Paris Fashion Week: an enchanted interlude by Courrèges

For the fall-winter 2025–2026 fashion show, artistic director Nicolas de Felice revived the bold and optimistic spirit of the fashion house founded in 1961 by André Courrèges and his wife Coqueline and now owned by Artémis, the holding company of the Pinault family.

A moment of bliss and delight… thanks to Nicolas de Felice.

This is how we could sum up the latest Courrèges fashion show for fall-winter 2025–2026, which took place on March 5 in Paris at the Carreau du Temple, unanimously praised by the press.

“One minute Courrèges”

Against a backdrop of geopolitical noise and fury, hearts were hardly in party mode during this Paris Fashion Week. But Courrèges, the brand that perfectly embodies past and future, managed to make us forget the present, for the duration of an enchanted interlude… Or rather a “One minute Courrèges”, the name of its latest opus.

“We artistic directors often react to what is happening around us. I want to respond with optimism, which is characteristic of the Courrèges fashion house.” Nicolas Di Felice told the fashion press.

And indeed, the Belgian, who has been at the helm of the fashion house, a subsidiary of Artémis, the holding company of the Pinault family, since 2020, has once again succeeded in charming the fashion world with his vision that is both respectful of the legacy of André Courrèges while pursuing his futuristic approach. Structured and innovative cuts, monobloc and pure colors: the vocabulary of André Courrèges is very much there, transposed into our decade.

The rectangle takes center stage

No show-off: in an extremely sober setting, an immaculate box, under a glass roof bathed in pre-spring sunshine, a white flag (welcome in these troubled times) floating, the parade sets the tone of joy and celebration, with a shower of blue, white and pink confetti…. Confetti in the shape of a rectangle, a geometric shape that is very present in the collection. The remix of the classic club by Chantal “The Realm”, by Erwan Sene and… Nicolas Di Felice, delivers the same message on this day after carnival: it’s time to forget the burdens of everyday life and have fun!

And the artistic director himself obviously had fun imagining the 45 deceptively simple silhouettes in the collection, with their many original cuts and shapes.

Nicolas de Felice started his collection by buying strips of wool, which he used to drape over the models. “That’s how the first silhouettes came about. The starting point of the collection,” he explained.

This was developed into minimalist models, whose strength lies in their architecture, even if it means twisting ‘the construction of Courrèges archetypes’ with ‘oblique angles and asymmetrical fastenings, which alter the balance of traditional codes’. Long rectangles of fabric extend the mini-skirts with bias trains or are wrapped around the body like scarves to become a top or a dress…