Les Enfants Terribles

The air in the dark, smoke-filled room was thick with anticipation. On a stuffy July afternoon during Couture Fashion Week, the first to feature physical showcases in more than a year, international buyers and editors—those who could travel, anyway—piled into the hallowed halls of Le Palais Gaultier in Paris. Designed in 1912 by Bernard-Gabriel Belesta and originally an assembly hall for the Proletariat Society, the concrete-vaulted space has since been a tape factory, a boxing hall, a nightclub and even the headquarters of the Socialist Party before a designer named