The Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026 closed with a clear message: fashion is no longer just about impressing — it’s about communicating. Designers don’t just create clothes, they build visions.
Maison Margiela, with Glenn Martens, brought a mutating couture to the runway, where bodies deform, materials layer, and every silhouette seems born from a biological transformation. It’s an aesthetic that defies stillness, standing at the crossroads between past and post-human.
At Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink made his official debut as creative director with radical cuts, recycling elevated to a political statement, and fluid, playful eroticism. His Gaultier is reinvented — keeping the brand’s original irreverence but updated with a conscious and contemporary mindset.
Lacoste, under Pelagia Kolotouros, continues its evolution with coherence: the sportswear brand lightens up, layers, and urbanizes. Reinvented polos, elegant technical fabrics, relaxed volumes. An accessible minimalism that convinces through authenticity.
More raw and edgy is Ottolinger’s vision, presenting a broken and powerful femininity made of sudden cuts, treated fabrics, and ever-tense shapes. The collection reflects the survival spirit of new generations — caught between instability and freedom.
At Alexander McQueen, Seán McGirr pursues his personal path, moving further away from the brand’s romantic and gothic codes. SS26 is tough, angular, industrial: clothes as modern armor, rigid structures, sculpted materials. A courageous reinterpretation, still in the making but firmly rejecting nostalgia.
Finally, Coperni sets aside spectacle and returns to essentials: functional design, clean lines, tech details. The clothes speak in the silence of form, not the shout of concept. It’s a new, more mature balance where technology and desire meet intelligently.
While waiting for the Spring/Summer 2026 collections to arrive, Fall/Winter 2025 offerings are already available in our boutiques and on michelefranzesemoda.com — garments designed to face the present, without the need for superstructures. Because today, fashion is not just to be seen. It’s to be lived.
