Marine Serre Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear

Mona Lisa, meet Marine Serre. As Paris fashion week gets underway, the designer beloved for her crescent moon motif and her dexterity with upcycled materials has opted out of a runway show while revealing an exciting collaboration with none other than the Louvre. From an initial conversation with the museum around a year ago, she realized five outstanding creations that further attest to her imagination and resourcefulness. A black gown was fully covered with nearly 500 small brush heads (an unused supply of makeup brushes), resulting in an uncanny surface like hairy fish scales. Serre designed a bustier minidress of smashed-up paint tubes that entailed 240 hours of work, and another dress strung together from the backs of watch faces as a kind of chainmail. A “Flemish Painter’s Dress” put a modern spin on a historical silhouette by splicing a black scuba-style top with a pouf skirt made from painter’s shirts. Look closely at her La Joconde dress and you will see it is a giant molded puzzle; each piece was moistened and embroidered with color-corresponding thread so that, 420 hours later, it became a wearable silhouette. And yes, the pieces dovetail perfectly with the Met Gala theme, “Fashion is Art.”