With a lot of the spring 2026 schedule in flux when the time got here to choose venues, dates and instances, Paula Canovas del Vas discovered the proper answer: staging her spring assortment reveal in a truck, which she may parked on any Paris avenue.
“I really feel like we’re simply dwelling in such polarized worlds that I needed to deliver that into the idea for the gathering, into the garments as properly,” she stated.
The truck was kitted out with a completely tiled lavatory full with a bath, rest room and sink, and fashions did “issues we do within the lavatory that really feel incorrect,” like giving a T-shirt a sniff take a look at, having a chew to eat or holding a powwow with mates.
The gathering leaned additional into dichotomies. Clothes with simple cuts festooned with exuberant handmade pompoms, whereas extra informal choices like handkerchief-hem skirts got here in a patchwork of shirting, shirtdresses seemed spray-painted with floral prints and barrel-shaped joggers had a tuxedo-style ruffle curling from the hip to the entrance of the leg.
Woven into the season was additionally a commentary on intimacy, gender and vulnerability, at a time the place once-private moments have develop into spectacle.
Holding interviews outdoors an RV serving because the backstage, there was additionally one dichotomy Canovas del Vas needed to level out. “I work with superb [women] and this is essential for me given a context the place each one of many heads of the large homes is a person,” she stated.
