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Fashion month always saves the best for last. Here in the City of Lights, Paris Fashion Week is closing out a month-long fashion fête with beautiful collections and star-studded runways. From Dior, where Rihanna made a jaw-dropping appearance (quelle surprise!), to A-listers walking at Off-White, and Botter designers Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter paying tribute to their Caribbean culture in innovative ways, shows are returning to their pre-COVID glory (safely). 

Ahead, check out GRAZIA USA’s favorite runway looks from Paris Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2022 straight from the audience. Make sure to check back for updates as the week progresses.

Sacai

Love, fidelity, friendship — values that have always been at the heart of Sacai, and are more important today than ever in our world. And what better way to express love than with Cartier? Founder and creative director Chitose Abe, used her Fall-Winter 2022 collection to debut the six-piece Cartier for Chitose Abe of Sacai collection including a ring, bracelet, earrings and necklace.

“The designer’s admiration for re-imagining quintessential forms.” read the show notes. “Abe’s enchantment with the story of Cartier’s Trinity and the sentiments of love, fidelity and friendship on which it is founded, leads to a play with the near century old form, exploring how the shape changes in movement – the distance between the rings serving as a metaphor for the tension between the values of fidelity and betrayal – capturing and freezing it as if in motion.”

Givenchy

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Incorporating his music industry roots, Matthew M. Williams hosted his Fall-Winter 2022 collection with a 45-minute trip outside of Paris at La Defense stadium. Continuing his signature blend of streetwear meets luxury high-fashion the creative director drew inspiration from the house’s archives. From iconic pearl designs reminiscent of founder Hubert de Givenchy work with Audrey Hepburn to extremely well-detailed evening dress, there were also contemporary graphic tees, baggy jeans, and sweatshirts on the runway.

Balenciaga

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Demna’s Fall-Winter 2022 collection is probably his most personal yet. The designer, who has taken the heritage fashion house into a new, sought-after era, drew inspiration from fearlessness, resistance, and the victory of love and peace. “The war in Ukraine has triggered the pain of a past trauma I have carried in me since 1993, when the same thing happened in my home country and I became a forever refugee.” revealed Demna in the show notes. “Forever, because that’s something that stays in you. The fear, the desperation, the realization that no one wants you. But I also realized what really matters in life, the most important things, like life itself and human love and compassion.”

Valentino

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Pierpaolo Piccioli’s collection looked at life through fuchsia-colored glasses. Almost every look from the 80-piece collection was in a vibrant pink hue, aside from a few black pieces. As the collection debuted, you couldn’t help but reminisce of the “Think Pink” scene in Audrey Hepburn’s 1957 film Funny Face. If there’s ever a modern revival of the film, Piccioli certainly made it easy for the costume designer.

MÔNOT

The MÔNOT woman is elegant yet daring. Sophisticated but bold. Modern but timeless–and Artistic Director Eli Mizrahi managed to fuse all into one for his recent Fall-Winter 2022 collection. Inspired by his own cross-Atlantic upbringing, Mizrahi imagined the collection across three capitals, New York, Paris, and Beirut, interpreting the femme fatales of each timezone in familiar silhouettes, including the LBD and three-piece suit.

Loewe

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For Fall-Winter 2022, Loewe dived into the subversion of kink and sexual exploration. Creative director J.W. Anderson fused unlikely materials including latex, tweed, silk, and knitwear together in surrealist silhouettes. Standouts included a hot pink dress with a lip motif breastplate. Other memorable looks came in the form of a dress that draped into a car and the label’s iconic trompe-l’oeil pieces.

Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood

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Set in a stunning 1890s theater, designer Vivienne Westwood’s faithful companion, Andreas Kronthaler, debuted a collection that took show-goers back to the golden age of theater and grand fashion (furry boas included). The collection perfectly fit the quintessential Westwood DNA, with new exciting knee-high boots added to the eclectic fun.

Isabel Marant

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Isabel Marant stays true to her brand DNA. For her eponymous labels Fall-Winter collection, the designer continued her love for cozy elevated essentials with a hint of sparkle. “Getting dressed is a simple and comforting gesture, putting on a men’s jacket or an oversized coat over a skinny little dress, betting on the coziness of a cuddly knit dress paired with Motocross-inspired thigh-high boots.”

Ludovic de Saint Sernin

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The young designer is known for his signature pieces that don’t follow any gender constructs. From the euphoric haze of a hedonistic rave, LdSS doppelgängers (or wait, are they?) step out in pieces that bare and celebrate the body: wraparound crop tops in wrinkled black and khaki silk crepe; monogram-lasered low-rise denim jeans with peeling crystals; a Swarovski fish-net boleros and a chainlink halterneck plastron; slim stretch-leather trousers; and body-swaddling skirts and cropped dresses.

Chloé

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Sustainability has been priority number one for Chloé’s creative director Gabriella Hearst — both for the luxury label and her own eponymous brand. Chloé looks at the climate solution known as Rewilding for Fall-Winter 2022, a progressive approach to conservation that centers on allowing nature to take care of itself. By enabling natural processes to repair damaged ecosystems and restore degraded landscapes, wildlife’s natural rhythms can ultimately create more biodiverse habitats.

Balmain

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A model walks the runway during the Balmain Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Balmain opened with a riveting visual performance before debuting the luxury maison’s Fall-Winter 2022 collection. Creative director Olivier Rousteign’s designs typically derive from his personal experiences and the strength of those around him through motifs of body armor and tactical design elements to make up his “Balmain army.” Given the current crisis in Ukraine, Rousteing expressed his sentiment for the Ukrainian people and optimistic hope for the future. “These runway offerings were not designed as a direct response to the recent horrific invasion of our neighbors, and I would never dare to even think of comparing the suffering that they are going through right now with the problems that I have had on social media,” read the show notes. “Still, as we watch the news, my team and I do keep in mind this collection’s message: united in solidarity, we can rely on the power of hope and truth to push back against hate, lies, and aggression.”

Saint Laurent

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A model walks the runway during the Saint Laurent Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 1, 2022 in Paris, France.

At Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello brought back Old World ’20s and ’30s glamour with a modern twist. In the show notes, the brand mentions that Nancy Cunard, “the independent-minded activist publisher who dressed audaciously ahead of her time⁠, giving a masculine wardrobe her own indelible imprint” served as a “guiding template.” Vaccarello continued to blend the lines of gender through fluid silhouettes. A standout from the collection was an oversized fur coat, a staple of the Art Deco era woman but sustainably made with faux fur, an ethos of the modern-day woman.

Dior

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A model walks the runway during the Dior Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 01, 2022 in Paris, France.

Day two of Paris Fashion Week, is always known as Dior day. Keeping up with the times, creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri opened the show with high-tech designs that slowly transitioned into notable staples of the luxury maison. The futuristic garments showed Grazia Chiuri’s continued love for motorsports while also revealing a brand collab. The opening looks were in collaboration with start-up company D-Air Lab, responsible for the suits scientists wear to work in arctic temperatures.  

Botter

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A model walks the runway during the Botter Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 1, 2022 in Paris, France.

Between the ongoing pandemic and war on Ukraine, designers Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter took time to pause and reflect on today’s current events in the show notes guests received as they entered the venue. “We are living through emotionally charged and surreal times,” the notes read. The collection itself came together in a stunning tribute to their Caribbean roots of Curaçao and the Dominican Republic — a standout being hair beads made from ocean plastic waste that formed into a top.

Off-White

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Naomi Campbell walks the runway during the Off-White Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show Spaceship Earth: An “Imaginary Experience” at Palais Brongniart during Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2022 in Paris, France.

Opening up Paris Fashion Week, Off-White pulled out all the stops (we never expect anything less!). The show opened with the late Virgil Abloh’s final ready-to-wear collection for the label and concluded with a parade of couture gowns worn by a star-studded model line-up including Naomi Campbell, Serena Williams, Bella Hadid, Cindy Crawford, and daughter Kaia Gerber.