“CROSSROADS” FW26 COLLECTION
The MAITREPIERRE Fall/Winter 2026 collection, entitled “Crossroads,” takes a contemplative look at fashion, its codes, and the people who embrace it and stroll through the city to bring it to life.
At the crossroads of MAITREPIERRE’s inspirations, this collection is a manifesto of the brand’s DNA, but also reveals its love for combining opposites: past/future, couture/ready-to-wear, thickness/lightness, color/sobriety, innovation/archives. Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s science fiction film “Alphaville,” this wardrobe invites us to dream and be sensitive in an attempt to escape the gloom of everyday life.
By favoring erasers rather than pencils, this collection takes a minimalist turn and focuses on familiar materials and understated tones. Everything is rooted in everyday life, like a ray of light at the corner of the street. The collection is soft, luminous, and aspirational. The materials are those we have been wearing since childhood, the volumes are soft and generous, the silhouette unique and geometric. Stripes create the illusion of intersecting streets, winter jackets invite the codes of an outdated polo shirt, the ball gown becomes a tracksuit, our scarves from the past come together to form a single coat. The accessories, created in collaboration with artist Clara Besnard, also embrace this gentle madness: glasses lose their usefulness and become masks, while strands of color are transformed into earrings.
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Photos: Dominique Maitre
As ambassador for NONA Source, the brand remains committed to its neutrality goals, with 100% of the collection made from dead stock, waste, or certified materials.
KIKO MILANO reaffirms its passionate commitment and proven expertise in the fields of art, design, and fashion by renewing its partnership with MAITREPIERRE, an alliance that has been in place since 2021. The makeup created by Ruby Mazuel accentuates the models’ eyes with graphic liner and also includes coordinated lips.
With meticulous attention to detail, Yumiko Hikage designs and creates sophisticated hairstyles alongside SHU UEMURA Art of Hair, a benchmark in the world of beauty thanks to its refinement and traditional Japanese expertise since 1983. The strands intertwine to create checkerboard patterns reminiscent of the intersecting lines of the silhouettes, while preserving texture thanks to unique formulas and products that transform the material with lightness.
As Paul Eluard said about Godard’s Alphaville:
Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers’ dialogue
The heart has but one mouth
Everything by chance
All words without thought
Sentiments adrift
A glance, a word, because I love you
Everything moves
We must advance to live
Aim straight ahead toward those you love
