Paris Fashion Week SS27 · Runway show Womenswear
Mugler
By Miguel Castro Freitas. 44 looks, shown 4 October 2026 in Paris. Known this season for padding / sculpted volume, sculptural / architectural, dramatic.
The show
The collection, look by look
Womenswear Spring/Summer 2027 · SS27Every 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.
1Look 1 of 44
Silver-grey duchess satin cropped shell and bloomer shorts with sculpted peplum
Couture-weight satin is shrunk into a cropped shell and bloomer-like shorts, the flared hip flange and matching belt giving a playful, almost doll-like proportion offset by a heavy crystal collar.
Who designs Mugler
mugler.com ↗Creative director
Miguel Castro Freitas
Since April 2025 · 1 year
Portuguese
Portuguese designer who became creative director of Mugler in April 2025, succeeding Casey Cadwallader. A 2004 Central Saint Martins womenswear graduate, he worked at Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy and Lanvin, was head of tailoring at Christian Dior under Raf Simons, led womenswear at Dries Van Noten and was creative director of Sportmax. His first Mugler collection showed in Paris.
Their runway style →What set Mugler apart
Over-represented in this house's looks compared with the rest of the season.
The palette
Share of garment area across 44 looks, measured from the clothes (skin and set excluded).
Silhouettes
Share of the 44 tagged looks.
What the collection was made of
Share of the 44 looks described by our AI taggerTraditions in the collection
Cultural influences →1 of Mugler's 95 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs. The house is based in France.
Pankou / frog closures · China · East AsiaLook 1France → China
“Corded loop-and-knot closures spaced down an open centre front, below a standing high collar, recall Chinese pankou fastenings, reworked as an open, skin-baring placket.”
The character of the clothes
Mugler's clothes were darker, more textured, more formal, more daring and more experimental than most of the season.
- DarkerLighterdarker than 79% of collections
- MutedVivid
- CoolerWarmer
- SmoothTextured & printedmore textured than 80% of collections
- CasualFormalmore formal than 87% of collections
- ClassicDaringmore daring than 88% of collections
- ExperimentalWearablemore experimental than 90% of collections
Mugler against every other house measured so far
Also in Paris, Spring/Summer 2027
Paris field notes →The fortnightly digest
Mugler, in context
Every house is measured against every other, across every fashion week. The fortnightly digest sends you what moved, and who moved it.