From his first steps in fashion, Simon Porte Jacquemus has woven his universe with threads of memory, landscape, and emotion. Today, the boy who dreamed of taking his creative vision to the Palace of Versailles has made that fantasy a reality. The firm that bears his surname – now firmly established as a fashion house – has presented its Spring/Summer 2026 collection in the gardens of the emblematic château, in a gesture that combines personal vindication and artistic consecration.

Under the evocative title “Le Paysan”, the proposal is presented as a contemporary ode to his roots: a love letter to the people who raised him, to the rural environment in southern France where he grew up, and to that silent beauty that dwells in everyday gestures. Jacquemus, always a master at turning the intimate into spectacle, translates this sensibility into sartorial language with a collection that is at once simple and exquisitely composed.

More than twenty men’s looks run down the catwalk like vivid images of the French countryside: garments with relaxed but refined silhouettes, wheat and tan tones that refer directly to the fields in summer, trousers with rolled-up bottoms, berets, wicker hats and bags that play with the shapes of vegetables gathered from the family’s imagination. The footwear, with delicate ankle laces, provides an almost bucolic wink, which, far from falling into caricature, underlines the poetic intention of the proposal.

But Jacquemus does not limit himself to nostalgia; he also reaffirms his place in the contemporary fashion conversation through tailoring that is surprisingly mature: blazers with structured shoulders and fitted waists that draw new proportions, poplin shirts of impeccable construction, and circular silhouettes that open the way to a new French classicism, reinterpreted with the lightness of someone who does not need to prove anything.

With “Le Paysan”, Simon Porte Jacquemus has not only signed one of his most personal and coherent collections to date. He also reaffirms – in case there were any doubts – that his brand has transcended the label of a phenomenon to definitively establish itself in the category of a maison. His Versailles fashion show is not a scenic whim: it is the symbolic closing of a circle, and the beginning of a new stage where fashion and memory merge into visual poetry.

Simon Porte Jacquemus has fulfilled his dream, and in the process, he continues to invite us to dream with him.

Have a look at the Spring/Summer 2026 collection below: