As weary fashionistas made it to the final sprint of Paris Fashion Week’s 96 physical and digital spring-summer shows, Saturday’s runways provided the spark to keep the energy going despite the rain and gray skies.

PARIS – A hybrid Paris Fashion Week continued Wednesday featuring a stand out live runway show from socially-distanced Kenzo, but no sign of any A-list celebrities. Guests smiled as they breathed in the fresh air of the inner city garden amid the sounds of the fountain. The designer used the Kenzo touchstone of the safari or the trek, and reinterpreted the sand dust visor as a netted beekeeper’s mask. BALMAIN PLAYS A TRICKBy thinking outside the box, Balmain tackled the question of whether the reduced, virus-era fashion week would fail to attract star power to Paris. THE ECO-INVITEIt took perhaps a deadly global pandemic for the fashion industry to change its wasteful and un-ecological system of invitations.