PARIS — There will be no time for Blue Monday this January if the provisional men’s schedule released by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode is anything to go by.
A total of 74 houses are slated to unveil their fall 2024 collections through 42 shows and 32 presentations. The season will kick off on Jan. 16 with the 4:30 p.m. show of LMVH Prize finalist Burç Akyol and close on Jan. 21 with the 7 p.m. return of GmbH.
Back on the Parisian runway for the first time since 2020 and the onset of the pandemic are Valentino and Balmain, both on Jan. 20 at 6 and 8:30 p.m. respectively. In the interim, the Roman house showed in Milan in June, shining a spotlight on its men’s line after three years of coed runways, while Olivier Rousteing’s menswear designs were revealed through showroom appointments.
After the spring’s golden moment on the Pont Neuf and a breezy nautical pre-fall in Hong Kong, Pharrell Williams’ third offering as Louis Vuitton’s menswear creative director will be unveiled on Jan. 16 at 8 p.m.
While Givenchy and creative director Matthew M. Williams are parting ways on Jan. 1, the French house will be showing the fall 2024 collection designed by its studio on the runway at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 17.
Overall, the provisional Paris Fashion Week calendar for men’s offered few changes, save for the move of Rick Owens to 10 a.m. on Jan. 18, with Issey Miyake taking the 12:30 p.m. spot.
Three brands will be graduating to on-schedule runway formats: Japan’s Auralee, designed by Ryota Iwai; Winnie, the four-year-old brand of Idris Balogun, and Shanghai-based veteran designer Ziggy Chen.
Making their first official presentations are Meta Campania Collective, augmenting its genderless quiet take on luxury with a full women’s offering; Ouest Paris, for the fifth collection of designer Arthur Robert, and Kartik Research, the craft-focused menswear label of self-taught designer and LVMH Prize semifinalist Kartik Kumra.
Among those sitting out this men’s session are Études, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, who is expected to show his fall 2024 collection in February, and Marine Serre. Serre announced separately on Monday she would unveil her men’s designs through a look book and put on a women’s show during Paris’ ready-to-wear schedule.
