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Beneath the soaring glass dome of the Grand Palais, Chanel unveiled a pale pink dreamscape punctuated by oversized toadstools, setting the stage for Matthieu Blazy's highly anticipated couture debut. Rather than leaning into the monumental weight of Chanel’s legacy, Blazy chose poetry over pressure, presenting a collection built on lightness, fantasy, and a quietly subversive sense of wonder. The setting evoked a modern fairy tale, part psychedelic woodland, part couture reverie, where fashion became an antidote to excess and expectation.

Chanel SS26 Haute Couture Collection: Matthieu Blazy and the Poetry of Lightness

The Inclover Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture collection unfolded as a poetic meditation on lightness, renewal, and artisanal precision. Rooted in couture tradition yet guided by a contemporary sensibility, the presentation celebrated craftsmanship through silhouettes that felt deliberate, fluid, and quietly expressive.

Inclover Spring Summer 2026: The Art of Quiet Couture

For Fall/Winter 2026–27, Carolina Castiglioni advances Plan C’s distinct design vocabulary with a collection that reconsiders the notion of “inflation” not as excess but as intention. Volume becomes a tool of expression, measured, architectural, and purposeful, used to explore surface, proportion, and tactility while remaining anchored in the brand’s signature balance of pragmatism and femininity.

Plan C Fall Winter 2026–27 Collection: The Art of Considered Volume

Manish Malhotra delivered a luminous and culturally charged finale to Dubai Fashion Week with his Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture collection, The India Story: Inaya 2026, presented on February 6 at the Dubai Design District. The showcase unfolded as a confident statement of modern Indian couture, where time-honoured craftsmanship was translated into a globally fluent runway narrative, reaffirming Malhotra’s position as a bridge between heritage and international glamour.

Manish Malhotra SS26 Haute Couture Collection: Inaya and the Global Language of Indian Opulence

Ziad Nakad’s Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture lookbook presents a distilled vision of contemporary glamour, reaffirming the designer’s command of silhouette, surface, and spectacle. Rather than relying on theatrical runway excess, the collection unfolds through a controlled visual narrative that allows craftsmanship and proportion to take center stage, positioning couture as an exercise in refinement rather than provocation.

Ziad Nakad SS26 Haute Couture Collection: A Study in Radiant Precision

Svitlana Bevza’s Fall Winter 2026–2027 lookbook arrives as a quiet meditation on presence, shaped during her third pregnancy and developed largely through remote collaboration. Rather than positioning these circumstances as overt narrative, the collection absorbs them subtly, allowing themes of distance, motherhood, and lived reality to imbue the clothes with emotional intelligence rather than sentimentality. The result feels less like a seasonal proclamation and more like a wardrobe calibrated to real life.