Paris Fashion Week's Most Important Model Wasn't Human

Noetix's N2 robot walks the catwalk at the UNESCO venue in Paris on Oct. 8, 2025. Noetix's N2 robot walks the catwalk at the UNESCO venue in Paris on Oct. 8, 2025. Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to a gimmick. There was Coperni spraying a dress onto a model in 2022, followed by Schiaparelli's faux animal heads a year later, and then Robert Wun's blood-splattered " horror couture " last year. This week's event in the City of Light hewed to form as Chinese humanoid robot N2, created by Beijing-based Noetix Robotics, strutted awkwardly down a catwalk attired in waistcoat and pearls in the first outing of its kind outside of China.