Material Mixing and Bold Denim Silhouettes Trend at Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week concluded on Tuesday, wrapping up a month-long first look at Fall/Winter 2025-2026 denim trends and themes.

Whereas New York delivered practicality, London tapped into its punk roots and Milan served directional trends made for the runway, Paris offered leaned heavily on avant-garde silhouettes, textures and shadowy contrasts.

Material mixing made up part of Rick Owens‘ tattered and frayed denim skirts and column dresses. Junya Watanabe spliced indigo jeans with swaths of black fur. Ukrainian designer Litkovska pieced denim with tailoring fabrics to create skirt and pant layers.

In a collection inspired by opulent and grand interiors, Ganni played with velvet-touch zebra denim, cozy knit denim and pearlescent denim. Skirts layered over baggy jeans created a peplum silhouette.

Ottolinger reimagined the basic skinny jeans with shadow pockets and pocketing and knee panels that peeled away from the body. In keeping with the bum-barring trend set a week prior on the Diesel runway, Duran Lantink showed bare back sculptural jeans that folded away from the body. Chanel married the transparency trend with denim prints.

Center seam details continue to trend thanks to labels like Gaucher and Alainpaul, which added undone hems to baggy styles. Sharp center creases highlighted the contrast washes Dice Kayek’s collection.  

There were elements of near nostalgia in collections as well. Chloe maintained its bohemian aesthetic with split hem flare jeans. Coperni’s denim had an early 2000s vibe with tinted bootcut jeans, miniskirts and shrunken jackets. Isabel Marant brought a New Wave edge to men’s and women’s denim, mixing mini wrap skirts and vests with red tartan tops.