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Yves Saint Laurent’s Autumn/Winter 1976 haute couture collection, Opéras – Ballets Russes, transformed the Hôtel Inter-Continental in Paris into a stage for exuberant fashion. At a time when the future of haute couture was under discussion, Saint Laurent answered with artistic scale, colour and unapologetic romance.

On 29 January 1971, Yves Saint Laurent presented the haute couture collection known as Libération, or the Forties, in Paris. Inspired in part by Paloma Picasso’s fascination with flea-market fashion, it revived wartime-era silhouettes at a moment when memories of occupation remained politically and emotionally sensitive.

In July 2007, Christian Dior commemorated its sixtieth anniversary with a haute couture collection presented at the Orangerie at Versailles. Under John Galliano, the house assembled an exceptional cast and a setting associated with the history of French courtly display, but the mood also carried a quieter, commemorative character.

Hussein Chalayan’s Spring/Summer 2007 collection One Hundred and Eleven staged an extraordinary meeting of fashion history, engineering and performance. Shown in Paris in October 2006, its title marked the anniversary of patron Swarovski, whose collaboration helped realise garments that physically changed shape while being worn.

John Galliano’s Christian Dior Spring 2007 haute couture show transformed the emotional world of Madame Butterfly into a sequence of extraordinary silhouettes. Presented in Paris in January 2007, the collection developed the artistic possibilities of couture as sculpture, theatre and an encounter between cultural references.

Rick Owens transformed his Spring/Summer 2014 presentation in Paris in September 2013 by replacing the conventional line-up of runway models with step dancers from American teams. The result became a landmark not only for its performance energy but for the way it challenged assumptions about who may occupy a major fashion stage.

For Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2012, Marc Jacobs built his runway around one of the label’s founding ideas: travel. Instead of simply referencing old luggage or railway posters, the show introduced an actual vintage-style steam train into the Cour Carrée in Paris, turning the reveal of the collection into the arrival of a spectacular travelling party.

Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel Autumn/Winter 2010 ready-to-wear show transformed the Grand Palais in Paris into an Arctic landscape. Its enormous blocks of actual ice, brought into the temporary runway environment, made the collection one of the house’s most widely remembered spectacles and linked the drama of fashion to contemporary concerns about the natural world.

Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring/Summer 1994 Les Tatouages collection was a provocative contribution to the fashion culture of the 1990s. The Paris show brought tattoos, punk visual language, historical tailoring, corsetry and a range of global cultural references onto one runway, making the decorated body central to the designer’s imagination.

Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2027 pairs a futuristic Louvre setting with fluid layers, light construction and a wardrobe built around movement.

A.W.A.K.E. Mode Spring 2027 revisits tailoring, denim and circular forms through altered proportions and playful construction.

Mira Mikati’s Hôtel des Rêves brings vivid colour, playful details and an easy holiday wardrobe to Spring 2027, with 18 collection photographs.

Kris Brock’s new namesake label pairs romantic lace, rounded skirts and relaxed layers in a Spring 2027 collection presented during Paris Fashion Week.

AWGE Spring/Summer 2027 combines military references, office dressing and everyday objects in A$AP Rocky’s Anti-War Global Economics collection.

Victoria Beckham’s Spring/Summer 2027 show paired fluid dresses and relaxed tailoring with House Red, the runway debut of Rouge Victoria.

Marine Serre’s Spring/Summer 2027 lookbook balances fitted dresses, sculpted sportswear and vivid colour in The Deep Shine.

Chanel Spring/Summer 2027 revisits the suit through light layers, expressive colour and a new smocked tweed designed for movement.

Butterfly appliques, fluid draping and contrasts between lace and utility shape ZIMMERMANN’s Spring 2027 ready-to-wear runway collection.

Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2027 explores ceremony and distorted proportions through pale crowns, swollen blue forms and flashes of red.

Noir Kei Ninomiya Spring/Summer 2027 turns flowers into open frameworks and dense bouquets, balancing fragility with imposing silhouettes.