Paris Fashion Week’s Best Runway Sets and Venues for Fall-Winter 2026

Above, actor Gillian Anderson walks in Miu Miu’s Fall-Winter 2026 show.

Paris Fashion Week’s Fall-Winter 2026 season proved once again that a fashion show’s setting can be as memorable as the clothes themselves. Historic landmarks across the city were reimagined with striking sets—industrial cranes rising beneath the Grand Palais’s glass roof, labyrinths of sheer curtains, and winding reflective paths. Below, our favorite venues of the season, because sometimes the stage steals a little of the show.

Dior

At the heart of Paris, the Jardin des Tuileries has long functioned as both a garden and a stage. Commissioned in the 16th century by Catherine de Medici and later reshaped under Louis XIV, it has long been a place for the Paris fashionable to see and be seen. For his second Dior women’s ready-to-wear collection, Jonathan Anderson erected an octagonal faux park within the park itself, bisected by a walkway across a pool of water lilies. Guests watched (and snapped pictures) from green benches reminiscent of the Tulieries garden chairs, recreating the ritual of observation that has defined the garden for centuries.

Acne Studios

Acne Studios Creative Director Johnny Johansson

At the Collège des Bernardins in Paris’s Latin Quarter, Acne Studios Creative Director Johnny Johansson commissioned a series of connected spaces arranged like a baroque enfilade, a suite of rooms with doorways aligned on a single axis (and famously used at the palace of Versailles). Built with production support from Bureau Betak, the rooms lead from one to the next through framed portals, markers of what came before and hints of what might follow, an idea conceived in the context of the house’s 30th anniversary. Each room had its own material language: glossy back lacquered molding in the white salon; mirrored silver frames in the pink; vintage ceramic fractured and reassembled with resin in the red; hand-painted marble effects in the yellow; and 3-D printed green ruffles in the green room. After the show, the door portals were set aside to be reused in future creative projects, such as theater stages and music festivals, through Acne Studios’s ongoing partnership with the recycling company MUTO.

Louis Vuitton

Constructed within the Cour Carrée, the original courtyard of the Musée du Louvre, Louis Vuitton’s runway wove through a nature abstracted into allegorical hills and valleys as conceived by production designer Jeremy Hindle, known for his work in the set of Severance. Models walked in angular coats and square collars, the geometry of the clothes echoing the angles of the fictional terrain. “The extreme shapes and details of clothes are formed by the elemental—wind, rain, sun,” read a statement from the brand. Here, nature is the ultimate muse.

Miu Miu

The Palais d’Iéna, architect Auguste Perret’s 1939 concrete landmark in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, is defined by its double staircase and forest of columns. It’s an unlikely venue to be transformed into a fanciful woodland, as it was for the recent Miu Miu show. Developed internally under the creative direction of Miuccia Prada, the set combined crafted and natural elements: fur-covered benches made from sustainably sourced materials; walls lined in reproductions of 19th-century lampasso, a decorative silk jacquard; and a floor scattered with real moss, pinecones, and leaves. The setting emphasized the smallness and individuality of figures on the runway. “I am obsessed with the smallness of the body—the contrast between ourselves, our bodies, and the vastness which surrounds us,” said Mrs. Prada herself in a statement. “Who we are, and the scale and magnitude of what we have to face. This collection is not about fragility—there is a confidence, and a strength—but always, [it’s] about a confrontation between a human and the expansiveness of the world.”

Hermès

In Paris’s 4th arrondissement, the Hermès models emerged from a glowing circular opening—like a portal of light suspended in the dark—and stepped onto a winding silver path that rose above mossy banks. Though the show took place at 2:30 in the afternoon, the venue evoked the cool atmosphere of an autumn dusk, inducing in the audience an almost nocturnal trance. As the procession of sharp tailoring, equestrian-inspired trousers, and utilitarian bags unfolded, leather, wool, and color caught the light, mimicking the way that your eyes adjust to the the night.

Loewe

Within the gardens of the Château de Vincennes, a 14th century fortress on the eastern edge of Paris, guests sat with unexpected friends, from upholstered St. Bernards to pairs of curious clams created by artist Cosima von Bonin. Across glossy yellow floors and between giant shoebox-benches, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez defined their language of play with bright red latex slip dresses, exaggerated puffy scarves, and feathered dresses.

Chanel

Staged beneath the soaring glass canopy of the Grand Palais, Matthieu Blazy’s second Chanel collection unfolded within one of Paris’s most monumental interiors. Cranes painted in bright yellow, red, blue, and green rose up within the vast hall, officially Europe’s largest glass roof at approximately 145,000 square feet. Against the scale and ironwork, models moved with fluidity, with enameled jewelry (and an eye-catching pomegranate bag) and sinuous dresses sweeping across an opalescent floor.

McQueen

Creative Director Seán McGirr.

At the historic Tennis Club de Paris, founded in 1895, production designer Tom Scutt manufactured the set for the Alexander McQueen collection as a spiraling maze of sheer curtains that carved the space into winding corridors. Masked models and lace dresses wove through the monochromatic beige labyrinth, often veiled by fabric corridors. In the finale, the curtains separating the rows of guests lifted to reveal all the models gathered at the center of the maze, bringing the winding, obscured journey suddenly in to focus.