WARDROBE: Surface2Air

While practically every editor, model and fashion week hanger-on crammed into Colette, on rue Saint-Honore (seriously, it was practically impossible to walk around freely) to shop and be seen between the Paris collections, we wandered over to rue De L’Arbre and popped by Surface2Air, one of its younger, bastard children. Like the 10-year-old Colette, which was the first to do it, the shop pulls one of those three-in-one numbers, acting as part boutique, part gallery, and part bookstore. Unlike its progenitor, though, which stocks Fendi, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, this smaller shop doesn’t have a restaurant and sells clothes by younger, more obscure designers like Alice McCall, Wendy & Jim, and Henrik Vibskov.