Paris · The SeasonOctober 20, 2026
FASHION & MODEL
The people and machinery of fashion.
The Runway

The Runway

Shows, staging, the walk itself, and the people who make it happen.

After Dries

Dries Van Noten designed for 38 years, sold control to Puig, and then did the rarest thing in fashion: he left on schedule, and handed his house to the man who had been sitting beside him.
By Marcus Vale · 2026-10-18
A Dries Van Noten ensemble of 2015-16 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: an iridescent sequinned top and a long jacquard skirt.
An ensemble from autumn winter 2015-16 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: a top embroidered with sequins and paillettes like jewel beetle wings over a jacquard skirt. Print, embroidery and unlikely colour were the house's whole vocabulary for four decades.

The Dressers of Paris

Ninety seconds per look, in the dark, with someone else's hands. The backstage crew that executes the lightning changes, and why the best are booked like talent.
By Juliette Moreau · 2026-09-29
the-dressers-of-paris lede photograph.
Ninety seconds per look, in the dark, with someone else's hands. The change is a study in practiced calm that the audience never sees.

The Pit

Below the front row, shoulder to shoulder, the runway photographers shoot the same fifteen minutes the audience watches. Position, timing, and the craft of the season's defining image.
By David Okafor · 2026-09-29
the-pit lede photograph.
Shoulder to shoulder at the end of the runway: the pit holds a few square feet of floor each and the responsibility of the season's defining image.

The Show Package

Every season, every agency sends every house the same documents: digitals, measurements, the comp card. How the booking papers work and what they signal.
By Theo Almeida · 2026-09-29
the-show-package lede photograph.
The paperwork walks before the model does. Digitals, measurements, the comp card: the season's argument for why this face belongs on that runway.

The Silver Cast

Olivia Colman walked Miu Miu at 52 with her natural gray hair, and Chanel cast models of every age and hair color. On the Paris runways, silver stopped being a statement and became a choice.
By Theo Almeida · 2026-10-12
Olivia Colman photographed at the Empire of Light gala, London, October 2022.
Olivia Colman in 2022, in the dark pixie era. Four years later she walked the Miu Miu runway with long silver hair, and the industry noticed what it had been missing.