The Book of Complaints: Guests of the Paris Fashion Week about its shortcomings
Sonya Batovrina
Rita Zubatova
From the side of fashion week can look like a masquerade: Thousands of beautifully dressed people rush through the streets with invitations in their hands to look at the same beautifully dressed models on the catwalk. In fact, 10 working days at Paris Fashion Week can ruffle even the most persistent person. The editors of Wonderzine asked stylists, designers, photographers and buyers running around the show in the heat and rain from one end of the city to the other about what really annoyed them during Fashion Week.
Alexandra Richards
model and dj
"The hellish delays of the show. We were just on the Barbara Bui backstage, it's funny that although the show was supposed to start at 4:00 pm, at 4:20 pm the models just started coming, and at 4:40 pm I heard something like„ Well, it's time to start. "Because of this, we now have to literally fly to the next show, so as not to be late."
Eddie Newton
street style photographer blog Mr.Newton
“Things that should be better organized will never change. For example, when we’re shooting here all day, we’d have to be offered water, a snack and so on. We take pictures in places like this (Palais Royal. - Ed.) there are no stores around, we literally float in the sun. No, I don’t think that street-style photographers should be regulated, we understand that people care more about the brand and the show, but it would be nice if we just remembered us " .
Karina Utegenova fashion editor Harper's Bazaar
"I hope that it’s not very snobbish, but it would be great if there were fewer people at shows and around who have a very indirect relationship to fashion."
Linda thol Buyer and blogger lindatol.com
"For example, yesterday I came to the Carven show, the show place was wildly small, and they invited a lot of guests. As a result, we, the buyers, were simply not allowed, and we came just like that. It’s sad that such problems happen only in Paris , in any other place before the show, the guards would let you go this way and that. "
Venus x DJ
“People you meet in France are often quite biased towards you as a tourist: they look at you from head to toe, they are rude, they don’t pay attention. Paris Fashion Week is amazing, but here’s a paradox: this is the place where you come, you go to the store and you want to buy everything (well, that is true, fashion is the best here), but then you better take the packages and run away as soon as possible. "
Lydia Bardina World Fashion TV
"Paris traffic jams. It would be much better if everything (or almost everything) happened as in New York or Moscow - in one place. Then people would not rush from one corner of Paris to another, trying to catch the next show in 20 minutes" .
Thomas Vermeer dutch editor elle
"The only thing that annoys me is all these invitations. Perhaps it would be simpler and greener if you could just show RSVP from your phone. Or at least save on envelopes - why are they needed?"
Charlotte smith Electronic Media Strategy Specialist
"Among the models there are very few Asian, Latino and black girls. I want more ethnic diversity. God forbid, a couple of girls stand out from the rest. There are conceptual shows in which, for example, some black models participate, but do you think he praises them or mocks them? "
Marta Marquez and Paulo Almeida designers Marques' Almeida
"We are constantly in our showroom with other British designers, so they are somewhat isolated from everything that happens outside of it. During Fashion Week, you have to be constantly alert, work every day and every minute. we started to deal with orders, then we went here. When you think that everything is over, everything is just beginning. But this is rather a working moment, and not a complaint about Fashion Week. "