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City authorities take aim at apartment-based Paris Fashion Week shows

By Noëmie Leclercq

Published on 08.01.2026 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 min

Luxury brands are increasingly taking to showing their collections and setting up pop-up stores in private flats in the French capital. City Hall takes a dim view of this trend and has swung into action to enforce zoning rules.

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City authorities take aim at apartment-based Paris Fashion Week shows

Luxury brands are increasingly taking to showing their collections and setting up pop-up stores in private flats in the French capital. City Hall takes a dim view of this trend and has swung into action to enforce zoning rules.

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France City authorities take aim at apartment-based Paris Fashion Week shows

Luxury brands are increasingly taking to showing their collections and setting up pop-up stores in private flats in the French capital. City Hall takes a dim view of this trend and has swung into action to enforce zoning rules.

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Match point Roland Garros serves notice to Printemps

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French labour inspectorate to monitor fashion week more closely

French parliamentary commission to look into models' debts to agencies

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France
City authorities take aim at apartment-based Paris Fashion Week shows

Levi’s
Denim giant's luxury ambitions nipped in the bud by Paris city hall

Front Row | Fashion weeks
Casting director extraordinaire Anita Bitton, the new arbiter of Chanel fashion shows

Match point
Roland Garros serves notice to Printemps

Grey fashion market
Under-the-counter trade in fashion show invites hits new heights

Spotlight
Celebrities drive up Fashion Week front row prices

Front Row
Samer Al Rayes, the dentist who provides lodgings for Paris Fashion Week models