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A show lasts fifteen minutes. The evening that follows is where Paris decides who is who. The dinners, galas and late nights of the Spring/Summer 2027 season.
PARIS FASHION WEEK · THE NIGHTS
A show lasts fifteen minutes. The evening that follows is where Paris decides who is who.
Fashion week in Paris runs in two shifts. The first happens by day, on the runways, in front of editors and buyers. The second begins when the last look leaves the stage and the houses trade the show space for the dinner table. That is where partnerships are sealed, ambassadors introduced and the weight of every name on a guest list measured with almost scientific precision. The Spring/Summer 2027 season had a little of everything: caviar on French fries, archive jewellery drawings in a museum, an industry gala in a palace by the Seine and a show that behaved like a party.
The week opened at the table. On 28 September, W editor-in-chief Sara Moonves and Bloomingdale’s chief executive Olivier Bron hosted dinner at Le Duc, the Left Bank seafood restaurant fashion has treated as a canteen for decades. Champagne on arrival, then French fries crowned with caviar, langoustine with wasabi and lobster in orange butter. Juergen Teller arrived with his wife and creative partner Dovile Drizyte Teller; Jennifer Lawrence, Precious Lee, Camille Charrière and Tish Weinstock were at the tables. Guests left with Diptyque candles and the magazine’s fall issue, and custom matchbooks waited outside for the inevitable cigarette break.
Across the river the same evening, Tiffany & Co. took over the fashion galleries of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to announce a four-year partnership with the museum. The aim is to conserve and digitise the archive of Jean Schlumberger, the jeweller behind some of the American house’s most coveted pieces: more than 5,000 original drawings and another 5,000 documents. A hundred of those drawings went on show beside the jewels they became, followed by an intimate dinner by chef Romain Meder. Anya Taylor-Joy, Amanda Seyfried, Greta Lee, Diane Kruger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Adria Arjona were among the guests.
I am only a pencil.
The line on the wall of Tiffany’s Schlumberger exhibition, Musée des Arts Décoratifs
On 29 September, Anthony Vaccarello did what Saint Laurent does best and turned the runway into the social event of the week. At the Trocadéro, with the Eiffel Tower lit across the river, the house marked his tenth year as creative director. The audience read like a party list.
If there is one party where fashion examines itself, it is this one. On Saturday 3 October, The Business of Fashion gathered the members of the BoF 500, its annual index of the people shaping the industry, at the Shangri-La Paris, the former residence of Prince Roland Bonaparte facing the Eiffel Tower. Paris and Nicky Hilton, Heidi Klum, Nara Smith and Iris Law were among the arrivals, in the mix of designers, executives, models and entertainers that only this gala produces.
Sunday began with an unusual request. Alessandro Michele asked each Valentino guest to bring a book to be donated to public libraries, and the reading room of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève filled with volumes held by Naomi Watts and Cynthia Erivo, among others. It was the only show of the week where the ticket was also a gift.
That night Miu Miu rewarded the people who had just walked its show, Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin among them, with dinner. Over recent seasons the house’s evenings have moved through addresses such as Gigi and Lapérouse, and they have become some of the hardest invitations of the calendar.
When the dinners end around midnight, the third shift begins. Houses, magazines and DJ collectives carry the party into the morning, and models who walked in the afternoon share the floor with designers, editors and whoever made it past the door. Silencio on Rue Montmartre, designed by David Lynch and named after the club in Mulholland Drive, remains the members’ club where fashion’s night tends to end. On the Left Bank, smaller rooms host the after-shows; on the final night, Louis Vuitton closed the season in the courtyard of the Louvre, beneath vehicles suspended over the runway.
On the last night, while the hovering vehicles still hung over the Louvre, the tables at Le Duc were already booked again. In Paris, fashion week never quite ends. It turns off the runway lights and waits for March, when a show will once more last fifteen minutes and the evening, again, will decide the rest.
Details and further reading: Paris Fashion Week Women’s Autumn/Winter 2027-2028 returns in March 2027. Official calendar at fhcm.paris. Tiffany’s Schlumberger archive project: madparis.fr. See also Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027: the third act.
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GABRIEL SILVEIRADO, FOR WAYFARER.
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