Imane Ayissi — Ozouandam Ollat

While Paris graded the Piccioli and Lantink debuts like a scoreboard, the only sub-Saharan African couturier on the official calendar opened the week with Ozouandam Ollat — 'haute couture' in Ewondo — raffia wings and saturated silk at the Aero-Club, a tribute to his late mother, former Miss Cameroon and flight attendant. Decades of Cameroonian craft inside couture's oldest gate, and the debut circus still swallowed the coverage. That gap is the entry.