NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE IS, BY NOW, USED TO GOING LAST. After all, for the past five years, his collection has served as the grand finale of “Fashion Week,” an epic journey which really consists of a multi-city tour spanning New York, London, Milan, and Paris, and clocks in at a little over a month’s worth of runways, presentations, “re-sees,” and appointments. The trouble with going last, of course, is that the attendees—many of whom by now have witnessed 150 or more shows—are travel-weary, and think they’ve surely seen it all.
That was the case in October, until they were ushered past the famous glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum and into an expansive courtyard. There, they entered a large box made of pine, and promptly found their seats. The best way…
