Rabanne Fall/Winter 2026 at Paris Fashion Week

Rabanne Fall/Winter 2026 / FW26 at Paris Fashion Week entitled A LITTLE LOUCHE

What does modernist femininity mean to Rabanne? For Julien Dossena, it is a rejection of something too polished and perfect. It is an aesthetic of the present moment that decontextualizes and recombines references through the decades. It is about feeling an intimate connection with one’s clothes. It is the acknowledgement that fashion is a living art – one filled with real, living characters.

The women – and a few men – who embody this collection’s clique come across as a little louche. It is a description that sounds alluring for its vagueness – slightly shady, somewhat unknowable, but definitely confident and in control. They catch your eye. How did they get here and where are they going? There’s something about her boat-collar dress that recalls the 1940s that she wears with a jacket in shearing intarsia; or the way she reimagines a bookish check suit – leaving her blouse open and her slip exposed. She places her pockets in her men’s plaid trousers – an animal print pump peeking out – that she’s paired with a floral blouse and brightly coloured Fair Isle sweater vest. Her closet has a coat embellished with eyelets of gradient size; a chemise printed with paper planes; and a leather blazer printed with flowers. One day, you see her in a twinset that’s been fully embroidered and beaded with small flowers that she makes less precious with a pair of stylized cowboy boots.

Another, she appears in a fully draped top of flower-printed metal mesh and a draped skirt of deconstructed, fringed jersey encircled with tiers of mini metallic tubes. There’s the character who reaches for the thin belt that holds far too many stories; finds the tone of tights that contrasts her color-blocked, T-bar pumps; adds an extra-large metal bracelet and heads out in her leather trench that will become more beloved as it ages. Underneath, there’s her assemblage skirt that swishes with each step.

One of the guys offsets his wool trench with leather trousers; another wears a slouchy double-breasted jacket and pants – pleats inverted – with a turtleneck and open shirt, finished off with a pair of classic shoes. To his coat covered in eyelets, he adds a belt and keeps the fur collar today but removes it tomorrow.

Rabanne FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026, Within this season’s moody atmosphere, dressing up is less about being performative than signaling choices. And about seeing how Dossena’s various associations tap into a vérité of self-expression, where the mixing and accumulation brings each character closer to their individuality.