For Longchamp’s fall/winter 2026 season, Sophie Delafontaine looks to the insatiably curious Parisienne, a woman whose travels feed back into the clothes she reaches for. Titled Creative Curiosity, the collection carries that sense of discovery into the wardrobe, where the idea of a journey settles most clearly in the clothes and accessories.
Within the ready-to-wear range, the French luxury brand moves towards an outdoors-minded offering with workwear references pulled into the house’s city register. Silhouettes come with a fuller line, especially in outerwear, while the palette stays close to mineral neutrals before lifting into pastel shades. The clothes have a useful attitude, with Delafontaine keeping the finish light enough for the city. The sharper read to this chapter sits in the leather goods, where lucky charms are worked onto bags akin to keepsakes from a trip. Patent leather brings a gentle shine, while suede gives the pieces a softer handle. Embossed surfaces and metallic finishes sharpen the winter palette, with shades such as matcha green and sky blue adding colour to the mix.
A more artful note also comes through the work of embroidery artist Caroline Hélain, whose abstract textile landscapes bring in the idea of escape. And at La Maison Unique in SoHo, Thomas Heatherwick’s green staircase becomes another point of reference, bringing the store’s undulating steel architecture into the range’s visual world.
Delafontaine’s curious woman comes through most clearly in the details that sit close to daily life, from a charm that gives a bag the feeling of something picked up along the way to textured finishes that carry that same sense of travel through the wider wardrobe, letting the idea of discovery sit in the details.
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