As models walk their final runways and editors catch evening flights out of Paris Fashion Week, this week’s standout beauty looks appear almost deceptively straightforward. The fall-winter 2026 season’s best antidote to doomscrolling, for example, is simply getting lost in a novel, according to models backstage at Isabel Marant, who shared their book-club recommendations with Vogue Beauty. Then, there were the simple part switches that hair artists Duffy sent out at Saint Laurent and Anthony Turner slicked down at Hermès and Acne Studios. At long last, the once-mocked side part returned to its full prominence (a styling detail Vogue spotted coming seasons ago).
After plenty of spooky, gothy notes in New York and sooty, smoked-out looks in Milan, Paris washed the slate clean except for hints of leftover liner from makeup artist Peter Philips at Dior and morning-after makeup from Pat McGrath at Schiaparelli. Sparkling hair adornments leveled things up, whether through Turner’s extensions wrapped in gilded hair jewelry at Chloé or the glittering hair tinsel Duffy wove through lengths at Chanel. It’s enough to encourage anyone to grab a bauble, a brooch, and a bunch of bobby pins and try something new.
Here are three ways to start living in this season’s beauty, according to the Paris shows.
Hair Adornments
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Photo: Courtesy of Chloé
The high-low hair adornment has arrived. At Chanel, Duffy attached thousands of tiny strands of tinsel to models’ hairlines to create what appeared to be holographic comb marks, while at Celine, a simple cord wrapped around a model’s forehead was all he required. At Dries Van Noten, hair artist Olivier Schawalder secured hundreds of shining bobby pins atop models’ heads, occasionally adding golden jewels over the ears. And Turner, undoubtedly one of the busiest artists of the season, incorporated an elven headpiece at Ann Demeulemeester after adding jewel-wrapped extensions he called “memories tied into hair” at Chloé, where he carried a can of L’Oréal Paris Elnett hairspray in his back pocket. Chemena Kamali’s inspiration was a woman discovering the world and herself, says Turner. “The hair was meant to reflect her journey through the elements,” he explains. “We included a braid in the hair, which was adorned with Chloé jewelry—I like to think that this represents trinkets she finds on her travels and attaches them to her hair.”