Paloma Wool presented its Fall/Winter 2025 collection during Paris Fashion Week this season, transporting guests to the Lycée Henri-IV library. Individual reading lights illuminated seats, each emblazoned with the initials P.W. on them and paired with a short passage of text from Ursula Kroeber Le Guin's novel, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.Exploring themes of expression, identity and memory, the collection aimed to unpack "who we are and how we relate to the world," through fabric manipul...

Looking at the concept of intimacy, Valentino transported guests to an unlikely venue this Paris Fashion Week season, hosting its Fall/Winter 2025 showcase in... a public toilet. For creative director Alessandro Michele, themes of vulnerability, truth and intimacy collided, providing his starting point for the collection."Is it possible to think of intimacy as an access to a profound core of truth as opposed to the masks that mass society imposes on us?" this season's show notes begin. Michele t...

Paris Fashion Week is back for the Fall/Winter 2025 season with a whopping total of 109 shows and presentations. The industry has its eyes set on big debuts -- from Sarah Burton's Givenchy to Alessandro Michele's next runway collection for Valentino. Elsewhere, Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran of Matières Fécales unveiled the first showcase of their joint fashion label and LOEWE will present a presentation in place of a traditional runway format.Showcases so far include Vaquera's Am...

For 10 years, Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran have been breaking binaries and provoking society's tired expectations of beauty through their platform Fecal Matter. The Montréal-based duo first met in pattern making school and found solace in their shared values and feelings of dissonance with the status quo. Shattering preconceived notions of femininity became their thematic drive -- in each other they found space to harness connection and celebrate the duality that exists within. U...