For the twenty-fifth entry in On Our Radar – Special Edition FW26 in Paris, Kiko Kostadinov delivers a collection that quietly questions one of fashion’s oldest dynamics: who is looking, and who is being looked at.
Presented during Paris Fashion Week, the Fall/Winter 2026 show reframed observation as both a practical act and a metaphor for womanhood. Look out of a window in a city like Paris, and amid the concrete you might notice a heron, a swan, or a flash of green from a parakeet. These fleeting encounters with nature became the starting point for a collection built around attention — the tension between observer and observed.
Clothing followed function. Utility trousers and jackets embedded with hidden pockets were designed to carry notebooks, pens, even binoculars — tools for documenting the world. Double-layered knits and transformative legging-jumpsuits continued Kostadinov’s modular wardrobe concept, pieces that shift and adapt as easily as the environments they inhabit.
Tailoring borrowed its backbone from menswear silhouettes, reinforcing the collection’s sense of quiet strength. Meanwhile, soft waistcoats in shimmering fabrics — punctuated with stitched pockets — introduced unexpected softness without sacrificing practicality.
The result is a wardrobe made not just to be seen, but to see with. In Kostadinov’s universe, the modern woman isn’t merely the subject of observation — she’s the one holding the lens.
