A historic Paris Fashion Week has wrapped up after 10 days of Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear shows, featuring many new faces and hailed by critics as marking a “return to elegance”.

AFP looks back on the key moments:

– Global makeover –

After a momentous Milan Fashion Week, marked by the absence of the late Giorgio Armani and new creative directors at Gucci and Bottega Veneta, Paris saw a procession of new designers take their first bows at their new houses.

Matthieu Blazy’s first collection for Chanel, Jonathan Anderson’s womenswear debut at Dior or Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first steps at Balenciaga: around 10 labels in Paris were under new direction following a major shake-up.

“The questions of succession and creative renewal arise, and it just so happens that it’s happening everywhere a

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