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Paris Fashion Week Men's January 2026: What the provisional schedule reveals

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) has just released its provisional schedule for Paris Fashion Week Men's January 2026. Paris Fashion Week Men's will take place from January 20 to 25, 2026. It will showcase the autumn/winter 2026/2027 menswear collections. The provisional line-up includes 35 shows and 32 presentations,...

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Michael Rider unveils a debut bourgeois and rock collection at Celine

Paris - A new chapter opens at Celine. American designer Michael Rider, successor to Hedi Slimane, unveiled his first collection on Sunday in Paris. The spring wardrobe had chic, bourgeois accents tinged with a rock touch. “Returning to Celine in a changed world has been a deeply moving experience for me. It has also been an immense joy,” said...

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SS26: Best selling trends and talents to follow, according to three Parisian showrooms

During Paris Fashion Week Men’s, FashionUnited met with three commercial agents, Break.Fast, Likewise and Run, each hosting showrooms over the course of the event. Here is an overview of what is trending for the spring/summer 2026 season and which brands to look out for. Alina Zaporozcenko, founder of Break.Fast Break.Fast was founded in 2019,...

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New stories and clear statements at Paris Fashion Week Men's

While the mood in Milan seemed subdued, designers in the French capital went all out, undeterred by the ongoing consumer slump. A notable trend was the convergence of streetwear and classic menswear. Dreamers One example is the collection by Emeric Tchatchoua, creative director of the streetwear brand 3.Paradis. The collection showcased casual...

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PFW: Hermès imagines urban summer, KidSuper creates a fairytale and Ziggy Chen lightens with linen

Paris – Faced with the sweltering heat in Europe, French fashion house Hermès proposed a lightweight style for men spending summer in the city on Saturday; trousers were favoured over shorts, with clever designs to combat the heat. Trousers and a jacket made of finely braided leather strips, reminiscent of a summer chair, were a particular...

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Salvadoran President accuses Paris Fashion Week of ‘glorifying criminals’

San Salvador – Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, criticised Paris Fashion Week on Sunday for "glorifying criminals", following a show which depicted, as a protest, prisoners held in El Salvador’s maximum-security mega-prison. Mexican-born, US designer Willy Chavarria presented a show in Paris on Friday in which several tattooed men knelt,...

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Julian Klausner revisits classics for Dries Van Noten; CamperLab debuts in Paris

Paris - On Thursday, during Paris Fashion Week, Belgian designer Julian Klausner presented his first menswear show for Dries Van Noten, a dazzling SS26 collection, boldly revisiting menswear classics. Meanwhile, Spanish brand CamperLab, the experimental offshoot of Spanish footwear brand Camper, made its debut at the Parisian event with a simple...

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Paris Fashion Week Men's SS26: What to look out for

Paris - Men’s Fashion Week returns to Paris on Tuesday with highly anticipated highlights: Saint Laurent is back on the official calendar and, most notably, Jonathan Anderson makes his debut at Dior. After a turbulent start to the year with numerous changes in artistic direction, this spring/summer 2026 (SS26) season highlights the upheavals in...

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Paris Fashion Week to go digital due to Covid-19

The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has confirmed that Paris Men’s Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week will still go ahead, however, there will be no invited guests this season due to Covid-19 restrictions in the country. In an e-mail to FashionUnited, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode explained that all shows and...

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Gap and Telfar announce collab at Paris Fashion Week Men’s

American fashion and lifestyle brand Gap and unisex brand Telfar are launching a collaboration. The announcement was made during a Paris Fashion Week Men’s party hosted by Telfar at its multi-level Tronchet store in the French capital - a party that also celebrated the Gen-Z centric brand's autumn-winter 2020 collection which debuted at Pitti...

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Comme des Garcons accused of racism in AW20 menswear show

Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garcons was at the centre of a cultural appropriation row Sunday after it sent out white models in what appeared to be cornrow wigs at its Paris men's fashion week show. The self-appointed fashion watchdog Diet Prada -- which has a record of pulling up labels on racial insensitivity including the notorious Gucci...

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British designers dominating final day of men's show in the French capital

Eels were once a staple dish for working-class Londoners. Now dandies everywhere will be queueing up to wear them after Dunhill's Paris men's fashion week show Sunday went off the scales. Mark Weston -- who is known for his cleverly engineered clothes -- lit up the catwalk with the ingeniously chic way he used the skin of the sea's most slithery...