazy's second couture show for Chanel took over the Grand Palais with a fairy-tale theme, from Jack and the Beanstalk to Goldilocks, sparked by a Perrault book in Gabrielle Chanel's library. Think straw-look scarecrow coats, sheer dresses embroidered with vines and slingbacks painted with peas and beanstalks. Tilda Swinton, Pedro Pascal, Lupita Nyong'o and Teyana Taylor were in the front row.
Balenciaga, Pierpaolo Piccioli
Piccioli's first couture show for the house, its 55th couture collection, was held in the circular garden of the Cité Internationale Universitaire. He opened with a neon coral balloon jacket, reworked archive pieces and took his bow with his artisans, crediting each by look. Gigi Hadid walked, and Anok Yai closed as the bride.
Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink
Lantink's couture debut moved Gaultier's famous cone bra to the hips and added silicone anatomical tops. Fashion Week Daily said the bravado was "something to be celebrated."
Giorgio Armani Privé, Silvana Armani
Silvana Armani's second season leading Privé told one nightfall story across 57 looks, moving from forest green and amaranth to full black in velvet columns and jet beading, shown at Palazzo Armani.
Iris van Herpen
"Sonic Starquakes" included what the house called the world's first plasma dress. Eileen Gu wore the Helix Nebula bodice, made with 15,000 iridescent bubbles.
The names to know beyond the headliners
Most coverage of couture week stops at the big houses. These are the guest and newer names that made the calendar this season, and the ones we will keep tracking.
- Standing Ground. The London label of Irish designer Michael Stewart, winner of the 2024 LVMH Prize Savoir-Faire award, joined the official calendar this season.
- Manish Malhotra. Made his Paris couture debut on Wednesday night.
- Robert Wun. Moved away from his darker themes toward fairy-tale characters and animated motifs. FashionUnited flagged him as a rising talent.
- ArdAzAei and Adeline André. Both returned to the official calendar after limited recent appearances. Iris van Herpen came back as well.
- Germanier. Singled out for its beadwork.
- Alexis Mabille. Showed reversible couture pieces.
- Viktor&Rolf. Built the show around mirrors, pairing a young and an older model in matching looks on a revolving stage.
- Franck Sorbier. Called his collection a journey to the past.
- Imane Ayissi, Rahul Mishra, Yuima Nakazato, Peet Dullaert, Ashi Studio, Aelis, Celia Kritharioti, Rami Al Ali, Julie de Libran, Georges Hobeika, Zuhair Murad and RVDK Ronald van der Kemp rounded out the guest list.
Also during the week, off the official calendar, Levi's presented a 10-piece couture collaboration with Christelle Kocher, artistic director of Maison Lemarié, reworking denim with featherwork and hand embroidery.
What changed on the calendar
- Valentino sat out July. Alessandro Michele's Valentino shows couture once a year, in January.
- Fendi went to Rome. Maria Grazia Chiuri showed her first Fendi Couture collection at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna on July 9, the only couture show of the week outside Paris.
- Absent this season: Gaurav Gupta, Julien Fournié, Phan Huy and Miss Sohee.
Where these facts come from
- FHCM official calendar, Fall/Winter 2026-27
- Modem, fall 2026 couture calendar
- DM Fashionbook, schedule and debuts
- LVMH, Dior Fall/Winter 2026-27 couture
- Coveteur, Balenciaga couture review
- Coveteur, couture week highlights
- The Zoe Report, couture week recap
- Fashion Week Daily, Jean Paul Gaultier
- FashionUnited, Viktor&Rolf and Franck Sorbier
- Modaes, Fendi Couture in Rome