Triumphant launch for Willy Chavarria in Paris, with the speech of Bishop Mariann Budde as the highlight

On Friday evening, Mexican-American creator Willy Chavarria released a recording of US Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon calling on President Trump to show “compassion” to the LGBTQI+ community, marking his sensational stage debut Parisian.

The fashion show, probably the most anticipated of the men’s season in France, earned thunderous applause for the designer, greeted by a dense audience inside the American Cathedral in Paris, on Avenue George V. An Episcopalian church , like the Bishop of Washington.

This fall-winter 2025 collection perfectly respects the Chavarria DNA – Latino/a and Hispanic heroines and heroes, embodied by her many comrades and colleagues, or by faces discovered during a wild three-day casting in Paris.

But Willy’s style reaches a new level of refinement, with careful cuts and finishes made in Italy, for a fabulous reinterpretation of the Latin fashion zazou costume, dandy wardrobe and gangster sportswear.

“It’s an honor to be in Paris, where so many legendary designers presented their collections. But I think I’m ready. The message of human dignity, equality, the importance of coming together to preserve our rights as immigrants, LGBT people, women… all of this has never been more essential. Our community is under attack today,” Willy explained.

Bishop Budde’s speech left him in tears, he added, and all of his models “experienced, in one way or another” what the nun spoke of.

The decor chosen by Willy Chavarria for his parade represented a red and flowery altar, with a saint in his wooden box in the center. And the clothes artfully mixed the sacred and the profane, with a good dose of raw sexuality.

The women are hot as embers, in pencil skirts, strict jackets and stiletto heels. One of them wore a fishy red bodysuit bearing the “Diablo” logo.

The men, for their part, display their power in blazers with wide shoulders, billowing pants and shirts with maxi collars. Chavarria, who grew up in a family of poor Mexican immigrants, farm workers in central California, also plays on the Tex Mex vibe – with cowboy hats adorned with flowers. He finally resurrects the Parisian DNA with two guys in oversized four-pocket jackets, in Chanel-style curly tweed.

And while the President of the United States tried this week to establish by decree the existence of only two sexes, it was great to see the fabulous transgender DJ Honey Dijon proudly displaying herself in a red denim look full of ardor. To once again defend the rights of trans people.

We end with a series of sporty leather jackets and elongated football shorts, a collab with Adidas presented by a few burly muchachos, with rippling muscles literally covered in tattoos.

It was the highlight of the Paris men’s season to that point, and a welcome reminder that fashion shouldn’t just produce clothes.

“I have the feeling of having something very unique to say, something that is missing. I am therefore very happy to express it in Paris. There’s something missing in fashion, in general. A willingness to take risks, and to be on the right side of history,” concluded Willy.

The designer, who always speaks in a soft voice, stood in the sacristy of the cathedral, wearing a black T-shirt crossed out with the slogan: “How we love is who we are” (our way of loving says who we are). we are).