PARIS, July 6 — One very select group of fashionistas were not crying into their cocktails when the Paris fashion shows were cancelled because of the coronavirus. The tiny group of super rich women who buy the ruinously expensive handmade creations that adorn the runways of Paris haute couture...
French high fashion designer Julien Fournie looks at himself in a mirror in his workshop in Paris June 18, 2020. — AFP pic
“I thought they would be upset,” the French courtier Julien Fournie told AFP as he prepared looks for his film for the French capital’s first virtual fashion week, which starts today.Haute couture’s made-to-measure creations — which are only shown in Paris — can cost the price of a luxury sports car.
“While you have to get into ready-to-wear clothes” — adapting your body to the norm — “in haute couture, the clothes are made to wrap you,” the designer said. Fournie’s film for his virtual Paris show tomorrow is more of a teaser than a classic run through the collection.“We are not showing too much,” Cauvin said, to avoid any unseemly competition that might sometimes arise after shows when “clients really set their heart on a particular look and want to put an option on it” before anyone else does.
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