Amy Verner

Venice is also where the dream of Golden Goose began in 2000. And ever since—but more so recently—the brand famous for Made-in-Italy sneakers that boast a stylistic, hand-crafted contrast of pre-distressed and flashy surface treatments has made dreaming its raison d’être.

How closely were you following fashion in 1997? It’s somewhat of a trick question. You may not have been born, or maybe you were too young to know Galliano from Ghesquière.

It is rare to find a restaurant in Paris that always stays open... Le Castiglione, as we knew it, was dependably, blessedly, obstinately open… until it closed definitively on Saturday night.

Scott Ramón Seguro Mescudi, otherwise known as the rapper Kid Cudi, and occasionally known as Mr. Rager, is in a Paris showroom facing seven mannequins decked out in looks from his clothing line, Members of the Rage.

October in Paris marks a shift in focus from fashion to art. This is when the city’s major institutions unveil their heavyweight exhibitions, while independent galleries often present their rising stars.

On the second floor of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, visitors arrive at an atypical display: Two large, square nature studies in dusky light by Claude Monet, removed from their frames, hang from a vertical island with a large gap between them. Beyond is a view to the gallery’s far wall, where a quadriptych—a four-paneled painting—by Joan Mitchell ripples and radiates in similar tones of deep blue, green, and lavender.
In Monet’s paintings, the trees and water lilies appear on the bank...

“Shocking! The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli” opens with hundreds of the couturière’s detailed fashion drawings printed like wallpaper, plus several originals—including a lithe figure wearing the famous lobster dress—mounted in glass cases.

Anyone in Paris for Men’s Fashion Week can confirm that the narrow sidewalks and grand boulevards are more crowded than ever. While expectations of a retail experience vary, stepping into a smaller, almost secret space that gives off ease and intimacy somehow see...

Within the Musée Picasso Paris, Diana Widmaier-Picasso is immersed in the incomparable legacy of her grandfather, who died in 1973 at the age of 91—the year before she was born.

Yves Saint Laurent spent his entire career paying tribute to artists: Now, six museums across Paris are paying tribute to him through a sprawling exhibition that showcases his art connoisseurship, creative genius, and imaginative savoir-faire.

The mythic Parisienne has been idolized, exploited, debunked, deconstructed, and revived with such fervor and frequency that it’s no wonder Vanessa Seward has turned to a different archetype for her first book.

Two weeks separate the final day of Paris Fashion Week from the first day of Fiac, the International Contemporary Art Fair, where some 170 galleries set up shop under the same roof.

Last Thursday night, when Coperni earned the distinction of being the only brand to host an audience during Paris Fashion Week, I realized that the last time I had been inside the Accor Arena was for the Off-White show a year ago.

If Paris Fashion Week in digital form has remained saturated with propositions and visions of the clothes we will be seeing—and perhaps wearing—in a few months, it’s only natural to be feeling a certain wistfulness for the experience as it used to be not so long ago. La nostalgie, as the French say.