Every season with Nicolas Di Felice feels like watching Courrèges take one more confident step into the present. Spring/Summer 2026 wasn’t just a show, it was a temperature rising — literally. The venue, the Carreau du Temple, was turned from its usual square into a glowing circle, a deliberate choice to stage a collection that moved in phases, from the cool of dawn to the heat of midday. The invitations came with sunglasses, which turned out to be necessary: by the finale, the lights were so strong you were nearly squinting.
The collection built like a solar cycle. It began in icy tones, teal, navy, sheer layers that clung and then gradually warmed up. By twenty-four degrees, swimsuits fused into skirts, bodies revealed by deep cutouts, belts looping low on the waist in a nod to André Courrèges’ 1960s codes. By twenty-six, volumes expanded: safari jackets, rolled-up sportswear, inseparable skirt-shorts swirling around. At thirty, it was sunset colours, and dresses made from sunshade frames that looked futuristic but carried a practical edge, like shielding the body from too much light or heat.
What Di Felice does so well is keep Courrèges sharp without overcomplicating it. The cuts are minimal but never sterile, and there’s always a pulse of sex appeal underneath. A coat unzipped to flash bare skin, a black mini trailing a floor-length train, little jolts that keep the futurism alive, but with a wink. Accessories followed the same logic: sunglasses, flat boots, glove-like slingbacks, and new supple leather bags with loose straps, wearable but with that Courrèges polish.
And beyond the design, it’s the atmosphere. The music, co-composed by Di Felice himself and Erwan Sene, rose with the ‘temperature’ of the collection, feeling the tension as the degrees went higher.
Since taking the reins in 2020, Di Felice has turned Courrèges into one of Paris’s most anticipated shows, and S/S 2026 proved why. It’s precise, it’s edited, it’s confident. In a season full of debuts and houses trying to find their new footing, Courrèges didn’t flinch — it just kept climbing toward the sun.
