A historically hot Paris Fashion Week photographed with a kid's camera - BERITAJA

I took a kid’s camera to Paris Fashion Week, because was it ever really that serious? Yes and no. This men’s play happened during 1 of the hottest weeks successful France’s recorded history, which inspired that circumstantial marque of corporate hysteria brought connected by surviving done yet different unprecedented infinitesimal together — taking complete our brains and ruining our plans to deterioration boots — and a grander reflection connected what we were doing location and why. The throngs of teenagers doing backmost flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer successful the thoroughfare group the temper for the week. If the world is ending, you mightiness arsenic good aquatics successful soiled h2o and person nosy doing it, no?

As acold arsenic the shows went, location was the coastal stoner power of Tokyo-based Auralee — brightly colored leathers and furry flip-flops — that reminded maine of the low-key elegance of hanging retired successful Southern California. At the Rick Owens show, Rick-heads made minimal weather-restrictive tweaks to their accustomed uniforms — platforms, leather, ground-grazing garments — making you admit the beauty successful that level of ascetic dedication. Louis Vuitton built a literal formation arsenic its runway, complete pinch soil and a elephantine activity that felt for illustration a mirage: Is this a heat-induced mirage aliases yet different buzzed-about group creation nether men’s imaginative head Pharrell Williams? At the Dries Van Noten show, location was an ice-cold brew fridge and popsicles, a chic and inspired item only rivaled by a postulation that was a activity of caller aerial during a week wherever I Googled the symptoms of power changeable much than once. The Willy Chavarria show was air-conditioned, pumped pinch Xinú perfume and felt expensive. Sven Marquardt, a Berlin photographer and Berghain’s about celebrated bouncer, was sitting successful beforehand of me, which I took arsenic an incredibly bully omen. The painted bluish feet and Oakley collab sunglasses astatine the Kiko Kostadinov show felt auspicious arsenic well.

There were conversations floating about about really apocalyptic it felt sitting astatine a manner show successful complete 100-degree Fahrenheit weather, our backs soaked, our minds dizzied, erstwhile the manufacture is responsible for thing for illustration 10% of world greenhouse state emissions. The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness successful the aerial that week.

At the Comme des Garçons show, called “If the War Were to End..,” models danced and ran and skipped retired onto the runway for the finale, soundtracked by the joyous sound of children singing “You’re So Good to Me” by the Langley Schools Music Project. In that moment, we were happy, we were clapping, we mightiness person moreover been hopeful. Humans person the capacity to clasp a batch — a instrumentality successful 1 manus while attempting not to wholly melt successful the beforehand row, and a imagination that location mightiness still beryllium a early wherever we get to deterioration those leopard-print Dries shoes we fell successful emotion pinch connected the runway.

A look from the Auralee show.

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The moments earlier the Comme des Garçons show.

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Comme des Garçons show attendees.

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Comme des Garçons, head-to-toe.

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The Comme des Garçons show.

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The Dries Van Noten show.

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A chic and inspired item astatine the Dries Van Noten show: ice-cold beer.

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The ERL presentation.

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Scenes from the ERL presentation.

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The Issey Miyake show.

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The Kiko Kostadinov show.

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Scenes from Paris.

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Tapping successful from Louis Vuitton beach.

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Quavo astatine the Louis Vuitton show.

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Scenes from aft the Louis Vuitton show.

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Scenes from the Louis Vuitton show.

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Scenes from the Nahmias x Puma meal astatine Gigi Paris.

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Scenes from the On X Online Ceramics rave.

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On astatine PFW.

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The Rick Owens show.

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Scenes from Rick Owens.

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At Silencio to spot Venezuelan DJ and shaper Safety Trance.

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The Willy Chavarria show.

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Scenes from Willy Chavarria.

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The throngs of teenagers doing backmost flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing shot successful the thoroughfare group the temper for the week.

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