{"id":44132,"date":"2026-07-01T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/44132\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:46:18","slug":"paris-mens-fashion-week-seen-in-heat-vision-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/44132\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Men\u2019s Fashion Week, Seen in Heat-Vision Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took a kid\u2019s camera to Paris Fashion Week<\/a>, because was it ever really that serious? Yes and no. This men\u2019s season happened during one of the hottest weeks in France\u2019s recorded history, which inspired that specific brand of collective hysteria brought on by living through yet another unprecedented moment together \u2014 taking over our brains and ruining our plans to wear boots \u2014 and a grander reflection on what we were doing there and why. The throngs of teenagers doing back flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer<\/a> in the street set the mood for the week. If the world is ending, you might as well swim in dirty water and have fun doing it, no?<\/p>\n

As far as the shows went, there was the coastal stoner energy of Tokyo-based Auralee \u2014 brightly colored leathers and furry flip-flops \u2014 that reminded me of the low-key elegance of hanging out in Southern California. At the Rick Owens<\/a> show, Rick-heads made minimal weather-restrictive tweaks to their usual uniforms \u2014 platforms, leather, ground-grazing garments \u2014 making you appreciate the beauty in that level of ascetic dedication. Louis Vuitton<\/a> built a literal beach as its runway, complete with sand and a giant wave that felt like a mirage: Is this a heat-induced hallucination or yet another buzzed-about set design under men\u2019s creative director Pharrell Williams? At the Dries Van Noten show, there was an ice-cold beer fridge and popsicles, a chic and inspired detail only rivaled by a collection that was a breath of fresh air during a week where I Googled the symptoms of heat stroke more than once. The Willy Chavarria<\/a> show was air-conditioned, pumped with Xin\u00fa perfume and felt expensive. Sven Marquardt<\/a>, a Berlin photographer and Berghain\u2019s most famous bouncer, was sitting in front of me, which I took as an incredibly good omen. The painted blue feet and Oakley collab sunglasses at the Kiko Kostadinov show felt auspicious as well.<\/p>\n

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A look from the Auralee show.<\/p>\n

There were conversations floating around about how apocalyptic it felt sitting at a fashion show in over 100-degree Fahrenheit weather, our backs soaked, our minds dizzied, when the industry is responsible for something like 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>. The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.<\/p>\n

At the Comme des Gar\u00e7ons show, called \u201cIf the War Were to End..,\u201d models danced and ran and skipped out onto the runway for the finale, soundtracked by the joyous sound of children singing \u201cYou\u2019re So Good to Me\u201d by the Langley Schools Music Project. In that moment, we were happy, we were clapping, we might have even been hopeful. Humans have the capacity to hold a lot \u2014 a fan in one hand while attempting not to completely melt in the front row, and a fantasy that there might still be a future where we get to wear those leopard-print Dries shoes we fell in love with on the runway.<\/p>\n

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The moments before the Comme des Gar\u00e7ons show.<\/p>\n

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Comme des Gar\u00e7ons show attendees.<\/p>\n

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Comme des Gar\u00e7ons, head-to-toe.<\/p>\n

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The Comme des Gar\u00e7ons show.<\/p>\n

\"Models <\/p>\n

The Dries Van Noten show.<\/p>\n

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A chic and inspired detail at the Dries Van Noten show: ice-cold beer.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from the ERL presentation.<\/p>\n

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The Kiko Kostadinov show.<\/p>\n

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Tapping in from Louis Vuitton beach.<\/p>\n

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Quavo at the Louis Vuitton show.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from after the Louis Vuitton show.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from the Louis Vuitton show.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from the Nahmias x Puma dinner at Gigi Paris.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from the On X Online Ceramics rave.<\/p>\n

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At Silencio to see Venezuelan DJ and producer Safety Trance.<\/p>\n

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The Willy Chavarria show.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from Willy Chavarria.<\/p>\n

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The throngs of teenagers doing back flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer in the street set the mood for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I took a kid\u2019s camera to Paris Fashion Week, because was it ever really that serious? Yes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29906,20526,8331,29904,2624,29908,29903,27628,20236,8683,29907,30,18093,12230,718,29905],"class_list":["post-44132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-ascetic-dedication","tag-camera","tag-fashion-week","tag-fresh-air","tag-front","tag-ground-grazing-garment","tag-hot-week","tag-kid","tag-leather","tag-man","tag-minimal-weather-restrictive-tweak","tag-paris","tag-platform","tag-runway","tag-show","tag-unprecedented-moment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}