Fashion Week Studio Returns to the Shangri-La Paris
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here are moments during Paris Fashion Week when the city’s well-worn rhythm of runway and rendezvous pauses. When an event feels less like another date in the schedule and more like an intimate summons to beauty itself. This October, one such moment will unfold behind the stately façade of the Shangri-La Paris, where Fashion Week Studio stages its latest showcase of emerging global talent.
For two days, the former palace of Prince Roland Bonaparte will open its gilded salons to a select circle of editors, buyers, and connoisseurs. The setting alone is enough to stir a certain quiet awe: marble staircases that spiral into frescoed ceilings; windows framing the Eiffel Tower and the languid sweep of the Seine; gilding that catches the afternoon light as if Paris itself were leaning in to listen. It is a space steeped in 19th-century grandeur, yet made for contemporary storytelling. An apt stage for Fashion Week Studio’s vision of couture as a meeting point between history, culture, and daring imagination.
This October’s edition reads like an atlas in fabric. Designers from Albania to Namibia, Tokyo to Texas, arrive with collections that distill personal heritage into wearable form. Each comes not merely to present clothing, but to offer a fragment of narrative. Wedding memories sewn into silk, ancestral craft reimagined for the street, childhood dreams transformed into tulle and organza.
Among them, Class by Alketa Vejsiu of Albania, helmed creatively by Livia Myftari, will bring gowns born in an atelier where every seam is a testament to meticulous hands and sourced-from-Europe luxury.
From Japan, Haruka Aya’s romantic silhouettes and Mee Dress’s philosophy of kindness-through-couture promise collections with emotional resonance. Noriko Kikuchi, fresh from Vancouver Fashion Week and designing for Miss Europe Continental 2025, adds a costume-maker’s instinct for drama and precision.
American entries range from A Tangerine Design, whose evolution from children’s luxury into sophisticated womenswear carries a generational warmth, to Ruemonge De Seine, a label that imagines streetwear with the stillness and polish of quiet luxury. From Peru, Elizabeth Muñoz returns to the Paris runway with bridal couture that speaks in the language of grace and authenticity. Namibia’s House of Poulton will bring the textures of its native landscape into airy, ethereal ready-to-wear.
Even the most playful offerings are not without craft: Moa Ikumi’s storybook children’s pieces and Peach & Penny’s sparkled nostalgia remind that fashion can be as magical as it is meticulous. Others, like Turkey’s Heva Couture and Mexico’s Nora Parada, embrace structure and ceremony in gowns designed for life’s defining moments.
In the realm of reinvention, Japan’s Ay upcycles rare Isesaki Meisen silks into contemporary silhouettes. A literal act of “wearing culture”. While NINJA TOKYO redefines menswear with the discreet allure of the shinobi, crafting clothing as a form of modern armor.
The PELLONE Collection, making its Paris debut, completes the lineup with unapologetic color and movement, a visual crescendo to a two-day program designed for impact.
Beyond the Runway
Since 2017, Fashion Week Studio has quietly mastered a formula that larger houses sometimes overlook: small-scale, high-impact presentation in venues that frame each collection as art. Its 250-plus shows across Paris, Milan, London, and Lake Como have become a proving ground for designers at the cusp of international recognition. At the Shangri-La, the intimacy of the rooms ensures each garment is seen not from the back row through a camera lens, but at the sweep of a sleeve’s distance, the brush of silk close enough to hear.
The choice of venue is more than aesthetic. The Shangri-La’s layered history. Royal residence turned registered historic monument. Mirrors the layered narratives in the garments themselves. In this space, a Namibian ruffle can stand alongside a Japanese silk revival, an Albanian gown alongside an American streetwear silhouette, each part of a broader conversation about where fashion has been and where it will go next.
In the crowded calendar of Paris Fashion Week, where blockbuster shows battle for spectacle, Fashion Week Studio’s October showcase offers something more rare: the feeling of being in the room where something begins. It is fashion stripped of the jostle of the masses, restored to the intimacy of couture’s origins. Designer, garment, wearer, and story, all within arm’s reach.
For those who understand that the truest luxury is not simply owning beautiful things, but witnessing beauty at the moment it is born.
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