Elie Saab dissolves the boundary between the real and the fantasty at Haute Couture Week

Elie Saab’s Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026-2027 collection unfolded at Paris Haute Couture Week as an invitation into The Ball of Untamed Dreams, a realm built on enigmatic glamour where the codes of couture blurred deliberately between what is real and what belongs to fantasy. The house’s signature vocabulary, that instinct for opulence rendered with precision rather than excess, found itself pulled into something closer to reverie this season, gowns that seemed to exist somewhere between the ballroom and the imagination, structured enough to hold their form yet loose enough to feel like they might dissolve at the stroke of midnight.