With 29 brands and two new entrants, the Paris Haute Couture season looks buoyant for January

Global luxury crisis or not, with 29 couturiers and two new participants included in the official calendar, the Paris Haute Couture season looks buoyant for its next catwalk in January.

The next season of the highest expression of fashion on the planet is scheduled to take place from Monday, January 26 to Thursday, January 28.

Paris will welcome two new guest houses, Celia Kritharioti and Phan Huy, in the official calendar published Thursday by the Federation of Haute Couture and Fashion, which controls all catwalk seasons in Paris, the catwalk capital of the planet.

Phan Huy has already performed in Paris during the ready-to-wear season, but his couture debut will mark the first time a couturier from Vietnam has been featured on the official couture week calendar. Celia Kritharioti has also presented haute couture collections before in Paris, although again this is her first appearance in approved French programming.

However, the most anticipated collections will be the haute couture debuts of Matthieu Blazy at Chanel and Jonathan Anderson at Dior. Both have presented their first ready-to-wear shows for their respective houses, although this will be their first haute couture show for the two most famous fashion brands in France.

Attention will also focus on Giorgio Armani Privé, as the Milan house will present its first haute couture collection since the death of its founder in September.

Otherwise, the season is packed with famous brands, with Schiaparelli again opening the action, followed by Rahul Mishra, Giambattista Valli, Stéphane Rolland, Elie Saab, Valentino, Viktor & Rolf and Germanier, which ends the season on Thursday night.

As in recent seasons, the Patou house will host a ready-to-wear show on the afternoon of Sunday, January 25, a palette cleanser for the LVMH-owned brand as the Paris men's season ends, before the city moves into haute couture.