Overview
- Staged at Paris’s Grand Palais on Jan. 27, the show unfolded in a fantasy forest of giant mushrooms and candy‑pink trees with a prelude animation referencing the ateliers.
- Birds and feathers informed the design logic, yielding sheer silk mousseline suits, buoyant chiffon, and tweeds rendered as whispers rather than armor.
- House signatures were stripped back or reworked, from a modernized little black dress to trompe‑l’oeil “jeans” in organza and airy takes on the 2.55 bag.
- Models selected personal symbols, dates, and messages for Lesage to embroider into garments, emphasizing couture as a dialogue with the wearer.
- Bhavitha Mandava closed as a feathered couture bride to a millennial‑nostalgia soundtrack, as a front row including Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa, Penélope Cruz, and A$AP Rocky watched a debut widely praised as a fresh direction within a broader generational shift in couture.