There’s something especially electric about Paris when the stakes are this high. This season’s Top 15 reflects a rare moment of convergence — one in which legacy houses, new creative leads, and rising independents were all working to reframe the runway. It was a season thick with tension, ambition, and revelation. And while we typically reserve this space for a Top 10, it felt reductive to limit the conversation. Paris didn’t just deliver great shows — it delivered a reckoning on what it means to create in fashion today.
Much of that energy came from the sheer weight of the debuts. Jonathan Anderson’s first womenswear outing for Dior parsed through the house’s lineage with surgical precision, weaving Galliano’s sensuality, Raf Simons’ severity, and Christian Dior’s architectural femininity into a layered starting point. Sarah Burton returned with a powerful proposal for Givenchy, bringing restraint and reverence to the house’s founder, and Matthieu Blazy arrived at Chanel with a quiet, formalist debut — one that asked us to look slowly and feel deeply.
In a season this rich, our goal wasn’t to chase buzz or shock value. It was to spotlight designers who brought clarity to their point of view — whether through risk, refinement, or reinvention. From household names to houses still in the making, these are the collections that pushed the conversation forward.
15 – Mugler
14 – Thom Browne
13 – Valentino
12 – McQueen
11 – Saint Laurent
10 – Miu Miu
9 – Schiaparelli
8 – Alaïa
7 – Loewe
6 – Balenciaga
5 – Louis Vuitton
4 – Dries Van Noten
3 – Chanel
2 – Givenchy
1 – Christian Dior
