13 signs that it’s Paris Fashion Week
Wait, is it Fashion Week again? Between several haute couture, menswear, ready-to-wear and off-season shows, it’s hard to keep track. Here are thirteen unmistakable signs that it is indeed Paris Fashion Week, also known as PFW.
- You have to start queuing the night before to get into Café de Flore.
- Uber prices have tripled – for the lucky few who manage to get one at all.
- The area around the Grand Palais has become a danger zone.
- The Rue Vieille-du-Temple is busier than the Champs-Élysées.
- You can no longer get a seat on your neighborhood terrace because it has been taken over by an army of The Row’s Fisherman Sandals and head-to-toe Aimé Leon Dore.
- Everyone talks about Demna and Maria Grazia as if they knew them personally.
- Half the city looks like it’s on its way to a bad-taste party.
- The bouncers at your average nightclub are stricter than airport security.
- You run into Kanye.
- That new restaurant you wanted to try has been privatized for two weeks.
- You’re more likely to hear New York-tinged English than French.
- Sunglasses stay on despite the rain.
- The whole town smells of Le Labo.
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