Paris Fashion Week: 107 Brands Showcasing Spring-Summer 2023

PARIS — Paris is the center of the world’s globalized luxury industry this week with Tuesday marking the first major day of ready-to-wear shows at Paris Fashion Week with Saint Laurent and Dior. These Parisian powerhouses are among the 107 brands showcasing spring-summer 2023 collections.

Here are some highlights:

• BOTTER: Sartorial met the aquatic on Tuesday at Botter’s co-ed show of crisp lapels, boxy jackets, and poetical cutaways. They graced brightly colored suits.

Statement stomping sneakers, in vivid colors, provided contrasts with trendy suit-ware sometimes sporting marbled lines to evoke sea creature tentacle.

• VAQUERA BRINGS STARS AND STRIPES TO PARIS: It is a flash of American funk graced Paris for Monday’s installment of fashion week — a day reserved for up-and-comers. Vaquera came to prominence five years ago in New York with a U.S. flag gown with a massive train, moved this season across the pond.

Patric DiCaprio and Bryn Taubensee mixed their styles with looks that moved in a commercial direction for the spring-summer season. Distressed denim, the punk exuberance and corsetry of Vivienne Westwood’s heyday, and lashings of the Americana references — like a loose sheeny biker jacket —  defined the often-saleable 31-look display.

• LANCOME’S LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL: First major party of the season celebrated one of Paris’ most iconic perfume and cosmetic brands: Lancome. A stone staircase dappled in colored light led VIP guests including model Noemie Lenoir into the palatial Petit Palais venue by the banks of the Seine River Monday night.