Haute Couture

Olivier Rousteing, age 30, has 3.4 million followers on Instagram and cheekbones for days. He also just launched a collaboration with Nike and was instrumental in helping Balmain attract a powerful new owner: Valentino parent Mayhoola for Investments, which shelled out an estimated 500 million euros, or $556 million, for the Paris fashion house.

Wooyoungmi presents a fluid Spring menswear chic Collection at Paris Fashion week. 

Dior Homme's creative director Kris Van Assche will present the Dior Homme Summer 2017 collection

There were piles of gravel and pileups of not-always-summery garments at Sacai’s spring show held in an orangerie at the Jardins du Luxembourg. The dust the models kicked up was echoed in the dry, talcum texture of the fabrics and shades ranging from greige to peony pink.

Like all good nights spent sweat-drenched by strobe light, there was so much going on at this Kenzo show that recalling all of it afterwards, even as you stumbled euphoric out the door into the glare of morning sunshine, represented a challenge.

Given the shock of the Brexit vote that coincided with Day Three of the Paris men’s shows, it was hard not the think of roiling currencies watching Givenchy’s parade of military parkas in greenback prints that approximated camouflage. Shame on us because Riccardo Tisci had something more lofty in mind. “Spirituality, seeing with your third eye,” he said backstage. “Money sometimes makes us forget that.”