Overview
- The men’s shows that wrapped last weekend in Paris put coed runways and women modeling menswear at the center of the season rather than treating them as side notes.
- Designers sent clear trend signals with widespread use of sheer, transparent fabrics and a revival of shrunken, skinny silhouettes led by houses such as Prada, Dior and Saint Laurent.
- Several high‑profile creative moments marked the season, including first menswear collections from Michael Rider at Celine, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Simone Rocha plus a new Dior Men outing from Jonathan Anderson.
- Houses are consolidating men’s and women’s presentations to cut costs, focus media attention and chase growth in menswear sales, a commercial logic reported as driving many coed shows.
- The runway moment sits against cultural friction that could limit how quickly these looks spread into everyday dress, with a history of androgyny in fashion and a current off‑runway backlash from online masculinity and political pressure.