Paula Canovas Del Vas SS26

If you've ever wondered what it looks like for girls to get ready for a night out, now you don't have to wonder anymore. Paula Canovas del Vas brought that experience straight onto the streets of Paris, quite literally, parking her vignette truck outside a quintessentially Parisian café. The scene unfolded inside a transformed mobile bathroom, where three girls enjoyed their ritual of getting ready, chatting, and simply existing together in their own beautiful, unguarded rhythm. This was no ordinary show. For SS26, Paula Canovas del Vas unveiled “Private Matters”, a provocative public intervention that blurred boundaries between what we perform and what we conceal. The collection examined the tension between intimacy and visibility; how dressing, grooming, and preparing ourselves, once wholly private acts, have evolved into performances of identity shaped by constant exposure. By reimagining a bathroom, the most intimate of spaces, as a stage, Paula makes us rethink what it means to be seen and who controls the right to privacy in a culture that trades vulnerability for visibility.

Each detail reflected the designer’s intricate sculptural vocabulary. One-off pieces came alive through hand cut jersey strips formed into lush pompoms that oscillated between whimsy and rebellion. Laser printed denim and embroidered surfaces created textural contrasts, while slinky deconstructed knitwear slipped across the body with deliberate irregularity, a study on exposure and protection. The dialogue extended to footwear, where Paula’s sculptural approach redefined the Converse Chuck 70 and All Star XX Hi silhouettes. Twisting them with intricate 3D florals and herringbone detailing, the collaboration celebrated individuality through the language of craft and customization.

“In a world where exposure is currency, privacy becomes an act of resistance,” Paula reflected. And in this display, that resistance felt quietly powerful. The elongated jersey skirts wrapped and twisted like living forms, offering movement and concealment in equal measure. The essence of self reclamation, the freedom to choose softness is what lingered long after the final model stepped out of the showered scene.

Through “Private Matters”, Paula Canovas del Vas invites us to reexamine the spectacle of self in an age where everything personal is public by design. The show captured both rebellion and reflection, an insistence on vulnerability as strength. Conscious style that rethinks how we present ourselves, not for the sake of performance, but for the sake of authenticity.