After seeing New York host luxury fashion’s Cruise 2027 collections, it’s time to head back to Paris. The Fall/Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture calendar is out, which means the city is once again preparing for four days of hand-sewn gowns, painstaking embroidery, pitch-black Mercedes vans, heatwaves, and very little sleep. From July 6 to 9, Paris will fill with couture clients, editors running on espresso and deadlines, photographers camping outside show venues in search of a street-style moment, and stylists navigating cobblestones with suitcases that appear to violate several laws of physics. The calendar is the easy part, even when it includes 30 houses.
You’d think Paris would double as a getaway once couture week ends. For some, it might. Except, of course, for those catching a flight to Rome on the final evening just to see what Maria Grazia Chiuri thinks Fendi’s couture should look like. Italy, once again, does not align with Paris’ timing. Meanwhile Valentino’s Alessandro Michele likes his couture season cold, preferably in January. Maison Margiela is also missing from the schedule, though Glenn Martens’ previous collection is still fresh in the industry’s overstimulated memory. At least Martin Margiela’s upcoming auction on July 9 offers something to anchor the week, if only for a moment.
Other names missing from the lineup include Phan Huy, Gaurav Gupta, and Miss Sohee. Iris van Herpen, a July regular, returns with her usual showing, as do the mainstays: Elie Saab, Viktor & Rolf, and Julie de Libran. Manish Malhotra, whose Met Gala looks for Karan Johar and himself landed on our best-dressed list, will also show as a guest house this season. On the more closely watched end of the calendar, Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy and Dior’s Jonathan Anderson remain the designers everyone is paying attention to right now, with couture week adding another layer of scrutiny. We’ll be watching them, alongside Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry (as always), Jean Paul Gaultier’s Duran Lantink, presenting his first couture collection for the house, and Balenciaga’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, who follows a similar debut trajectory.
