By: Megan Saul
Culture Editor
Within the fashion industry, there are several weeks when well-known fashion designers display their newest collections, called fashion week. With events in New York City, Milan, London, Paris, Berlin, and more, fashion weeks are highly publicized events that draw in celebrities and models from all over the world. Recently, the Paris Fashion Week, known in French as Semaine de la mode de Paris, took place from Mar. 3 to 11. It was a week full of exhibiting new fashion trends and show-stopping looks.
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode runs the fashion industry in France and, therefore, runs the majority of fashion week activities. These events include haute couture and ready-to-wear shows, totaling 72 runway shows. Within Paris, the different events took place at the Louvre Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée d’Orsay, the Grand Palais, and many other notable venues.
This fashion week displayed upcoming fashion for the fall and winter of 2025-2026. The most established brands included Valentino, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Givenchy, Miu Miu, and Saint Laurent. Many fashion shows compete by including shocking scenery, such as Valentino designing their runway to look like a public bathroom. Many celebrities posed with this backdrop, including Jared Leto and Chappell Roan. Louis Vuitton’s show, located at the train station Gare du Nord, presented many sporty, practical pieces that one might wear when traveling. Givenchy’s collection was full of sheer and blazer looks from creative director Sarah Burton’s first lines. The Miu Miu show, put on by Miuccia Prada, displayed streetwear looks that blended modern styles with 1950s fashion. Lastly, Saint Laurent’s runway show closed Paris Fashion Week with a bang. These looks were on the simpler side, highlighting the silhouettes of the clothing garments. Several other smaller brands also presented at Paris Fashion Week, many with hopes of sharing their upcoming lines with the influential people present at the events.
Although Paris Fashion Week is similar to fashion weeks located in other cities, there are a few rules that set it apart. For example, because the modeling industry is known for promoting unhealthy body images that can create unrealistic expectations and pressures for people, specifically women, Paris Fashion Week made a rule in 2015 that all models have to be medically certified as healthy and wear at least a US size zero. In a similar vein, no models can be younger than 16 years old. LVMH and Kering, two large parent companies of many sought-after brands, shared, “The two groups are placing respect for and the dignity of women at the heart of their values: that’s why we’ve always had, in particular, the wellbeing of the models we work with in mind…The wellbeing of our models is a fundamental subject.” These regulations set for this fashion week make the event healthier for both the viewers and the models.
This year’s Paris Fashion Week unveiled many new pieces that presented popular styles and designs. While many of these looks are not currently released, viewers can expect to see them and other similar looks during the upcoming fall and winter months. As this was only one of the many fashion weeks, be sure to tune in for the anticipated fashion week located in London from Jun. 12 through the 15.
(Sources: CNN, Fédération de la Haute Couture, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Vogue)