Paris Fashion Week: The best SS27 looks from Balenciaga, Chloé, Schiaparelli and Rick Owens

South China Morning Post - Oct 2, 2026

Day four of Paris Fashion Week was filled with back-to-back shows and presentations. The longest day of the week began with Chloé at 10am and ended 12 hours later with a glamorous show by jewellery house Messika. Here’s what you need to know about the four biggest shows of the day. When Schiaparelli’s creative director Daniel Roseberry started designing ready-to-wear for the haute couture house in 2023, he set out to build the foundations and codes of today’s Schiaparelli, a historic brand that...

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