With so much of the spring 2026 schedule in flux when the time came to pick venues, dates and times, Paula Canovas del Vas found the perfect solution: staging her spring collection reveal in a truck, which she could parked on any Paris street.

“I feel like we’re just living in such polarized worlds that I wanted to bring that into the concept for the collection, into the clothes as well,” she said.

The truck was kitted out with a fully tiled bathroom complete with a tub, toilet and sink, and models did “things we do in the bathroom that feel wrong,” like giving a T-shirt a sniff test, having a bite to eat or holding a powwow with friends.

The collection leaned further into dichotomies. Dresses with straightforward cuts festooned with exuberant handmade pompoms, while more casual options like handkerchief-hem skirts came in a patchwork of shirting, shirtdresses looked spray-painted with floral prints and barrel-shaped joggers had a tuxedo-style ruffle curling from the hip to the front of the leg.

Woven into the season was also a commentary on intimacy, gender and vulnerability, at a time where once-private moments have become spectacle.

Holding interviews outside an RV serving as the backstage, there was also one dichotomy Canovas del Vas wanted to point out. “I work with amazing [women] and this is very important for me given a context where every one of the heads of the big houses is a man,” she said.