On International Olympic Day, Vogue World took over the last day of Paris Fashion Week’s menswear collections with a show-cum-spectacle themed around the Olympics to celebrate 100 years of French fashion. Singer Aya Nakamura warbled. Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid rode horses along the catwalk.
Sports stars Venus and Serena Williams modeled on the cobbles with added surprise appearances from pop singers Sabrina Carpenter and Katy Perry at Paris' Place Vendome. The rare event blended athleticism, French fashion, and pure, unadulterated razzmatazz from the past century — marking 100 years since the last Games in Paris in 1924. The event also referred back to June 23, 1894, the day on which the founder of the modern Olympics, French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, launched the International Olympic Committee.
More than 151 models and 188 athletes took part in the show. Matching different sports to different eras and styles, the high-octane collection extravaganza felt like a polished Broadway musical — with amazing clothes — as the sun set on Paris’ magnificent Place Vendome. For the third Vogue World event, following a New York street fair in 2022 and a tribute to London’s theater scene in 2023, the show dovetailed with the Paris Games — celebrating all things French and runway.
Fashion designs were showcased to a backdrop of tap dancing, pirouetting red-wine-holding waiters, and even models clutching baguettes. Tracing a century, each decade was paired with a design.
