Dance, eighteenth century echoes, transparency, bows, knitwear and layered silhouettes shape the visual language of Alainpaul’s Fall/Winter 2026 collection ‘RÉPERTOIRE’.
With ‘RÉPERTOIRE’, the Fall/Winter 2026 collection by Alain Paul, the designer continues his exploration of choreography and garment construction. The Paris based designer, who launched his label in 2023 after working at Vetements and Louis Vuitton, often draws on his background in dance to shape the way clothes frame the body.
Presented inside the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the collection emerged from a dialogue with the museum’s archives and its exhibition dedicated to life in the eighteenth century. As Paul explained backstage, eighteenth century bodies were highly staged and carefully postured, an idea that resonates with his interest in movement and the way clothes frame the body in space.
The show opened with pannier inspired silhouettes in fluid viscose crepe, allowing volume to move with the body. It closed with a top referencing the corps à baleine, the precursor to the corset, revisited with contemporary boning developed with knitwear specialist Cécile Feilchenfeldt.
Between these moments, Paul explored archive references through materials and surfaces. Tapestry motifs were reworked with Teintures de France, whose Stratasys 3D printer reproduced part of a pattern on denim, creating a textured relief. Floral decoration appeared as blurred prints on a sculptural white top and as showers of blooms across long dresses with enveloping shoulders and arms, which the designer described as a meditation on freedom and constriction.
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