Paris fashion week spring-summer 2023: highlights — in pictures

Van Noten is back with a show that felt like a celebration of optimism, aptly titled Darkness into the Light. The collection evolves in three parts: from the purity of black, the suggestion of color in faded pastels and a new rendering of the floral print. Texture, structure and silhouettes sent a graphic message, appearing in precision suits fastened with a glass-head pin and sculptural waist dresses. Ending with an explosion of floral prints, manipulated to scale, the effect was a mass of patterns, where prints and textures collided