Just ahead of the Elie Saab spring 2025 couture show, the sound of chirping birds filled the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, located on the Left Bank of the Seine. Inside the building, which houses the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world,

PARIS (AP) — The sounds of spring, with babbling brooks and birdsong, set a serene yet surreal tone Wednesday as Elie Saab unveiled his latest couture collection inside the soaring Palais de Tokyo in Paris. It was punctuated only by whoops and clicking camera shutters as Eva Longoria swept in.

A woman can’t live by eveningwear alone, so Saab continued to lean into day dressing, for example neatly channeling seasonal cues of tweediness on a jacket in openwork wool shot through with silver on a tulle base,