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Paris Women’s Fashion Week

Matthieu Blazy Opens His Own Galaxy in Chanel’s Universe

Beneath the legendary glass dome of the Grand Palais, transformed into a shimmering galaxy of stars and dreams, Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy wrote a new chapter in the story of Chanel. For his first collection as the house’s creative director, unveiled during Paris Fashion Week, Blazy delivered a show of striking contrasts — between heritage and daring, between the memory of Gabrielle Chanel and the pulsating rhythm of modernity.

Paris Women’s Fashion Week | Pierpaolo Piccioli Embraces the Past at Balenciaga

Between memory and modernity, Pierpaolo Piccioli unveils at Balenciaga a debut collection that reconciles opposites: Cristóbal’s architectural legacy, Demna’s provocation, and his own vision of serene romanticism. In the hushed stillness of a Parisian runway, the Italian designer gives the house a new heartbeat — one that beats between rigor and tenderness.

Paris Women’s Fashion Week | Jonathan Anderson Opens a Bold New Era at Dior

The Jardin des Tuileries was transformed into a true dreamscape to host Jonathan Anderson’s first women’s show for Dior. Anticipated as one of the highlights of the Spring-Summer 2026 Fashion Week, the presentation was not merely a showcase of ready-to-wear pieces, but a bold aesthetic statement: a dialogue between memory and modernity, heritage and audacity.

Paris Women’s Fashion Week | Louis Vuitton at the Louvre: Elegance Betting on the Serenity of Body and Soul!

The shows of Paris Fashion Week continue to unveil, one after another, their layers of creativity, bringing us back to the eternal question: what to wear, and for whom? On the second day of the presentations, Tuesday evening, Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of Louis Vuitton, transformed the historic summer apartments of Queen Anne of Austria within the Louvre palace into an intimate space imbued with serenity. There, amidst the 17th-century ornamentation and the golden light caressing the restored walls, was...

Cinema | Asghar Farhadi is Shooting a New Film in Paris, with Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, a major figure in contemporary cinema and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature (A Separation, 2012; The Salesman, 2017), is currently filming his new feature in Paris. Entitled Parallel Tales, the film, whose production began on September 8, 2025, is already shaping up to be one of the year’s most highly anticipated projects.

Cinema | Charlotte Gainsbourg Faces the Pyre of the New Inquisitors

There had to be a culprit. And as always, the new commissioners of virtue have found their scapegoat: Charlotte Gainsbourg. She is accused not of acting badly, not of betraying cinema, but of refusing to lay down her arms in the ideological cloakroom. She is forbidden from wearing the lawyer’s robe of Gisèle Halimi because she has not signed the “pure ones’” manifesto on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here is the new rule: only those who believe may act, only those...

Cinema | Muganga, the man who heals women

“Muganga – The One Who Heals” retraces the fight of future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Mukwege. In the heart of Central Africa, Denis Mukwege advocates and treats, at the risk of his life, thousands of women who are victims of sexual violence and mutilations. His meeting with Guy-Bernard Cadière, a renowned Belgian surgeon, would breathe new life into his commitment. Together, they would operate, four hands at once, so that these women could regain dignity and hope.

France | The odious anti-RN clip by the “rappers of fear”

They have taken hostage the beautiful rallying cry of the Spanish Republicans during the civil war from 1936 to 1939: “No pasaran” (“They shall not pass”). That's the title a score of rappers dared to give to an infamous video intended to mobilise against the National Rally. Under the guise of calling young people to their duty as citizens, these brilliant artists, anxious - they tell the gogos - to “get back to the essence of rap”, pour out ten...