“Freedom!” declared Virginie Viard during a fitting in Chanel’s rue Cambon atelier on the eve of her breezy show. Viard explained that she was talking about the sort of wind-in-the-hair freedom that a ...

The eternal and international attraction of being a French girl with “the knack” has been a thread that has run through some of the major Parisian houses and their major “experiential” shows this ...