Strong women’s fashion week in Paris with 67 shows

The Haute Couture week is over and Paris is looking forward to the next fashion week in February-March. According to the provisional calendar published by the Chambre Syndicate de la Mode Feminine on January 21, Paris Women’s Ready-to-Wear Week for Fall-Winter 2023/24 will take place from February 27 to March 7, bringing together 106 houses. There are 67 performances and 40 presentations on the program, including Dundas and the Palm Angels for the first time.

Among the newcomers to the Paris calendar this season, the House of Chiparelli, led by Daniel Rosebery, shows during Haute Couture and has already presented “prêt-à-couture” collections, as it calls them during Women’s Fashion Week. The show is scheduled for March 2. Also, Avellano will close on March 7. Created by latex specialist Arthur Avellano, the brand often shows at Men’s Week.

Two new names on the Paris scene are also worth mentioning. Palm Angels, an Italian luxury streetwear label, owned by Farfetch’s New Guard group and led by Francesco Ragazzi, and Dundas, a British brand launched in 2017 by Norwegian designer Peter Dundas, was invited to Haute Couture in July 2018 and is returning here. Paris, this time a ready-to-wear program. They will be shown on March 5 and 6 respectively.

Among the houses returning to Women’s Paris Fashion Week this season are Alexander McQueen, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Y/Project and Nina Ricci, who will show his first collection with new creative director Harris Reid on March 3. Ann Demeulemeester will be presenting the collection at Ludovic de Saint-Cernin on March 4. It will be the designer’s first season as the brand’s creative director.

New entrants are also expected through an introductory program. These include Chinese label Chenpeng, British designer Margaret Howell, Italian Niccolò Pasqualetti and Irish Roisin Pearce.