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Paris Haute Couture Week Fall/Winter 2026 opens tomorrow, Monday, July 6, and runs through Thursday, July 9, bringing together 30 fashion houses across four days in the French capital.
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode oversees the calendar, which includes Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Jean Paul Gaultier and Indian couturier Manish Malhotra. Pierpaolo Piccioli and Duran Lantink present their first couture collections for their respective houses this week. Giorgio Armani Privé returns too, its first show since the founder’s death last year.
Schiaparelli kicks off proceedings at 10 am on Monday, followed by Imane Ayissi at 11 am and Iris Van Herpen at noon. Georges Hobeika takes the 1 pm slot, then Christian Dior holds its customary 2:30 pm position. Julie de Libran shows at 4 pm, ahead of Rahul Mishra at 5 pm. Standing Ground joins the official calendar for the first time at 6:30 pm, a London label founded by Irish designer Michael Stewart, who won the Savoir Faire Award at the 2024 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. Ardazaei closes Monday at 8 pm. One presentation sits outside the official listings altogether: graduates of the Fashion Design Institut show their work at Galerie Bourbon on Sunday, July 5, the day before the calendar formally begins.
Tuesday belongs to Chanel, where Matthieu Blazy shows his second Haute Couture collection across two slots, at 10 am and noon. Alexis Mabille follows at 1:30 pm. Stéphane Rolland takes his presentation to L’Olympia at 2:30 pm for the third year running, staged in partnership with the Fondation des Hôpitaux. RVDK Ronald van der Kemp shows at 3:30 pm, Germanier at 5 pm, and Ashi Studio closes the day at 8 pm. Giorgio Armani Privé holds two slots in between, at 6 pm and 7 pm; it’s its first couture appearance since Giorgio Armani died in September 2025.
Wednesday carries the heaviest schedule and the most anticipation. Yuima Nakazato opens at 10 am. Pierpaolo Piccioli steps onto the Balenciaga runway at 11:30 am. It is his first couture show since joining the house in 2025 and his first collection anywhere since leaving Valentino the year before. Franck Sorbier is scheduled for 12:30 pm, followed by Robert Wun at 1:30 pm, Elie Saab at 2:30 pm and Viktor&Rolf at 4 pm. Duran Lantink presents his debut couture collection for Jean Paul Gaultier at 5:30 pm.
Zuhair Murad shows at 6:30 pm. Manish Malhotra closes the evening at 8 pm, becoming the first Indian designer to present on the official Paris Haute Couture calendar. He launched his namesake label in 2005 and has dressed Bollywood’s biggest names for three decades. At this year’s Met Gala, he dressed actor Camila Mendes and filmmaker Karan Johar.
Celia Kritharioti opens Thursday at 10 am. Peet Dullaert follows at 11:30 am, Rami Al Ali at 1 pm and Aelis at 2:30 pm. Adeline André closes the week at 4 pm, a house founded by its namesake designer in 1983 that makes pieces to measure for private clients only. Fendi shows the same evening, but in Rome instead of Paris. Maria Grazia Chiuri, now chief creative officer at the Roman house, presents the collection herself.
A handful of names are missing from this edition. Valentino no longer shows in July at all; under creative director Alessandro Michele, the house moved its couture presentation to January only. Giambattista Valli sits out too, after regaining full control of his own label earlier this year. Julien Fournié, Gaurav Gupta, Miss Sohee and Phan Huy, each on the January calendar, are absent from July as well.
Off the official runway schedule, stylist Muriel Piaser opens a curated presentation called the Precious Room at the Palais Vivienne on Tuesday and Wednesday. The covered passage in the second arrondissement has hosted the show before and sits apart from the FHCM’s main venues.
Thirty official houses are confirmed for July, up from 29 in January. The Fédération has not explained the increase, though the summer edition has out-drawn its winter counterpart for several seasons running. Accreditation remains open until the week begins.
Malhotra’s presence follows a broader shift among European federations toward designers working outside the Paris-Milan axis. The timing overlaps with India’s textile sector taking centre stage at Bharat Tex in New Delhi this month, a separate trade event with its own calendar and delegates.
Couture rarely draws the retail attention that ready-to-wear seasons command. Only a handful of clients commission the pieces shown each season, and prices for a single gown can run into six figures.
The designation carries a formal definition under French law. “Haute couture” has been a legally protected term since January 23, 1945, and each house on the calendar must be approved annually by a commission under the Ministry of Industry. Rules require a Paris atelier, handmade garments for individual clients, and new collections each season.
The full schedule remains provisional, according to the Fédération, and organisers have noted that adjustments are possible before the first models take to the runway tomorrow morning.
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