Issey Miyake imagines clothes with a will of their own at Paris Fashion Week

PARIS – Issey Miyake ’s spring 2026 show at Paris Fashion Week posed a question: what if clothing were alive?

Booming electronics inside the Centre Pompidou venue Friday accompanied an opening of crisp monochrome shirts and high-waisted trousers, shoulders drawn upward into a compact line, as if shrugging to the guests.

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The concept arrived quickly and clearly: in this collection the wearer served the garment’s will, not the other way round.

Silhouettes remapped the body — trousers integrated sleeve-like panels at the sides that impacted the model's stance, and single-sheet wraps and supple faux leathers seemed to “grow” around the torso. A netted, scuba-like look packed with toylike objects turned accumulation into profile, as if the clothes themselves consumed