Paris Fashion Week: Pharrell, Daniel Craig, Cardi B, And Pat Cleveland

Dashing, surprising and maybe even approaching a quality that we could define as “cute,” couples abound during any Paris fashion week. They tell a story as rendered by the sharper chroniclers of the street, among them the photographers in this portfolio, Jacopo Raule, Stephane Cardinale, Peter White and Arnold Jarocki. The photographers’ rule is, fashion show plus-ones are famously all over the map, so, chase that.

Yes, significant others occur, as pictured above out in front of the Loewe womenswear show with actress Rachel Weisz’s well-known plus-one, husband Daniel Craig, who has been and is here aggressively exercising his right as a recently retired Bond inhabitant to get out of the tight-fitting suits and into something more energetically loose.

We’re not sure the decibel levels in Craig’s sweater are working for him at the moment, but his bomber and the parachutist-manque pants fitted around the ankles of his boots, as well as the terrain-enhancing yellow aviators to combat the blending effects of the somewhat gray day, do make it seem as if he just landed his vintage Piper Cub on a grass strip tucked in behind the venue, and after he tied it down and they stuffed the chocks around the wheels, they strolled on over to catch the show. Car? What car? For her part, Weisz looks every bit as ready for the flight back out as her man does.

By contrast, over at the Rabanne show, Cardi B and Kollin Carter look very much like they’re up for any and every after-party that anybody’s throwing anywhere in town. What’s especially great about this shot by Peter White is what in chemistry we might call the valence-equivalence of the bonded molecules, as expressed in the couple themselves. Put bluntly, neither one of these talented people is a plus-one. As a fashionable bird of paradise, Cardi B would naturally be found at a Rabanne event. As this world’s dressed-to-the-nines stylist to the stars, Carter is smack in the middle of his long Parisian working day to see what he can throw into his vast palette for any of his clients. The leather seems to call forth the image of a fire-engine red Ducati parked outside, but Carter is such a confident dresser that his leathers seem boardroom-ready.

As caught at Balmain on September 25 by the talented Stephane Cardinale, everything’s jake with the newly-married Peltz-Beckham unit. We’re hoping the budding chef’s launch of his new hot-sauce range works out, but the price point, $34.99 for a package of two 7.5 fluid oz. bottles, may hit some bumps in the road en route to popularity.

Model Emily Ratajkowski brought a robust plus-one in the form of her son, Sylvester Apollo Bear, to the Loewe show on September 27, and pulled off quite a tidy silhouette as a pulled together, relaxed working mom, as captured here by Cardinale.

It’s difficult to read the many messages being telegraphed by Brady Cunningham’s plus-one, the impish, acclaimed and quietly surreal actor Jason Schwartzman, as snagged by Stephane Cardinale outside the Loewe show on September 27. Yes, the smoky gray frames do match those of his wife, and yes, the matching corduroy-collars on their nearly-matching faux-hunting jackets also match, but since Schwartzman is renowned as one of the sharper ironists in the trade, couldn’t this whole super-casual Saturday morning at the organic market look just be part of some larger hyper-ironic “comment” on husbands and wives who wear matching clothes? Our money is on that.