The quiet season: why houses are betting on tailoring again
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The quiet season: why houses are betting on tailoring again

Backstage in Paris, the story of the season is not spectacle but cut. Designers, buyers and studio directors explain how a return to coats, shoulders and real fabric is reshaping order books for next year.

By The Scholtes desk
Retail
Inside the new flagship playbook
Retail

Inside the new flagship playbook

Fewer doors, longer appointments, and stores designed to be photographed as much as shopped.

Craft
The ateliers that still finish by hand
Craft

The ateliers that still finish by hand

A week with the embroiderers and seamstresses whose hours decide what a garment can cost.

Street
What the pavement says before the runway does
Street

What the pavement says before the runway does

Outside the venues, the season's real signals: grey suiting, quiet bags and a return to formality.

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Showroom season, rewritten

Buyers are placing smaller, later orders — and asking brands to carry more of the risk.

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