During fashion month, the runways blur into a moving archive of silhouettes, soundtracks, fabrics, bodies and faces. Paris Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2026 was no exception — except that every few looks, a face would cut through the spectacle and pull you back in. 

Designers continue to treat casting as narrative, with some leaning into surprise appearances or new faces, and others returning to a trusted orbit of muses whose faces have become shorthand for their world. This season, the distinction mattered less than the feeling: Paris felt intentional about who was seen, and how. Certain models anchored collections simply by how they moved, looked and occupied space, making the clothes legible through them.

Below, see our favorite faces from the Fall-Winter 2026 Paris Fashion Week runways.