
Resilient fashionistas who survived until the bitter end of Paris Fashion Week had one party in mind on its penultimate evening. A cryptic invitation had offered hints; it was simply called ‘Private Concert’, and named Cher, Robyn and Peggy Gou as performers.
Rumours blazed. The most popular belief was that Cher would announce a capsule collection with fast fashion brand H&M, following in the tracks of Naomi Campbell for Pretty Little Thing and Rita Ora for Primark, both of whom launched one-off designs for the companies this fashion month. Not so.