The numbers speak for themselves.
During the last Paris Fashion Week (winter 2022-2023), there were 14 women behind the parades for 27 men.
The under-representation of designers was the same in the Milan calendar (15 against 31), a little less among our London friends and completely reversed, at the new Danish meeting in Copenhagen (but whose issues have nothing to do with ours).
Isn't this disparity curious in 2022, when fashion prides itself on being at the forefront of societal advances?
Far be it from us to claim that women dress their peers better than male designers.
But we remember (admittedly, without having experienced it) the period 1920-1930 marked by strong female emancipation and the work of Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin, the Callot sisters, Madeleine Vionnet, Mme Grès.
Visionaries who have changed the wardrobe of their contemporaries and taken on the costume of business leaders managing houses counting…
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