From a Milan landmark to the heart of Paris: Fashion Week Studio brought its S/S27 season to Mairie du 15e Arrondissement on 29 September 2026, with ten designers whose work ranged from Japanese craftsmanship and West African heritage to conceptual silhouettes and coastal poetry
Following its Milan showcase, Fashion Week Studio brought its international S/S27 journey to Paris with the first of three presentations during Paris Fashion Week. Set within the distinguished surroundings of Mairie du 15e Arrondissement, the 29 September showcase brought together designers whose work explored transformation, identity, cultural heritage, experimentation and the evolving language of contemporary fashion. The evening moved across distinctly different creative worlds, from the dualities of WILDFRÄULEIN and the coastal inspirations of Mizuid to the sculptural experimentation of Kyle Denman and the cross-cultural perspectives of WAURAT and Gveny London.
“At Mairie du 15e Arrondissement, Paris became a meeting point for designers united not by a single aesthetic, but by a shared commitment to creative freedom and storytelling.” — Fashion Week Studio
The opening Paris presentation was the platform’s latest step in a season that has already taken in Milan, and it confirmed the breadth of voices that define Fashion Week Studio’s international programme. Founded in 2017 and with more than 450 runway shows and showcases produced across Paris, Milan and London, the platform has consistently given independent designers a route to international audiences. The September 29 showcase added another chapter to that record.
Fashion Week Studio opened its Paris S/S27 season on 29 September 2026 at Mairie du 15e Arrondissement, with designers from Japan, West Africa, Los Angeles, Virginia and beyond sharing a single international stage.
WILDFRÄULEIN — A&D S’D’C’L
WILDFRÄULEIN opened the evening with A&D S’D’C’L, a collection built around the dualities that shape human experience. Angel and Demon, Shiny in the Dark, and the Cycle of Love became interconnected ideas in a collection built on contradiction. The premise is straightforward and honest: what is visible is not the whole story. Light and darkness, attraction and tension, and beginnings and cycles coexist as emotional forces, and the collection lets fashion capture moments of human experience rather than offer a single fixed interpretation. It was a bold opening statement that set the evening’s conceptual tone from the first look.
Dawn Bradbury Designs
Virginia-based Dawn Bradbury Designs returned to the Fashion Week Studio runway following its Milan appearance, bringing the same philosophy of luxury rooted in freedom, movement and joy. Vibrant silks became kaftans, dresses, tops, sarongs, and accessories designed to move effortlessly from resort days to elegant evenings. Caribbean landscapes, world travel, animals, and sunset colours informed the collection, and the resulting pieces carried a lightness that felt genuinely lived-in. Founded following the designer’s own journey through recovery, the brand also embodies resilience, faith and the belief that it is never too late to pursue a creative calling. Both facts belong in any account of what Dawn Bradbury Designs puts on the runway.
Mizuid — Again.
A shoreline became the emotional landscape for Mizuid’s SS27 collection, again. Designer Mizuha Yamauchi drew on her own photography of waves, changing light, and footprints disappearing into the sand to create a collection that explores renewal and the courage to move forward once more. Original prints, fluid forms, contrasting textures and fresh coastal colours created garments that balance artistic expression with everyday wearability. Like the shoreline itself, the collection exists in a constant state of movement, and that quality came through clearly on the Paris runway. Again, it is a collection about returning, not retreating, and the distinction matters.
Trio Couture / Trio by Itaf
More than 35 years of experimentation inform Trio by Itaf’s couture language. What began with a childhood fascination with fabric, thread, paper, beads, and other materials evolved into a distinctive approach to fashion built on creativity, craftsmanship, and individuality. Unexpected materials become sculptural details and tactile surfaces, blurring the line between clothing and art. From dresses once made for friends to an established couture house, Trio by Itaf shows how imagination can become a lifelong creative language. The Paris presentation gave that language its latest public expression.
MID ESCAPE
MID ESCAPE brought one of the evening’s most distinctive perspectives, examining the complicated relationship between beauty, perception and identity through the eyes of a new generation of young women. The collection embraces distortion rather than rejecting it, treating individuality as something that can emerge from the very things society might consider imperfect. Tokyo’s eclectic beauty informs the opening looks while the final looks draw on Japanese resilience and quiet rebellion. Beauty becomes self-definition, a weapon and an intimate act of resistance. It is a strong proposition, delivered with precision.
SOI. — The Final Shape: Chrysalide de l’Aube
What does it mean to be complete? SOI.’s The Final Shape — Chrysalide de l’Aube considers that question through the symbolism of the chrysalis. Made-in-Japan fabrics and artisanal craftsmanship shape satin, organza and tulle that gently conceal, reveal and envelop the body. Layers shift, volumes flow, and textures move as the woman within the collection remains in a state of becoming. She is not presented as finished but as someone changing, growing and freely redefining herself. It is a generous and unusual premise for a fashion collection, and the execution gave it the weight it deserved.
Algorithm — The Collapse of Chirality
In The Collapse of Chirality, Algorithm looked toward the future by examining humanity’s relationship with memory and the planet. Inspired by the idea that DNA carries memories across generations, the collection translated an algorithm’s complexity into knitting and intricate construction. Direction, orientation and minute details became important parts of the visual language, creating garments that reward closer observation while asking a larger question: what memories will humanity leave behind for those who come next? Fashion rarely raises this question directly, and Algorithm built an entire collection around trying to answer it through cloth and construction.
Kyle Denman
Los Angeles designer Kyle Denman brought Greek mythology to Paris as a study of movement and suspension. Working at the intersection of art, architecture and emotional storytelling, Denman used sculptural silhouettes, wire and mesh to explore the space between rising and falling. The garments carry a theatrical quality that suggests flight, weightlessness, and tension at once. The runway became a space where fashion appeared suspended between earth and sky, and the effect was exactly as striking as the concept promised. Denman’s Paris presentation reminded us what fashion can do when it commits fully to a single physical idea.
Pan African Luxury Group Presentation: WAURAT and Gveny London
The Pan African Luxury Group presentation added another dimension to the September 29 programme, bringing together two designers whose work placed African heritage at the centre of the Paris runway.
WAURAT — Designer Mireille Waurat brings a deeply personal approach to fashion. Born in Côte d’Ivoire and raised in France, Waurat returned to fashion following a period of personal loss, eventually developing her craft through self-directed study before completing formal fashion training in Paris. Her collections draw on memory, heritage, and everyday life in Côte d’Ivoire, expressed through materials, movement, and craftsmanship, alongside a contemporary sensibility. Varied textiles, ecological considerations and meticulous finishing create garments that function as a visual and sensory journey between cultures. Through the Pan African Luxury Group presentation, Waurat brought that dialogue between Ivorian heritage and modern fashion directly to the Paris runway.
Gveny London — Founded by Samuel Kaiser, Gveny London entered the Paris showcase with a design perspective shaped by the intersection of African heritage, couture craftsmanship and a commitment to more conscious fashion. Kaiser’s creative journey began with art and self-expression before evolving into formal fashion training and an international career. His work has earned recognition from Vogue and led to collaborations with notable names, including Errol Douglas MBE, while Gveny has also dressed Miss Universe Great Britain Amy Willerton. After a fire destroyed most of his existing collections, Kaiser took a six-year hiatus from fashion before returning to Paris Fashion Week in 2025. That return marked a new era for Gveny, one grounded in its heritage while looking firmly toward its next chapter on the international stage.
Paris as a Meeting Point
The September 29 presentation established the tone for Fashion Week Studio’s Paris S/S27 season. The designers who gathered at Mairie du 15e Arrondissement shared no single aesthetic or geography. They shared a commitment to creative freedom and storytelling, and the platform gave each of them the space to make that commitment visible.
From conceptual silhouettes and Japanese craftsmanship to African heritage and cross-cultural design, the evening demonstrated the range fashion can hold when the room is built to accommodate it. Fashion Week Studio’s Paris season continues, with two further presentations still to come in the capital before the S/S27 journey moves on.
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Fashion Week Studio S/S27 — Credits
Paris · 29 September 2026 · Mairie du 15e arrondissement
Production & Team
| Role | |
|---|---|
| Production | @fashionweekstudioofficial |
| CEO & Founder | @nathanaellehottois |
| COO | @hayleyjanesworld |
| Film | @ora.raw |
| Videographers | @diegoo_rva | @_moju |
| Photographer | @raw._ul |
| Hair | @lillyhilt |
| Makeup | @makeupartacademyparis |
Designers & Models
| Designer | Model | |
|---|---|---|
| Algorithm | @algorithm_miku | @vilia.victoria |
| Dawn Bradbury Designs | @dawnbradburydesigns | @aureliazaba |
| Gveny London | @gvenylondon | @missmodelamani |
| Kyle Denman | @thekyledenman | @cyl.14 |
| MID ESCAPE | — | @francescastabile_dxb |
| Mizuid | @mizuid_official | @malaury_cdr |
| SOI. | @soi.tokyo | @rachell.modell |
| Trio by Itaf | @trio.itaf | @francescastabile_dxb |
| WAURAT | @waurat_paris | @jaderavett |
| WILDFRÄULEIN | @wildfraulein71 | @unwonted.artistry |
About Fashion Week Studio
Fashion Week Studio is an independent fashion-week production and brand-building platform that connects designers with international fashion audiences through runway shows, showcases, and creative experiences across major fashion capitals. Founded in 2017, the platform has produced more than 450 runway shows. It runs shows across Paris, Milan, and London, working with designers from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Through its growing network of designers, media, industry professionals, influencers and fashion audiences, Fashion Week Studio continues to build platforms where creative voices from around the world can be seen, discovered and celebrated.
