Five new additions to Fashion Week

At the start of the Paris Fashion Week, which takes place from Monday, September 29, 2025 to Tuesday, October 7, 2025, the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode (FHCM) announces five new additions to its calendar. These are Julie Kegels, Ganni, Matières Fécales, Façon Jacmin and Meryll Rogge.

These new additions will present your collections for the spring/summer 2026 season. They come from Belgium, Canada and Denmark and thus underline the international importance of the Paris fashion week.

Julie Kegels shows current Belgian fashion with humor

Julie Kegels will open the Paris fashion week on Monday, September 29, 2025 at 2 p.m., directly to Weinsanto. The young brand was founded in 2024. She already presented her collection called “50/50” in February 2025 in the off program of the Paris fashion week. As a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Kegels initially worked for Meryll Rogge and later with Pieter Mulier near Alaïa before founding her own label.

Your style is contemporary and rather minimalistic. It is visibly inspired by the design. However, what distinguishes it is a touch of humor and surrealism that is typical of Belgian fashion. Typical examples are a blanket that is converted into a skirt or dress, with a label on which “Dream Big, Sleep warm”. Another example is a buttoned pillow that becomes an XXL bag or a top.

Julie Kegels is now sold in selected, internationally renowned multi-brown stores such as Rennaissance in Antwerp, H. Lorenzo in Los Angeles or Estnation in Tokyo.

Ganni relies on the power of American and French investments

The Danish brand Ganni was founded in Copenhagen in 2000. In 2017, the investment fund L Catterton acquired a majority stake of 51 percent on the brand.

L Catterton emerged from a merger between the American company Catterton Partners, founded in 1989, the LVMH group and the Groupe Arnault, the family holding company by Bernard Arnault. This partnership combines the existing private equity activities of Catterton in North and Latin America, which make up sixty percent of the shares. In addition, there are the private equity and real estate activities of LVMH and the Groupe Arnault in Europe and Asia with forty percent. According to LVMH, L Catterton is one of the largest funds specializing in consumer goods.

In 2024, Laura du Rusquec, formerly at Balenciaga, was appointed CEO of Ganni in order to advance the brand’s international growth. She campaigned for Ganni to be included in the calendar and the spring/summer 2026 collection can be presented on Tuesday, September 30th, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ganni’s style is more colorful with Jacquards and floral printing. The label offers numerous accessories and recently presented a collaboration with New Balance. Ganni runs several own shops worldwide.

Matières Fécales: The embodiment of a Gothic trend made in France

Fashionunited already reported on Matières Fécales On the occasion of the Paris fashion week in February 2025. For the spring/summer 2026, the French brand, founded by the Canadian duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, was not surprisingly included in the FHCM calendar. The label will hold its show on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. on Place Vendôme.

The muse of the brand is Michèle Lamy, the partner and employee of Rick Owens. However, the Matières Fécales duo developed an even more extreme gothic fetish aesthetics that is currently trendy. An example of this is the scenography of the collection in the Dover Street Market New York. There the brand created a sculpture by Hannah, which shows it with a clothes rack crashed into the throat.

Matières Fécales is sold on Dover Street Market and on his own website.

Façon Jacmin: Circular and environmentally conscious Flemish fashion

The Façon Jacmin brand from Antwerp was founded in 2016 by the Belgian twin sisters Alexandra and Ségolène Jacmin. They make their debut in the calendar on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, in the form of a presentation. Alexandra Jacmin is a graduate of the La Cambre University in Brussels in the field of fashion design. Then she worked for Maison Margiela and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Ségolène Jacmin has a background in law and management, which makes it the perfect duo for the success of a brand.

Thanks to an upcycling program, Façon Jacmin pursues a circular fashion approach. Thanks to the combination of materials already used with a creative design concept, the brand creates unique clothing for each collection.

The sisters move high-quality fabrics from Italy and mainly select bio-certified cotton and waterless Denim. They work exclusively with production facilities in Europe, especially in Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria.

The brand is distributed via its own website or via L’Exception.

Meryll Rogge: Unconventional and intellectual elegance as an inheritance of the Antwerpen school

The year 2025 was eventful for the Ghent designer, another Flämin. She won the main prize of the Andam competition and was appointed creative director at Marni. Success continues with the inclusion in the FHCM calendar. Your show will take place on Tuesday, October 7th, at 6 p.m.

After studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, she worked for Marc Jacobs in New York for several years. There she was responsible for the design of the women’s collections. Then she switched to Dries van notes. With him, she developed her taste for pattern mixes such as checks with flowers, color combinations such as Parma with turquoise and ocher as well as for layered look.

The brand is already available in renowned international boutiques such as Corso Como in Seoul, Spoon in Italy and Harvey Nichols in London and on the online platform Ssense.