New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- After the hydrangeas settled, Paris traded spectacle for precision-square shoulders, lined sheers, and bags built for real life.

Paris - Paris Fashion Week closed with the feeling of a city resetting its compass, not with a single show but with a sequence of debuts, second chapters, and carefully edited statements about what clothing is supposed to do next spring. The mood across runways and presentations was assertive, pragmatic, sometimes sentimental, and at key moments spectacular. Designers leaned into structure, clarity and surface interest, while a flurry of leadership handovers gave audiences something rarer in fashion than novelty: a plan. As the schedule wound down, a debut-heavy end note to fashion month f...