Paula Canovas del Vas Spring/Summer 2026 / SS26 at Paris Fashion Week
For Spring/Summer 2026, Paula Canovas del Vas presents “Private Matters”, a public intervention exploring the tension of intimacy and visibility. The project transforms a functional truck into a surreal mobile bathroom, confronting how acts once private (dressing, grooming, preparing the body) have become public performances shaped by surveillance, spectacle, and self-curation. By placing a bathroom, one of the most intimate domestic spaces, in the public sphere, the presentation questions who has the right to privacy, and what it means to reveal oneself in a world where exposure has become a form of power. The work reflects on how intimacy, gender, and vulnerability are constructed and negotiated in contemporary life. An invitation to reclaim softness and self-expression in a climate of constant scrutiny.
Details of Paula Canovas del Vas SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 collection extends Paula’s sculptural language. One-off pieces are constructed from hand-cut jersey strips, meticulously layered into voluminous pompoms. Laser-printed and embroidered denim introduces new surfaces, while distorted floral prints appear across shirting. Deconstructed knitwear slips from the body, revealing fragments of skin, echoing the show’s exploration of exposure and intimacy. The collection debuts new Diablo flat sandals, a reimagined Diablo sneaker now with laces, and elongated draped jersey skirts that wrap and twist around the body.
“In a world where exposure is currency, privacy becomes an act of resistance. By bringing the most intimate space into the public eye, we reclaim vulnerability as a form of power.”
Paula Canovas del Vas SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026, This season also introduces a special partnership with Converse, reimagining the Chuck 70 and Chuck Taylor All Star XX Hi silhouettes through the brand sculptural lens. Adorned with intricate 3D flowers and herringbone detailing, the handcrafted customizations celebrate the Converse legacy as a canvas for individuality and rebellion.
ABOUT CONVERSE, the brand is an iconic lifestyle brand with more than 115 years of heritage, born in sport and adopted by culture. Converse provokes and enables those independent enough not to follow to challenge convention and defy conformity. Through expressive, inventive footwear and apparel, Converse inspires all to move confidently, play fearlessly, and connect authentically. Converse is part of NIKE, Inc. and, also, distinctly itself.
ABOUT PAULA CANOVAS DEL VAS, designer is the Spanish-born, London-based designer behind the eponymous label established in 2018, after graduating from the Central Saint Martins BA and MA Fashion, completed with the support of the Stella McCartney Scholarship. Today the label is present at over 30 stockists worldwide including MAXFIELD (Los Angeles), SSENSE, GR8 (Tokyo), Hankyu D-Lab (Osaka) and International Gallery Beams (Tokyo). The label joined Paris Fashion Week in September 2022.
Paula was awarded the Vogue Spain Prize 2022 and was a semi-finalist of the LVMH Prize 2022. She was named by the New York Times an emerging designer to watch and her work has been featured in Vogue, Dazed and i-D. In 2024, she joined the 38th Festival de Hyères as Jury of the Photography Prize. Prior to launching the label, Paula was a creative consultant for Ye, following internship positions at Maison Margiela under John Galliano and Gucci. Paula’s youthful collections are developed around a rich array of references, research with patterns, shapes, fabrics and cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists. All collections are made using primarily deadstock and recycled materials.
All images Paula Canovas del Vas SS26 / Spring/Summer 2026 by the brand. CREDITS TO: Creative Direction PAULA CANOVAS DEL VAS / Team CAMINO MARTOS, DANIEL HAWORTH, ELISA BOLZONELLO / Style and Consulting ELISA VOTO / Photography LETIZIA GUEL / Photography Assistant AGNES VIRAG / 2nd Photography Assistant VIRIDIANA MORANDINI / Head of Production NIELS SCHACK / Art Direction STUDIO TEAM PAULA CANOVAS DEL VAS / Set Design VIOLA VITALI / Set Design Assistants LUCIE POCHET, MATHIAS MARY, ANGELE DEFORAS / MATHILDE RAIMOND, DORIAN FOURNIER / Casting JULIA ASARO / Movement LEONARDO D’AQUINO / Video GEORGIA CANNING / Graphic Design DAHEE KIM / Press ROMCOM / Makeup CRYSTABEL RILEY (JULIAN WATSON AGENCY) / Makeup Assistants MIRUNA ANTOFE / Hair MADOKA NAKAGAWA (SHISEIDO) / Hair Assistants YUKO TERADA (SHISEIDO) / Talent DIOSSI, MAE, MURIEL / Special Thanks FHCM, CONVERSE, SHISEIDO, TYPOLOGY.