458: PFW Days 4 + 5 / Showtime
Nat Geo, artichoke light, salmon sperm 2.0.
Magasin’s pop-up Fashion Week newsletter-within-a-newsletter, where we go on the ground to suss out hot shopping gossip from scenes of interest: Paris Fashion Week, Days 4+5.
Weather report
55ºF / 12º C — I heard you NYC freaks are getting 71ºF next week…hope it doesn’t break you.
Itinerary
Mar 5
10a Sourcewhere presents The Request Desk — one of my favorite stop-ins of the week. Founder Erika Wright assembled a greatest hits list of past and current-season pieces her fashion-sourcing platform gets tasked with finding clients most: a timely mix of price-commanding CBK-adjacent Prada and Calvin Klein, Margiela-era Hermés, J.W.Andersion’s Dior RTW, Charvet shirts (interest is surging due to the Chanel collab), The Row accessories, and Elsa Peretti objets. Housed in an apartment designed by Necchi Architecture (also responsible for Hotel Chateau d’Eau, where I stayed several visits back).
1p Rituel Libre at Sant Roch Vendome — a new sauna, “bathing club”-type experience that, IMO, needs some work. Design is…fine…but no-shoes policy and music that tries very hard to be “cool” instead of just being “enjoyable.”
3p Shopping at Preclothed — I tried on a devastating c. 2008 Hermés jacket that premeditated Blazy’s Chanel (as seen on Jacob Elordi). Around $3k, but the hardest thing I’ve walked away from all week.
5p Róhe cocktail — the brand’s Pankou jacket, coming soon in pony hair…a confluence of every 2026 trend, and yet it looks great.
6p Van Etten showroom cocktail at Pied-A-Terre’s newest property — feat. demos from JÉA, Liffner, Kiana Ghavidel (I will own this pair soon), Freja, Heaven Mayhem, etc.
7p Camilla and Marc x Pierre Augustin Rose cocktail
8:30p Dinner at Brutos
Mar 6
10a Completedworks x Milk Decoration breakfast at Matter + Shape
11a Blowout at David Mallett Salon
1p Issey Miyake show — heavenly creatures with the usual quirk and pragmatism, a kind of ‘90s Jil Sander vibe this season.
2p Shopping — Chanel, Saint Laurent. I waited a day too long to visit the new collections from the former—the new tweed bag I wanted, for €6,200, was already sold out everywhere for better or worse—but in that vacuum fell in love with a grosgrain pump from the latter, €1,700. Might be going back for the YSL pair!
3:30p Lanvin show — exceptional flapper dresses that I’d like to see on Jesse Buckley or some other Danielle Goldberg client who knows what’s what.
5p Laila Paris and printings.jp Maison Martin Margiela 0 0 10 Archive book release
5p Drinks at Le Verre Vole
7p Yohji Yamamoto show — a reminder of how much further there always is to grow in one’s own style.
8p Mother x Merci collaboration launch cocktail
some skips
Outfit rundown
AM
Lexx Finger Marche Leather Bomber (similar from Nour Hammour, $1,660) / Leset The Margo Tee, $78 / Vintage Helmut Lang Leather Pants (similar from Frame, $978 $1,398) / Tibi Washable Cashmere Easy V-Neck Sweater, $565 / Métier Private Eye Leather Tote, $5,250 / Martiniano Party Heel, $580
PM
Camilla and Marc Pebbled Leather Jacket, coming soon (similar from Róhe, $618 $1,235) / Sentô Button-Down Shirt, $220 / The Row Lilas Trousers, $870 $1,450 / Maryam Nassir Zadeh Carnation Scrunchie, $70 / Lucy Delius Diamond Chubby Hoops, $7,600
Next day
The Row Eugene Coat, $3,750 / Lanvin Wool Sweater, $796 $995 / Lanvin Draped Satin-Jacquard Midi Skirt, $2,090 / Lanvin Midnight Step Heeled Mules, $1,290 / Lanvin Medium Bucket Bag, $2,490 / Gucci Wire-Frame Glasses (on resale, $190) / Lucy Delius Diamond Chubby Hoops, $7,600
Shopping gossip
Spotted at David Mallett: a Louis Poulsen artichoke light, very Frenchly wired via an extra-long cord plugged into an adjacent wall.
The Sourcewhere apartment was stylized with vintage National Geographics, which instantly took me back to my childhood homes, in which my parents stacked every one of the hundreds of issues of the magazine they’d collected over years. Very well might be my soft spot, but I could see the tell-tale Nat Geo yellow spine becoming the new knowing archival print artifact. After all, either Erika or the Necchi team knew to place them there. My parents couldn’t give these things away during the last move, but now they’re going for $20 for 8…
My husband joined me at Preclothed, and the team did a bang job at figuring him out as a customer, bringing him a selection of Malo cashmere. It’s made across from Brunello Cucinelli’s cashmere facilities in Italy and is “better quality than Loro Piana or The Row,” pre the store. The hand was unbelievable, indeed softer than those and as soft as the Cristaseya sweater he had on. Their excellent-condition pieces were priced around €1,000, but they go for as little as under $100 on The RealReal.
Men in hats! We saw it during NYFW with the molded felt caps at Public School and on various attendees, and it’s happening here on the streets, too.
A piece of High Touch gossip: An editor I sat next to at Yohji had flown in directly from Korea, where he got “the new version of PDRN” (salmon sperm) injected into his skin. It’s called Elravie Re20 and is apparently uncomfortable enough of a process that they will anesthetize you (this is shocking to me) before fanning the skin booster over the area with a cannula. It only cost him around £300.
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Conflicted about the Malo shoutout (gatekeepy but happy) but it has been a long time coming. They’re on eBay and Vestiare etc for such great prices.