Paula Canovas del Vas Spring 2026: Bathroom Break
With so much of the spring 2026 schedule in flux when the time came to pick venues, dates and times, Paula Canovas del Vas found the perfect solution: staging her spring collection reveal in a truck, which she could parked on any Paris street.
“I feel like we’re just living in such polarized worlds that I wanted to bring that into the concept for the collection, into the clothes as well,” she said.
The truck was kitted out with a fully tiled bathroom complete with a tub, toilet and sink, and models did “things we do in the bathroom that feel wrong,” like giving a T-shirt a sniff test, having a bite to eat or holding a powwow with friends.
The collection leaned further into dichotomies. Dresses with straightforward cuts festooned with exuberant handmade pompoms, while more casual options like handkerchief-hem skirts came in a patchwork of shirting, shirtdresses looked spray-painted with floral prints and barrel-shaped joggers had a tuxedo-style ruffle curling from the hip to the front of the leg.
Woven into the season was also a commentary on intimacy, gender and vulnerability, at a time where once-private moments have become spectacle.
Holding interviews outside an RV serving as the backstage, there was also one dichotomy Canovas del Vas wanted to point out. “I work with amazing and this is very important for me given a context where every one of the heads of the big houses is a man,” she said.
