COUTURE BEYOND THE WESTERN CENTRE: PARIS AND THE RISE OF A MORE PLURAL LUXURY GEOGRAPHY
Theme: Paris Haute Couture Week 2026 (2/2) Paris remains couture’s institutional capital. The creative authority it convenes, however, is increasingly distributed across cultures, craft traditions and emerging luxury ecosystems. Paris Haute Couture Week has always been international in its clientele, its influence and its ambitions. What feels different this season is the degree to which […]
PARIS HAUTE COUTURE WEEK: WHAT COUTURE REALLY SIGNALS ABOUT THE STATE OF LUXURY
Theme: Paris Haute Couture Week 2026 Paris Haute Couture Week opens today, July 6, and runs through July 9. Couture remains the sector’s most concentrated expression of what luxury says it believes in: time, rarity, technical mastery, creative freedom and the value of the human hand. This season carries unusual symbolic weight. Major houses are […]
CANNES LIONS 2026: WHAT THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE FESTIVAL IS CONFIRMING ABOUT LUXURY
Theme: Cannes Lions 2026 The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity closed its 73rd edition last week on the Croisette — and it did so with a particular resonance for France. This year’s festival named France as its 2026 Creative Country of the Year, a recognition grounded in performance and cultural legacy: 1,603 Lions and […]
VIVATECH 2026: WHAT BEAUTY’S TECHNOLOGY RACE IS REALLY BUILDING
Theme: VivaTech 2026: Beauty & Technology Last week in Paris, Europe’s largest technology event became, for four days, a laboratory for the future of beauty. The question worth asking is what it reveals. THE SIGNAL BENEATH THE SHOWCASE VivaTech is, by design, an event of announcements. Booths compete for spectacle. Innovations are packaged for press. […]