When shopping in Paris, you could follow the tourists to Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where off-the-catwalk designs are displayed like venerated artwork. Or, have an adventure and save euros hunting down “gently used” designer clothing at the city’s neighborhood dépôt-ventes, where Frenchwomen of exacting taste consign their castoffs. Unlike your average thrift…
Since the 1990s, the archives at the Petit Palais in Paris have gathered an unusual collection: thousands of drawings of jewelry designs, many of which have been shown only rarely, and never in France. The collection, which has more than 5,500 sketches and gouaches, a method of painting using opaque colors, includes creations by French…
THE FIRST TIME the 40-year-old French designers Agathe Labaye and Florian Sumi met, they were in high school in Dijon, forced to work together in art class on an amateurish painting of a dead fish that they still have in storage. They had crushes on each other, Labaye says on a dreary March morning while…
The models whooshed by in slinky pants, sailor tops, and finger-toed sneakers, but my seatmate noticed none of it. He was too busy blasting his way up the leaderboard in Fortnite. A triangular tube-top shooting flames could’ve gone by and this man would’ve continued hammering on his computer keyboard like Liberace at the piano. On…
