Paris is always Paris, but during Couture Week she wears her Sunday dress. Even in January, with temperatures dipping below zero under skies the color of sleet, the City of Light glows a little brighter and quickens her pace with the arrival of the fashion elite.
Editors and taste-makers, photographers and artists, bloggers and influencers, join stars (and their stylists) converging on the city. Hotels, restaurants, and bars fill to capacity; gossip permeates the air like jasmine; reputations are made and dashed. The carnival has come to town.
