Sixty-eight houses are registered on the official calendar (New window) of Paris Fashion Week (PFW) men’s fall-winter 2025-2026. From Tuesday January 21 to Sunday January 26, 38 parades and 30 presentations in a transfer window context for artistic directors.
Among the big names in luxury, Louis Vuitton shows on the first day with the fourth collection of Pharrell Williams, Dior Homme and Hermès are there, like the Japanese houses Kenzo, Yōji Yamamoto and Issey Miyakel, who will unveil his IM line Men. We note on the podiums the first times of 3.Paradis, SSDaley and Willy Chavarria (in fashion shows) and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Les Fleurs Studio and Post Archive Faction (in presentations). It is also the return of the houses Egonlab, Jacquemus, Lanvin and Paul Smith (in fashion shows) and Agnès b., Lagos Space Program and Steven Passaro (in presentations).
Among those absent is Givenchy, whose new artistic director Sarah Burton, appointed in September, is reserving her first collection for Women’s Fashion Week in March, but also the new artistic director of Valentino, Alessandro Michele, who will show during high fashion week. sewing.
Tradition and technology at Issey Miyake
This season, the Japanese house Issey Miyake will unveil its IM Men line. Dince 2018, the Japanese designer has focused on his Homme plissé line, more suited to today’s lifestyle than his main Issey Miyake Men line. LThe IM Men team is led by three members of the Miyake Design Studio: Sen Kawahara (design/engineering), Yuki Itakura (design/engineering) and Nobutaka Kobayashi (textile design/engineering) who reinvent the essence of clothing by revisiting both shape and structure in an approach combining design and engineering.
The line, created in 2019 under the direction of Mr. Miyake, strives to design clothing that embody a synergy between design and engineering. She explores innovative approaches in the design of clothing in harmony with the human body, drawing inspiration from the concept “a piece of cloth”.
Following the IM Men fashion show, presented for the first time on January 23 at Paris Fashion Week fall-winter 2025/2026 (broadcast live on their official website and on the IM Men Instagram page), the brand will be revealed during ‘an exhibition entitled Fly with IM Menof January 24 to 26, at the Cordeliers Refectory. It will highlight unique pieces and the materials and processes used for their creation. The installation, designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, is inspired by a dialogue between traditional Japanese craftsmanship and modern technology.
Peter Copping chez Lanvin
Briton Peter Copping was named artistic director of Lanvin last June, taking the reins in September for the men’s and women’s collections. The oldest active French fashion house announced in spring 2023 that it was going to focus on leather goods and accessories: it then parted ways with its artistic director Bruno Sialelli, who was not replaced for more than a year.
Peter Copping, born in 1967, spent with Nina Ricci (2009-2014) and Oscar de la Renta in New York (2014-2016), trained at Central Saint Martins in London and cut his teeth with Sonia Rykiel. He then worked for a decade at Louis Vuitton alongside Marc Jacobs, as head of women’s fashion, Lanvin details in its announcement. In New York, it was Oscar de la Renta himself who chose him as his successor before his disappearance in October 2014.
-Always young creators
In parallel with the official calendar is being held, as usual, the Sphere show (from January 22 to 26 at the Palais de Tokyo) which, since January 2020, provides support to young brands selected for their creativity and their potential for international development.
This season, the Sphere showroom brings together the brands Bianca Saunders, winner of the Andam Prize in 2021, Cachi (lwinner of the AMI x IFM Entrepreneurship Prize in 2023), CREOLE, La Cage (finalist for the 39th Hyères International Fashion Festival in 2024)Lagos Space Program, Lazoschmidl, Les Fleurs Studio and Ouest Paris.
The day after this men’s fashion week, Patou will unveil its women’s ready-to-wear collection on January 26, the day of the launch of spring-summer 2025 haute couture week.
Saint Laurent: drawings and photos at auction
Paris is buzzing with events, including the Sotheby’s online sale which will begin on the first day of PFW until January 31. Titled Yves Saint Laurent – Pierre Bergé: an intimate collectionit will allow you to discover the intimacy of the visionary couturier through a selection of art objects, photographs and drawings by the couturier. These personal memories which nourished his creative universe will structure the sale in three chapters: works from the Kugel gallery, a series of photographs taken by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol or Helmut Newton, and finally, a previously unpublished set of more than 20 drawings by Yves Saint Laurent celebrating the male nude.
“The Free Fashion Industry, Challenges and Transformations” by Caroline Ardelet Massieu
The most passionate can also look at this work by Caroline Ardelet Massieu, professor of marketing and consumer behavior at the French Fashion Institute. France is one of the leading clothing consumer countries in Europe and in the world. The fashion sector is a contributor to GDP and employment. France is as recognized around the world for its prestigious brands as for its artisans and small creators and its know-how.
However, this industry is criticized for its negative impact on the economy, environment and society. International brands are accused of pushing towards overconsumption by imposing rapid renewal of collections at very low prices and taking advantage of less restrictive working conditions in certain countries. On average, a person buys 40% more clothes than fifteen years ago and keeps them for half as long. Global clothing production has exceeded 100 billion pieces per year, representing 4% to 5% of global CO2 emissions.
Fruit of the work of a collective of teachers from the French Fashion Institute and illustrated with examples and interviews, this book highlights the complexity and contradictions of the fashion industry, while presenting the issues and transformations that it must face in order to understand and master the new business models of a rapidly changing sector.
