Paris Fashion Week FW26 · Runway show Womenswear
Barbara Bui
By Barbara Bui. 36 looks, shown 7 March 2026 in Paris. Known this season for savile row tailoring, quiet luxury, cropped / buzzed.
The collection, look by look
Womenswear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 · FW26Every look in runway order as a column of the colours measured from its garments. Hover or use the arrow keys to read each one; play to walk the show.
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Cropped brown leather trench jacket over green midi skirt, shirt and tie
The trench is cut down to a boxy cropped jacket in supple leather, then grounded with a sober shirt-and-tie and a bottle-green midi. It reads as a polished, tonal take on menswear codes.
Who designs Barbara Bui
barbarabui.com ↗Founder and designer
Barbara Bui
Since 1987 · about 39 years
French, born 1956
Born in Paris to a Vietnamese father and a French mother, Bui studied literature at the Sorbonne. In the early 1980s she ran Kabuki, a boutique on rue de Turbigo selling her own work beside other young designers. She launched her own label with a Paris runway show in 1987, and the company was later listed on the Paris stock exchange.
Their runway style →What set Barbara Bui apart
Over-represented in this house's looks compared with the rest of the season.
The palette
Share of garment area across 36 looks, measured from the clothes (skin and set excluded).
Silhouettes
Share of the 36 tagged looks.
What the collection was made of
Share of the 36 looks described by our AI taggerThe character of the clothes
Barbara Bui's clothes were darker, more muted, smoother, more formal, more classic and more wearable than most of the season.
- DarkerLighterdarker than 94% of collections
- MutedVividmore muted than 98% of collections
- CoolerWarmer
- SmoothTextured & printedsmoother than 93% of collections
- CasualFormalmore formal than 77% of collections
- ClassicDaringmore classic than 87% of collections
- ExperimentalWearablemore wearable than 88% of collections
Barbara Bui against every other house measured so far
Also in Paris, Fall/Winter 2026
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Barbara Bui, in context
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