The most Instagrammed piece on the catwalk this week is a green Balenciaga anorak, while, in the front row, Kanye West is the new Catherine Deneuve. How did Paris get so hard-edged?
All you really need to know, to get your head around Paris fashion week, is this: the most lusted-after, Instagram-liked piece on the catwalk this week was an anorak. At Balenciaga, new designer Demna Gvasalia’s vision for the most ultra-chic, super-refined Paris label was distilled in an oversized anorak in a garish green-and-blue colour combination which was a long, long way from the pale greys of Avenue Montaigne or the matt black of the Boulevard Saint Germain. And the audience loved it.
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