335: PFW Days 6 + 7 / Hair clip heaven
Plus Turkish beads, Italian tongues, and wearing English wool.
Introducing Magasin’s pop-up Fashion Week newsletter-within-a-newsletter, where we’ll be covering shoppable observations from scenes of interest daily: Paris Fashion Week, Days 6 + 7.
Weather report
47ºF / 8º C — ok so it’s officially spring here. All that’s left is to dread the return to New York.
Itinerary
Mar 8
10a Tibi showoom
11a Maccapani breakfast
12p Simone Rocha re-see
1:30p Métier showroom
3p Lanvin re-see
5:30p Paloma Wool show
6p Ragbag cocktail
Mar 9
11a Margaret Howell breakfast — I’ve been noodling all week on where Parisians get their perfect trousers, but now I’m inclined to think maybe it’s the Brits who’ve gotten it most right
1p Calvin Klein re-see
3p Meryll Rogge show
7:30p Bode Rec. & Nike cocktail
8p La Double J x Mother with Net-A-Porter cocktail at La Fontaine Gaillon — jeans collab coming this Thursday
8p LỰU ĐẠN karaoke game night
some skips :( due to technical difficulties
The look
Cawley Leather Flying Jacket, $1,175 / Redone Cashmere Baby Crew Pullover, $450 / Cawley British Wool Georgia Trouser, $275 / Martiniano Party Heels, $454 / Fane Bra Bag, $610
Magasin intel
Two out of three times I’ve seen my editor friend
this week, she’s been wearing full Sera Studios, a Turkish-French operation making glass bead-embellished cotton poplins and lace-trim barrettes. Hazy-femme-yet-reality-checked is the approach. I’m hoping to make an appointment for this afternoon.Been thinking about English wool since picking up my Cawley order from the brand’s showroom this week. In Ireland, I spoke to the folks at Cushendale Mill, who explained the huge shift in wool production to outside the country when consumer tastes began demanding softer, more cashmere-like qualities over weather-resistance alone. Cawley, in the UK, has solved for that by sourcing its yarn from Merino sheep native to and still raised in the north of the country. So, best of both worlds.
I popped by the Loro Piana on Saint-Honoré and discovered the Rebecca flats in silk-cotton jacquard. A very dangerous run in. By the end of today, I’ll have to decide if I’m getting these or the Lemaire Shoulder Gear bag or some mysterious third thing to coax me in.
At the Paloma Wool show, a few front-row reprieves. I spotted Jacquemus’ Le Turismo bag and double-height heels alongside two pairs of the Ganni laced flats that’d laced the brand’s own front row just days earlier. That these three brands are coalescing makes sense to me, given that they are now dominating the middle-priced vacuum and addressing the 25-35 group (by aging with their original base, say, or fine-tuning pricing strategies). The trifecta satisfyingly populates a wardrobe with daywear, event, and ‘It’ categories covered.
Carrying over the hair accessory convo, I think I stumbled upon a mecca for French-made acetate clips, pins, combs, brushes, etc etc. Maison Caillau is a hairdresser-turned-”hair jewelry” shop that’s been around since 1900. Worth a visit in person, but if you can justify it with a bulk order, shipping to the States is $60.
The dangling-tongue shoes from the Hodakova runway were in collaboration with Sergio Rossi, an Italian shoe brand that gets plenty of deserving love out here, but mistranslates as a “lady” brand in the US. I’m inclined to say the same about Roger Vivier, which is especially coming into its stride in the era of Manolo worship and Louboutin apologism.
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