Paris Fashion Week 2024 exciting show highlights – including striking autumn/winter designs from Balenciaga, Valentino, Loewe, Alexander McQueen and Victoria Beckham

Mar 4 , 2024

The Balenciaga winter 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week took place in a structure filled with screens playing videos of natural and electronic landscapes. Photo: Getty Images

Kim Kardashian left the price tag hanging from her Balenciaga dress at the brand’s show – which was overwhelming in the best way, featuring a dress made with lingerie pieces

Meanwhile, daring fashionista Zendaya would enjoy the ‘Lamborghini yellow car dress’ in steel that creative director Seán McGirr made for his Alexander McQueen debut at an abandoned train depot

French houses dominate Paris Fashion Week but – much like London – the city is also a magnet for international designers aiming to make a mark on a global level, especially ones from Asia.

Vivienne Tam, the Chinese designer based between New York and Hong Kong, has already built an international business and has shown her collections in New York for many years, but this season she decamped to Paris to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her eponymous label and also the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and China.

Vivienne Tam celebrates her 30th anniversary at Paris Fashion Week with a show named Amour 愛. Photo: Gorunway.com

The show, named Amour 愛, was a blend of East and West and meant to deliver “a powerful message of unity and mutual respect”.

Here, in chronological order, are more highlights from Paris Fashion Week so far.

Loewe

If I were to name all the artists that I have discovered over the last decade thanks to Jonathan Anderson, Loewe’s creative director, I could fill a museum.

And this is precisely what the designer did for the Spanish label’s autumn/winter 2024 show, except that he displayed the work of only one artist: American painter Albert York.

The show venue was a series of museum galleries painted in three shades of green – all the better to display York’s idyllic landscapes and botanical paintings hanging on the walls.

A beaded tracksuit decorated with a painting of Albert York at Loewe autumn/winter 2024 at Paris Fashion Week. Photo: EPA-EFE

Art and nature, two of Anderson’s passions, came together in a beautifully executed collection that featured some stunning looks, such as a tracksuit and an A-line dress, the former beaded with a puppy and the latter with a bird on a tree.