The Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture Calendar Is Here
The FW26 Haute Couture Week calendar includes Pierpaolo Piccolio’s debut for Balenciaga couture, as well as Duran Lantink’s first couture outing for Jean Paul Gaultier.
Reported by Vogue.
Paris in July means one thing: the most rarefied week in fashion is back, and Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture Week is arriving with more houses, higher stakes, and a handful of debuts worth clearing your calendar for. Running July 6 through 9, the week will host 30 houses — three more than last season's lineup — according to Vogue.
The headliners are obvious. Pierpaolo Piccioli makes his couture debut at Balenciaga, and Duran Lantink steps onto the couture stage for the first time at Jean Paul Gaultier. Meanwhile, the sophomore moments are just as loaded: Jonathan Anderson at Dior, Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, and Silvana Armani at Giorgio Armani Privé all return for their second couture outings — the collections where a new vision either clicks or doesn't.
The Guest List and the Notable Gaps
Two guest houses round out the schedule with plenty to say for themselves. Indian couturier Manish Malhotra — whose label is partly backed by Reliance Brands Limited and who dressed Karan Johar at this year's Met Gala — joins alongside Standing Ground, the London-based label from Irish designer Michael Stewart, winner of the LVMH Savoir-Faire Prize in 2024. Iris van Herpen, Schiaparelli, Viktor & Rolf, and Elie Saab return as reliable fixtures. Notably absent: Valentino, after Alessandro Michele moved the house to a January couture rhythm, and Maison Margiela, which last showed in July 2025. Founder Martin Margiela will, however, surface in Paris on July 9 — not on a runway, but at auction, selling pieces from his personal archive.
The week closes with Adeline André in Paris on the afternoon of July 9, before the crowd boards flights to Rome for what may be the most anticipated destination show of the season: Maria Grazia Chiuri's first couture collection for Fendi, that same evening.
This is a couture season defined less by its returners than by its firsts — and whether the next generation of creative directors can make the world's most demanding format feel entirely their own.
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