Since January 2020, the FHCM has operated the Sphere Paris Fashion Week Showroom, with the support of DEFI and L’Oréal Paris. Sphere is part of its mission to support emerging designers. It brings together a group of brands selected for their creativity and development potential.
The Womenswear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 showroom session will take place at the Palais de Tokyo from Wednesday, March 4 to Tuesday, March 10, 2026. A digital version will also be available by invitation with the help of New Black from March 4.
This season, the Sphere Paris Fashion Week Showroom will feature: Act N°1, J. Simone, Matho, Riz Poli, Sevali, Sonney, Vautrait, Victor Clavelly, and Weinsanto.
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ACT N°1
Founded in 2016, Act N°1 offers an aesthetic inspired by the founders’ childhood memories, envisioned as life’s first act. Their collections blend tailoring, painted silks, tulle, and hybrid garments with sculpted volumes. Both punk and refined, the Act N°1 aesthetic combines artisanal rigor with a contemporary attitude. The construction of the pieces prioritizes direct workshop craftsmanship: torn materials, visible assembly, and a play of contrasts between the raw and the precious. Featured on the Official Milan Fashion Week Calendar, Luca Lin’s brand has established itself as a unique voice in young Italian design.
J. SIMONE
Jude Ferrari, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, founded J.Simone in Paris in 2023 with a bold ambition to challenge conventional notions of taste. She describes the brand’s world as a “Cronut”: a fusion between the elegance of a Parisian croissant and the glittery playfulness of a sugar-coated donut. Rooted in responsible craftsmanship, J.Simone embraces sustainability through techniques such as upcycling and the use of deadstock fabrics. This approach reflects a desire to merge creativity, textile innovation, and environmental consciousness. J.Simone's wardrobe stands out for its vibrant colours and irreverent tone, embodying a spirit of fearless creativity.
MATHO
Founded by Léa Mathonière Fallot, a graduate of École Duperré and the Institut Français de la Mode, Matho reinterprets ready-to-wear through the sensuality of knitwear conceived as an alternative skin. Her work is rooted in an exploration of organic forms that trace and enhance the body’s lines. Matho combines the ancestral craft of knitting with experimental techniques such as 3D printing, sublimation, and pigment spraying, creating trompe-l’œil effects and hybrid textures. Recognized during its incubation at IFM’s Fashion Entrepreneurship Center with the AMI x IFM 2025 Prize, the brand embodies a modern and committed vision of fashion, where the rigor of craftsmanship meets sculptural elegance.
RIZ POLI
Chen Xu graduated from ESMOD Paris in 2016. He began his career at Y/Project alongside Glenn Martens, a defining experience that shaped his eye for structure, volume, and deconstruction. In 2022, he launched Riz Poli in Paris. Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s poem “Ode to Bread”, the brand explores an urban and structured wardrobe, infused with intimate narratives and a keen sensitivity to everyday life. Each collection captures a fragment of lived experience, blending contemporary femininity, club culture, and social poetry to create a deeply personal yet collective journey. Through a multidisciplinary lens, Riz Poli positions fashion at the intersection of body, art, and society.
SEVALI
Sevali, founded in 2019 by Chilean designer Sebastian A. de Ruffray, is a Parisian brand that explores upcycling through a work of deconstruction and reinterpretation of garment codes. Using traditional techniques, the brand transforms existing materials into unique pieces. Each collection questions our relationship with clothing by incorporating imperfection as a design element. Sevali anchors its creation in experimentation, where the manufacturing process directly shapes the aesthetics of the garment. The brand asserts local production and a reflection on sustainability.
SONNEY
Lora Sonney is a 2021 graduate of Head-Geneva. After working for Marine Serre, Celine and Jakob Schlaepfer, she developed a structured and versatile wardrobe, combining utilitarian influences with fluid cuts and a vibrant palette. A finalist at the Hyères Festival in 2022, she then signed a capsule collection with AZ Factory in 2023. The following year, she was awarded the IFM x AMI Prize. Drawing on her native Jura landscapes, she explores new materials by transforming everyday objects into innovative textiles. Through this approach, Lora Sonney develops her aesthetic universe, where textile innovation and functionality combine to give life to a poetic wardrobe.
VAUTRAIT
Yonathan Carmel founded Vautrait in 2021. The brand takes its name from one of its ancestors. The designer places craftsmanship and tailoring at the heart of his approach. Each piece is the fruit of traditional techniques and becomes a place where time, memory, and modernity meet. Preserving this know-how goes beyond the garment itself: it also means ensuring that the skills and knowledge of those who make it are passed on. Vautrait defends a fashion style that values authenticity and the natural patina of time. In September 2024, the brand joined the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week. That same year, it was a semi-finalist in the LVMH Prize.
VICTOR CLAVELLY
A graduate of the École Duperré, Victor Clavelly pursues a singular approach to clothing at the crossroads of fashion, technology, and sustainability. Founded in Paris in 2021, the brand explores the opportunities provided by additive manufacturing applied to textiles. The result is a language of clothing that combines the sculptural, the hybrid, and the experimental. Each collection is part of a process of formal and narrative research, like a fragment of an expanding fictional universe. The garment becomes the result of an experiment. Somewhere between trompe-l’œil and metamorphosis, Victor Clavelly affirms its desire to broaden the scope of what is possible in fashion. In 2023, the brand joined the incubator of the Institut Français de la Mode.
WEINSANTO
A graduate of the Atelier Chardon Savard, Victor Brunstein founded Weinsanto, the name of his maternal grandmother, in 2020 with the support of the Dover Street Market Paris incubator. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as an assistant designer for Jean Paul Gaultier, perfecting his skills and craftsmanship while unlocking his creativity. A semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2022, he infuses his designs with the ideas of movement. A former dancer, he finds inspiration in the living arts. Each of his collections is seen as a stage production, that of his inspiration, his friends, and muses.
Sphere Paris Fashion Week @ Showroom – Fall Winter 2026-27
MARCH 04 - 10, 2026 -> Palais de Tokyo - 75116 Paris
MARCH 04 - 17, 2026 > Showroom Online Access
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