Paris Fashion Week Womenswear

Overview

Paris Fashion Week Womenswear is the FHCM’s ready-to-wear womenswear calendar, staged in Paris each March and again in late September or early October. It closes the main womenswear month after New York, London and Milan, and brings together major French luxury houses, international brands and independent designers on one citywide schedule.

The week is associated with Paris’s position at the centre of luxury fashion, but its role is also practical: it is where buyers, editors and industry observers see the season’s final major womenswear collections. Heritage maisons and newer labels sit within the same official framework, giving the week both commercial weight and editorial range.

This page is part of the wider Paris Fashion Week coverage.

Paris Fashion Week umbrella page
Paris Fashion Week Menswear menswear schedule
Paris Haute Couture Week couture schedule

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2026 Dates and Highlights

Monday, March 2, 2026

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Monday, September 28, 2026

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Giambattista Valli

Withdrew from the PFW AW26 calendar (planned 6 March) shortly after cancelling the January 2026 couture show.

March 6, 2026

ALAÏA

Final Alaïa runway show by Pieter Mulier before his move to Versace.

March 4, 2026

Balmain

Antonin Tron's first Balmain runway show.

March 4, 2026

Sacai

Sacai issued a lookbook instead of staging a runway show for AW26.

March 2, 2026

Maison Margiela

Maison Margiela’s absence from the official Paris Fashion Week AW26–27 calendar sharpened the significance of its Shanghai appearance: rather than a routine Paris-season outing, the 1 April 2026 show positioned Glenn Martens’s first major Margiela runway outside Paris as a deliberate international statement at the close of Shanghai Fashion Week.

March 2, 2026

Coperni

Coperni skipped PFW AW26, citing financial and strategic reasons.

March 2, 2026

Off-White

Off-White returned to the Paris schedule after showing in New York the previous season.

March 2, 2026

Valentino

Valentino sat out PFW AW26 and showed in Rome instead.

March 2, 2026

Situationist

Situationist made its debut for its 10-year anniversary on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar.