Promotion
At the Hôtel de Maisons on Paris’s Left Bank, Kobi Halperin presented his first collection on the city’s official fashion week calendar — a debut that felt more like a homecoming than an arrival. The designer, long based in New York, titled his Spring 2026 show Nouveau Départ, a nod to both the brand’s tenth anniversary and a moment of personal recalibration.
Halperin has always designed with an instinct for structure and sentiment — clothes that balance precision with emotion. In Paris, that sensibility matured. The collection, shown inside the 18th-century mansion’s pale, light-filled salons, traced an evolution rather than a rupture: embroidery refined to near abstraction, silhouettes softened but still controlled, a sense of craft elevated into something almost cinematic.
A Narrative
The choice of the Hôtel de Maisons was deliberate, and deeply symbolic. Its iconic blue door, slightly worn from time, became the show’s threshold — the passage from one chapter to the next. As guests entered, birds could be heard in the garden, the late afternoon light diffusing through the mansion’s glass panes.
Nouveau Départ explored the relationship between architecture and the body, between the spaces we inhabit and the garments that hold us. "We dress our bodies as we dress our homes," Halperin reflected. "Seeking comfort, protection, and expression." That tension between interiority and exposure gave the collection its weight.
Craft and Emotion
Halperin’s work has long been defined by an attention to craft — embroidery, lacework, and tailoring that give structure to sentiment. In Paris, that language became sharper. The ornate detailing of his earlier collections was pared back, replaced by cleaner silhouettes and a focus on proportion.
Soft chiffon shirts were anchored by tailored jackets with rounded shoulders; trousers carried subtle embellishment rather than overt decoration; metallic thread was used sparingly, catching light in motion rather than competing with it. The palette — ivory, sand, muted rose — underscored a sense of restraint.
Expanding the Universe
For the first time, Halperin extended his scope beyond clothing. Collaborations with Deepa Gurnani and Maison Ernest introduced jewelry and footwear designed to complement his ready-to-wear line. Gurnani’s crystal and beadwork translated Halperin’s focus on craftsmanship into accessories, while Ernest’s sculptural shoes grounded the looks with a sophisticated edge.
The move signaled an expansion of the brand’s ecosystem rather than a shift in direction. Each partnership reflected Halperin’s ongoing interest in precision and balance — refining, rather than redefining, the codes he has built over the past decade.
The Designer’s Perspective
Over the past decade, Kobi Halperin has established a distinct vocabulary — modern femininity shaped by heritage techniques and executed with precision. In Paris, that vocabulary evolved. The collection revealed a designer more focused on clarity than statement, more intent on refining his language than rewriting it.
Nouveau Départ suggested a quieter confidence: work rooted in discipline, guided by instinct, and freed from the urgency to prove. It marked not a break, but a consolidation — the moment when a designer stops defining his identity and begins to own it.
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