Paris Fashion Week Goes Digital In Age Of Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has instilled extra unpredictability into the already fickle Paris Fashion Week. After first canceling the July shows for menswear and Haute Couture, the French fashion federation organized an unprecedented schedule of digital-only events instead. Top houses such as Chanel, Dior and Hermes showed their new Fall-Winter 2020/2021 couture collections or their Spring-Summer 2021 menswear collections online last week — but with no celebrity guests, no Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and none of the usual frenzied media circus. No one from the public was allowed to see the clothes in person at all, in fact, during this on-screen-only version of fashion week. The federation decided this spring that because of social distancing guidelines, Paris Fashion Week — famed for its 25-centimeter (9-inches)-a-bottom seating allowances — would skip in-person shows for a season, and return to normal, or, at least a new normal, in September, barring a second wave. Read more at Boston Herald.