Inside AnOther Journal and Y-3’s Celebrations Throughout Paris Trend Week

Not all events at style week are created equal, and that was actually the case on Saturday night time (March 4) within the third arrondissement of Paris. 

After a celebration of the brand new Spring/Summer season 2023 situation in Milan, AnOther Journal landed within the French style capital to put on a second fabulous celebration. This time round, the occasion was in honour of a second cowl story styled by Robbie Spencer, which was shot by legendary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama and incorporates a sequence of progressive seems by Y-3 Atelier – an ongoing collaboration between Adidas and anti-fashion pioneer Yohji Yamamoto.

The night time was damaged into two halves, with individuals first piling into an intimate exhibition house on Paris’s Rue de Sévigné. Additionally hosted in collaboration with SSENSE and the Daido Moriyama Picture Basis, friends got here face-to-face with monumental floor-to-ceiling prints from the shoot, as curated by Dazed member of the family, artwork director Jamie Reid, in addition to a bespoke set up that includes the brand new Y-3 Atelier assortment, with the shut proximity of the items permitting followers to grasp the design and craftsmanship that goes into every of the pioneering model’s items.

After a busy day spent dashing concerning the metropolis between reveals, inevitably individuals had been going to be hungry. As a treatment to this, Narukiyo Izakaya was flown in from Japan. The founding father of cult restaurant Narukiyo introduced his imaginative dishes out of Shibuya and into the thrum of the Paris night for one night time solely, whereas additionally curating a particular guitar efficiency to entertain friends, who included Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy, Lila Moss, A Sai Ta, Chet Lo, Ancuta Sarca, Victor Kunda, Paul Hameline, and extra.

Because the night time wore on, section two of the night got here into play. Only a few minutes down the street, on the atmospheric Maison Sota, friends of Adidas and AnOther assembled amongst Castor Fleuriste’s floral installations for an intimate dinner. To a soundtrack combined by Parisian DJ Broodoo Ramses, AnOther Journal pals, household, and collaborators – together with Rick and Michele, Serhat and Benjamin, Lou Doillon, Carlijn Jacobs, Imruh Asha, Emma Wyman, Nell Kalonji, and canopy star of our A/W23 situation Shygirl – joined Jefferson Hack, Susannah Frankel, Katie Shillingford, and Alexander Fury for a three-course meal courtesy of chef Sota Atsumi. 

Appetisers together with oyster and beef tartare, kale chips, sea urchin with brioche, and toast and sardines, earlier than friends took their seats and acquired caught into the primary occasion. The starter took the type of a morel mushroom millecrèpe with parmesan cheese and carmelised onions, with the primary course salt-baked guinea fowl filled with Jerusalem artichoke and roasted yeast sauce or sea bass with beurre blanc. Rounding issues off was a light-as-air seasonal fruit pavlova. Between programs, friends Julia Fox and stylist Briana Andalore snapped selfies at their desk, and Richie Shazam, Harley Weir, and Louie Banks moved between tables to speak with pals previous and new.

With friends properly fed (and, in some circumstances, fairly properly lubricated) the night time got here to an in depth. Fortunate attendees had been gifted with stunning prints by Daido Moriyama, in addition to a bespoke, restricted version wrought iron candlestick by London-based designer Jermaine Gallacher – the proper souvenir to commemorate a really particular Paris night.