{"id":5116,"date":"2025-10-05T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:37:44","slug":"balenciaga-spring-summer-2026-meghan-markle-anne-hathaway-show-up-for-paris-debut-of-fashions-great-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/?p=5116","title":{"rendered":"Balenciaga spring-summer 2026: Meghan Markle, Anne Hathaway show up for Paris debut of fashion\u2019s great romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n When guests arrived for the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week on Saturday evening, several found themselves on familiar ground: a chapel built during the reign of the former French King Louis XIII, which is part of the historic Laennec headquarters of Balenciaga\u2019s owner, Kering. After all, it was only three months ago that a retrospective for the brand\u2019s former designer, Demna (now at Gucci), took place here.\n <\/p>\n

\n For Pierpaolo Piccioli, the creative director of the Paris-based luxury house as of July, it was important to acknowledge those who had come before him \u2014 and to return to the site that honored his predecessor\u2019s achievements marked a full circle of sorts that made him comfortable to move forward, he told editors backstage after the show. It\u2019s a gesture that encapsulates the kind of designer that Piccioli, who relocated to Paris from Rome for the job, has become known for: compassionate, humanist and kind.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Those attributes \u2014 earning Piccioli a reputation in fashion as one of its great romantics \u2014 were also apparent in his designs for Balenciaga, which incorporated plenty of thoughtful details that referenced the archive. They were shown for the first time to a starry front row that included the actors Anne Hathaway, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Krit Amnuaydechkorn (better known by fans as PP Krit), director Baz Luhrmann, and even Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex \u2014 who, for her first-ever Paris Fashion Week show, wore a white cape draped across a silky shirt and floor-skimming trousers.\n <\/p>\n

\n The opening look at Balenciaga was a long slinky black dress, styled with white gloves, pulled up past the elbows, and bedazzled wraparound visors that covered half the model\u2019s face. Then came some tops and skirts in bulbous shapes \u2014 a clear nod to the cocoon silhouette that cemented Balenciaga in fashion history \u2014 as well as textured dresses, some with exaggerated trains that billowed with each step.\n <\/p>\n

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