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<p data-start="0" data-end="185" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Pierpaolo Piccioli ushers in a new chapter for Balenciaga with his Spring/Summer 2026 debut.&nbsp;</p>
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<p data-start="0" data-end="262">Balenciaga&rsquo;s Spring/Summer 2026 collection marks a new era for the house&mdash;one defined by <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/pierpaolo-piccioli-balenciaga-creative-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierpaolo Piccioli&rsquo;s</a> precision and reverence for construction. Following <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/balenciaga-fall-2025-haute-couture-collection-looks-demna-gucci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demna&rsquo;s departure</a>, the debut marks a new beginning for the iconic fashion house.&nbsp;</p>
<p data-start="264" data-end="658">Presented inside a reimagined Parisian salon perfumed with the brand&rsquo;s Getaria <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/balenciaga-fragrance-launch-scents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fragrance</a>, the show was less about spectacle and more about substance. Piccioli applied a humanist sensibility to Balenciaga&rsquo;s architectural codes, resulting in a dialogue that plays between restraint and emotion.&nbsp;</p>
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Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2026. Getty Images.

<p data-start="660" data-end="1136">Piccioli&rsquo;s interpretation of Balenciaga felt grounded in motion &mdash; clothes designed not to overpower the wearer but to exist with them. Leather jackets, crisp chinos, and knits formed a vocabulary of modern essentials, yet their proportions and tailoring redefined simplicity as something sculptural. Archival touches, like echoes of Crist&oacute;bal Balenciaga&rsquo;s gazar gowns,&nbsp; appeared reimagined in new materials and techniques.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Rather than paying homage, Piccioli reoriented the brand&rsquo;s philosophy. His <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/balenciaga-spring-summer-2025-pfw-runway-looks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Balenciaga</a> is one where craftsmanship and emotion coexist; where the &ldquo;air between fabric and form,&rdquo; as he describes it, becomes as important as the garment itself. In an industry often chasing shock value, his debut reminded the audience of the quiet power of intention.&nbsp;</p>

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s First Balenciaga Collection Arrives

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