Window Wednesday

 

 Cruising into Fashion Week

 

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September 2026 Paris Fashion Week will be a 9-day event grand finale of the "Big Four" global fashion weeks featuring a packed lineup of 101 fashion houses.

 

Womenswear Spring/Summer 2027 ready-to-wear collections

 

Monday September 28 - Tuesday October 6, 2026

Fashion weak

 

 

Starting today until Tuesday October 4 fashionistas from all over the world will be all over the city.

Paris Fashion Week

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- Tomorrow: glimpses from the Christian Dior retrospective -

Out to dry

A small boutique tucked into a courtyard displays its wares despite the rain.

Fashion (fooding) week #2

A convivial evening was had by all at this casual Les Halles bistrot, overseen by Alain Ducasse, which I'd written up as part of a "Paris restaurant marathon" piece.
[also posted here Extreme Fooding: Champeaux]

Above: poulet en crapaudine with its silky purée en cocotte (a house specialty); plump fresh codfish atop white Tarbais beans; creamy coquillettes laced with smoky ham and black truffle

Below: after-dinner Cognac is siphoned then deposited into glasses
 

 

 

Champeaux

Forum des Halles La Canopée 75001

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Tomorrow
It's Greek to me

Fashion (fooding) week #1

   Looking back, I realized that this year's autumn Fashion Week might as well have been called "Fashion (fooding) week."

Since September I've been meaning to post some of the many dining and imbibing spots - among old (and new) friends - before, during, and just after Paris Fashion Week.

Above: Fouquet's, with its red awning dominating a corner on the Champs-Elysées, was a fitting, reliable, and très parisien point de rendez-vous

Inside: small plaques next to tables denote some of its star-studded habitués from past and present.

 

Outside: a shining walkway bears the names of recipients of French cinema's coveted César Award.

 

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Founded 1899 / listed a historical French monument 1990

Menu in collaboration with Chef Pierre Gagnaire

Brasserie Le Fouquet's
99 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 75008

  To Michael

 

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Tomorrow
Le Ventre de Paris: Ducasse revisited  

Fashion week end

 

 

 

Today ends Fashion Week.

Above: private parties and showroom reception hopping; off-the-radar designers in ephemeral spaces

Below: L'Oréal's spectacular celebrity runway on the Seine; hundreds of spectators watch from bridges and boats

Fall and fashion

No sooner is the September rentrée back in swing it's time for the new collections to hit the runways.

Above: this season watch for chic tailoring, high boots, bright colors, smaller bags and big hair

 

Paris Fashion Week September 25 - October 3, 2018

See-&-Be-Seen Dept
models, designers, fashionistas: where they go after the shows

September newsletter
Nouveautés 

 

Fashion art

Surprises can pop up anywhere during Fashion Week.
A model uses a Star Wars' helmet to pose inside the Musée d'Orsay.

Reposted by request: Danielle news / 2016 Fashion Week

Turning red

A bright red pouch bag by British designer J.W. Anderson in the window at Colette.

213 rue Saint-Honoré 75001

Model shoot

It's Fashion Week and model shoots are turning up in unexpected nooks, with Montmartre particularly busy.

 

Above: fake snow and pine trees set the scene for an ad for men's ski wear