Also to note on Tuesday: Jordanian-Romanian footwear designer Amina Muaddi will open her first-ever boutique, a jewel-box boutique on Paris’s Avenue Montaigne. The interior was designed by the multi-talented entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami. Californian brand Frame and auction house Sotheby’s are celebrating their capsule collection that was already feted in New York and London.
Wednesday will be about comings and goings: Demna will present his final couture collection at Balenciaga, and Glenn Martens will debut at Maison Margiela. Will the Balenciaga show be attended by Demna’s successor, Pierpaolo Piccioli? They both attended the opening of the Balenciaga exhibition at the Kering HQ.
Martens has big shoes to fill. The last Margiela show was the reveal of John Galliano’s Maison Margiela Artisanal collection under Pont Alexandre III in January 2024, which Vogue Runway and Vogue Business global director Nicole Phelps described as a “fashion show that captured the world’s attention like absolutely no other”. “I have worked with Glenn for years, I have witnessed his talent, and I know what he is capable of,” OTB chairman Renzo Rosso said about Martens when his appointment was announced in January 2025. “Glenn, who studied at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts like Martin [Margiela], has already shown his prowess and his vision in couture,” he added about the 42-year-old Belgian designer.
Paris couture week will end on a high note, with three live performances of Jordan Roth, theatre producer and self-proclaimed couture devotee, titled Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, at the Louvre. He describes it as a “narrative fashion performance.” Roth will be accompanied by six dancers and conductor Thomas Roussel.
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