Everything You Need to Know About Paris Couture Week: Alaia, Schiaparelli, Dior & More

In a novel twist on Maria Grazia Chiuri’s favorite slogan T-shirts, Dior’s fall ’19 coutureshow opened with a white toga posing the question “Are clothes modern?” As the toga hails from a good millennia or two BC, the collection’s ensuing 1940s-’50s vibe felt positively contemporary by comparison. Which was surely the point, no?

Footwear smartly riffed on the ancient vs. modern theme with crosses between gladiator sandals and fishnet tights. The final look involved a sandwich-board style replica of Dior’s storied 30 Avenue Montaigne façade (the original Paris location of the maison, and also this season’s show venue), which came teamed with what appeared to be a fishnet body stocking.

Midnight00 designer Ada Kokosar hosted a soirée in the top floor VIP space of Galeries Lafayette’s Champs-Élysées outpost on Monday night.

The department store’s creative director, Clara Cornet, told FN that she’d first come across Kokosar on Instagram: “The brand struck me because it felt like nothing I’d ever seen before, and for me that is so rare.”

She added, “When we first met, Ada told me about the night she decided to make her first shoe using a pink satin sleeve she wrapped around the base and then how she went into the kitchen and wrapped a bag around it. That was how she created the brand. And I thought, wow, if that’s not different then 

what is?”

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