PARIS - The hectic fashion season reaches its last stop in Paris on Monday, with the biggest intrigue being whether beloved brand Balmain can recover from the theft of 50 outfits last week.
The spring-summer 2024 womenswear collections in Paris come with buyers, bloggers and influencers still digesting the hundreds of new trends put forward in London, New York and Milan through September. "Consumers are sobering up from the post-pandemic euphoria and luxury spending growth will undoubtedly moderate," the head of luxury goods research at Bernstein, Luca Solca, wrote for online magazine Business of Fashion.
The closest precedent is perhaps when Marc Jacobs had an entire collection stolen on a train from Paris to London, but he had already held his show. Another royal connection, Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri presents on Tuesday just after a high-profile commission designing the flowing navy-blue dress for Queen Camilla during her state dinner at Versailles on Wednesday.