Fashion Magazine

PARIS
By Bernadette Morra

PEEK SHOW
A visit to a designer showroom is always revealing. At Alexander McQueen, we learned that toothbrushes were used to fray strips of silk, and we discovered at Balenciaga that what looked like giant fishnet was actually velvet rolled into tubes. And Nicolas Ghesquière’s hand-knit pleather bomber jacket? It weighs in at a hefty 10 pounds.