A young boy appears at the entrance of L’Orangerie and opens the door. A gesture so deeply symbolic, because that boy represents Simon and the child he once was. The dreamer, the observer, the grandson. Le Paysan is the dream realized. As he walks forward, you can almost imagine “Romantique” from En Cas De Malheur (1958) playing softly in the background.

Shown at the Palace of Versailles, the Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear collection was a return to the South of France, where family albums filled with harvest photos line the shelves and portraits showcase the way loved ones once dressed. Simon’s grandmother was there too, watching—both a witness to what he has built and a reflection of the world that shaped it.

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The collection featured structured jackets with sculpted sleeves, voluminous jupons in poplin, inner corsets, and aprons crafted from inverted tulle. Textures played a central role, with crisp poplin, sheer mousseline, and delicate tulle adding volume, depth, and lightness to the silhouettes. Through these sheer fabrics and softened shapes, the collection conveyed elegance and freedom. The kind that comes from living slowly, far from the demands of a big city. Every detail carried the imprint of care, the essence of something lived in and loved. The color palette drifted from milky white and soft blue to pale pink, black, and sun-washed yellow (the infamous Jacquemus yellow, might V add).

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This aesthetic extended to the men, who walked the endless Versailles tunnel looking as if they’d stepped out of a Marcel Pagnol novel, dressed in cropped jackets and wide-legged trousers, softened by wear and paired with linens threaded with faint herringbones and topstitched stripes.

Many of the looks evoke the kind of familiarity you might find in old films set in the South of France, yet they aren’t just imagined scenes. They reflect real lives and quiet afternoons spent under the sun, returning home to the scent of fresh bread, ripe fruit, or a simple tarte rustique cooling on the table. It’s a comforting collection, like childhood memories you never really lived, yet somehow remember and share.

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Simon has always known how to hold spectacle in one hand and sincerity in the other. But Le Paysan felt different, it was the culmination of a deeply personal cycle reinterpreted with a kind of tenderness that folds time inward. This sense of being let in was always present—not just into the show, but into a home, into memory, into loss and celebration and the belief that something born from soil, sun, and family could one day unfold beneath the vaulted arches of Versailles.

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