France’s Coronavirus Numbers Keep Climbing — So Why Did Dior Hold Its Paris Fashion Week Show Indoors?
In the past week, as the fashion capital of the world was preparing for its Paris Fashion Week, there were 12,115 new cases of the coronavirus reported in France, the majority of them focused in and around the capital. Compare that to the 5,989 cases reported in the state of New York over the same period of time — or to Italy’s seven-day average of 1,694 — and one starts to wonder just why the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode thinks it’s acceptable to host fashion events as if a global pandemic was not happening. There was no better place to see this flagrant disregard for public health in the name of fashion than at today’s Christian Dior spring ’21 runway show. Held inside a fully enclosed tent in the Jardin du Tuileries with an audience that appeared to be at least 200 or more, the show felt like a distinct déjà vu of the last Paris Fashion Week. Back in late February, amidst a growing outbreak that included plenty of fashion people migrating from Italy to France a