Issey Miyake’s wind-inspired show takes flight at Paris Fashion Week

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Paris Fashion Week — one of the strongest in seasons. Here are some highlights of Thursday's spring 2025 menswear shows: Miyake takes flight The breathtaking menswear displays in the show “Up, Up, and Away" featured couture-like poetry: seemingly weightless textiles that billowed like parachutes or kites. The garments seemed ready for flight.

In Mobilier National’s cobbled courtyard, the Homme Plissé show Thursday morning took inspiration from all things windy, transforming the elements into wearable art. The collection was a testament to the deft innovations with fabric techniques by Satoshi Kondo and the Homme Plisse design team. A vivid blue coat cut a striking figure, with stiff, angular sleeves that contrasted beautifully with the softness of its pleats.

This was not just a coat, but a sculptural piece that transformed with the air, reminiscent of the house's signature romantic approach to silhouettes. Spring saw garments brought to life, like kites in the sky with voluminous silhouettes created by fastening and unfastening buttons. One standout piece, a pale blue hooded look, billowed like a parachute when the model walked across the cobbled courtyard, its back panels filling with air dramatically.

A beige T-shirt and waistcoat ensemble looked red carpet-ready with its chicly pleated, arrow-thin assorted tie. The spring show was a poetic masterclass in fusing complexity with simplicity, and when the collection entered to rousing applause, the Paris sun finally peeked out from between the clouds. Owens celebrates Hollywood Rick Owens floored guests with a surreal Ben-Hur-style galley theatrical spectacle, like a tableau from a Hollywood epic, as he put on a fashion tribute the “boulevard of vice" and model of