Loewe to sit out January menswear catwalk season in Paris

The house of Loewe has decided not to stage a runway show in the next menswear catwalk season in Paris in January. Instead, it will combine menswear and womenswear into a co-ed show during the next women’s ready-to-wear season in the French capital in March.

 
“Loewe will move to a co-ed format to present the first men’s collection of creative directors, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, in a unified approach with the women’s show during Paris Fashion Week in March 2026,” the house said in a terse release on Wednesday morning.
 
However, it stressed that “Loewe will return with a dedicated men’s show in June 2026.”

The surprise news comes just ahead of the unveiling of the official schedule for both the menswear and haute couture runway seasons in January. These schedules are typically released in the week before Christmas by the ​Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, French high fashion’s governing body.
 
The news will be seen as disappointing by fashion observers, seeing as the Loewe shows by the long-time creative director Jonathan Anderson were high points of the French menswear season. McCollough and Hernandez succeeded Anderson after he decamped to Dior in June this year.
 
Doubly so, seeing as the Loewe debut collection by McCollough and Hernandez in October garnered very positive reviews.