Paris Fashion Week has long been fashion’s grand stage, but this season it felt particularly charged. Across the city’s historic halls, glass-roofed palaces, and unexpected interiors, designers approached Fall 2026 with a sense that the industry itself is in a moment of transition. Some turned inward, revisiting house codes and heritage with renewed clarity, while others pushed toward new visual languages shaped by culture, craft, and experimentation.
The result was a week defined less by spectacle alone and more by intention. Major houses in the midst of creative evolution—Chanel under Matthieu Blazy, Dior under Jonathan Anderson, and Givenchy under Sarah Burton among them—used the runway not simply as a presentation but as a declaration of direction. Elsewhere, designers like Miuccia Prada, Nicolas Ghesquière, and Rick Owens continued refining deeply personal worlds that remain among fashion’s most distinctive voices.
Paris also reminded the industry why it remains fashion’s intellectual capital. From Junya Watanabe’s radical assemblage to Dries Van Noten’s meditation on identity and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s exuberant new chapter at Loewe, the week balanced craftsmanship with concept, rigor with imagination.
Taken together, the season suggested a city—and an industry—actively rewriting its future while honoring the structures that built it.
Here are The Impression’s Top 10 fashion shows of the Fall 2026 as selected by our Editor-in-Chief, Kenneth Richard.
10 – Junya Watanabe
9 – Rick Owens
8 (tie) – Celine
8 (tie) – Louis Vuitton
7 – Dries Van Noten
6 – Loewe
5 – Miu Miu
4 – Givenchy
3 – Dior
2 – Tom Ford
1 – Chanel
