Celine, Saint Laurent, Hed Mayner back on Paris Fashion Week Men’s calendar in June

From Tuesday, June 23 to Sunday, June 28, Paris will once again throb to the beat of the menswear fashion week. This season, the event will be more intense than ever. On Friday, the French Fashion and Haute Couture Federation published the provisional official calendar for Paris Fashion Week Men’s SS27 edition. The French capital has confirmed its international appeal for the coming session, lining up no fewer than 74 labels. A significant increase over the January session, which featured 66 labels.

The number of runway shows on the calendar during the event’s six days, 36, is the same as in the last edition, but the number of presentations has grown remarkably, with 38 dates planned. The increase confirms that fashion labels are re-jigging their promotional formats, looking for the formula best-suited to connect with buyers and the international media.

The fashion week buzz will be driven by the luxury giants’ shows, scheduled on the week’s key days, with a special focus on those labels introducing new creative directors for their menswear collections. At the Givenchy presentation, scheduled on Thursday June 25, all eyes will be trained on Sarah Burton’s interpretation of the label’s men’s style. The following afternoon, it will be Lanvin’s turn to showcase the menswear vision of new creative director Peter Copping.

Several labels will be going back to a presentation format, from a well-established brand like Berluti, to energetic emerging names like Bluemarble and Brazilian label P Andrade. This season’s main draw will be the return of some fashion heavyweights on the Parisian scene. Two star labels, Celine and Saint Laurent, are back on the official show calendar, as is independent designer Hed Mayner. 

Louis Vuitton will be the first marquee name on the runway, at 9 pm CET on Tuesday June 23, with the eagerly awaited show by Pharrell Williams. On Wednesday, Jonathan Anderson will unveil his take on Dior Homme at 2:30 pm CET, followed on Thursday June 25 at 12:30 pm CET by Rick Owens’ radical vision. Finally, Hermès has opted just this once for a presentation, scheduled on Saturday. It will be a transitional season for the French luxury label, after Véronique Nichanian’s departure last season, while Grace Wales Bonner will debut in January 2027. 

Within such a busy calendar, the absence of Jacquemus, which has regularly staged successful, spectacular outdoors shows for its summer collections outside the fashion week calendar, is quite notable. At the last winter edition of Paris Fashion Week, Simon Porte Jacquemus made sure the event closed on a memorable note on Sunday night, but has decided to give the Parisian session a miss this season. Also notable will be the absences of Maison Margiela, which showed in January, and Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, which staged a presentation.

Paris Fashion Week attracts scores of international labels. The Asian contingent will renew its close connection with Paris through the creative rigour of iconic Japanese names like Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as labels like Comme des Garçons Homme Plus and Junya Watanabe Man. Korean labels Juun.J, Solid Homme and Wooyoungmi will join the fray, and Chinese designers Sean Suen and Feng Chen Wang will again be present this season. The US contingent will rely on Amiri’s Californian style, on Kidsuper’s quirky outlook, on the raw vision of Willy Chavarria and the bold silhouettes proposed by ERL.

The new names on the calendar start with Vetements, now spearheaded by Guram Gvasalia. Another new entry is Soshiotsuki, the label by Japanese designer Soshi Otsuki, winner of the 2025 LVMH Prize, reinterpreting classic tailoring and formal suits with military precision.

Among the presentations, Belgian designer Meryll Rogge, winner of the 2025 Andam Prize, will give free rein to her bold, gender-defying creativity, blending Y2K looks with menswear staples, while Australian duo Song for the Mute will showcase their destructured, poetic streetwear. The rookie selection is completed by LAD/, a label that is reinventing the presentation experience by staging conceptual performances in which garments are treated as works of art.

In parallel with the official calendar, the Sphere showroom, based at the Palais de Tokyo on June 24-28, will showcase creations by several emerging talents. French designer Matthieu Ruiz will unveil sustainable looks drawing on the art of indigo-based vegetal fabric dyeing, while Finnish designer Rolf Ekroth, a Scandinavian creative noted at the Hyères Festival, will present his vision of utilitarian, nostalgia-veined fashion.

With a beefed-up official calendar and a growing number of off-calendar events, the start of the summer fashion season is set to be feverish, while Paris will boost its status as global fashion stronghold.