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The official schedule for Paris Fashion Week is out, including an opening show, a farewell show and a series of second shows.
Overall, the 2026 autumn/winter women’s ready-to-wear calendar will take place from March 2 to March 10, with a total of 68 fashion shows and 31 conferences, while the autumn 2025 season has 71 fashion shows and 37 conferences.
While Spring 2026 saw an unprecedented wave of designer debuts, Fall/Winter 2026 will see just one designer debut in Paris: Antonin Tron of Balmain. The Atlein founder will launch his first collection at the French heritage house on March 4. Another highlight will be Pieter Mulier’s last show at Alaïa before taking on the role of chief creative officer at Versace.
All eyes will also be on the designers’ sophomore womenswear collections, including Jonathan Anderson at Dior (March 3), Mark Thomas at Carven (March 5), Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez at Loewe (March 6), Miguel Castro Freitas at Mugler (also March 6), Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga ’s fashion show (March 3) 7), Jean Paul Gaultier’s Duran Lantink (March 8) and Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy (March 9). Off-White, which debuted at New York Fashion Week last season, will return to Paris Fashion Week.
New arrivals on the official trade show calendar are Ukrainian brand Litkovska and Georgian brand Situationist, while new arrivals on the presentation calendar are Co, Eenk and Time.
Notable absentees include Valentino, which will hold a fashion show in Rome on March 12. The move “marks creative director Alessandro Michele’s homage to Maison Valentino’s origins and enduring heritage,” the brand said in a statement, noting that the brand would rejoin the Paris schedule with subsequent shows.
Kopeni will skip the entire season entirely. Coperni co-founders Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant said in a statement: “In 2019, we chose to work with dealers to support our growth. [But] Coperni no longer has the means to support its growth. Against this backdrop, we have decided not to hold a fashion show this season. ” They added that the choice “reflects [their] Determined to regain complete control over Copernicus’ destiny”.
Meryll Rogge will show her eponymous label during Paris Men’s Fashion Week in June, but not before making her Marni debut in Milan. Sacai skipped the season’s show schedule and instead presented a lookbook from the women’s collection. “March will be a transitional period,” the brand said, noting that Paris Fashion Week will return to June (menswear) and September (womenswear). Other absentees include Maison Margiela, Vetements, Leonard, Casablanca, Christopher Esber and Thom Browne, who will be showing his work at the Fall/Winter 2026 collection presentation in San Francisco. Q Bowl Friday.
