Paris Fashion Week

The Faith Connexion mother ship on Rue Tronchet is hot, loud, and busy. Entering it, this reviewer felt stupidly out of touch: What really was Faith Connexion, anyway? Hearsay said it was the follow-up project of Christophe Decarnin—the man who warmed the bed for Rousteing at Balmain then exited it—and his team.

Fall 2016 marks Lucas Ossendrijver’s 10th year designing for Lanvin. It’s an anniversary that has been eclipsed, it’s fair to say, by departures, both rumored and actual.

Militaria hackneyed? Not at Acne. After spotting pieces of Swedish army surplus on the streets, Jonny Johansson looked back to the nine months he spent in military service as a youth.

Hermès occupies a very specific arena of luxury: a place plenty of other brands ache to occupy.

Fashion Designer Olivier Rousteing, Balmain, presented Fall/Winter 2016 Men's Collection at Paris Fashion Show.

Looking back at August Sander’s photos from pre-Nazi Germany—Instagrams from eternity—is poignant and urgent: His subjects appear as right-here, right-now human as you or I, just stranded in a different, turbulent age. Yet only generations divide us. And times change fast. Christophe Lemaire has already cited Sander this season, as have others: Today Mihara Yasuhiro stepped deeply into the territory of past lives not so different from ours and dug up a gorgeous but kind of sad collection of clothing from it.