A line snaked around the block well before start time.
And something worth standing in the rain for.
Backstage, de Javier described meeting Tisci at a party in LA.
It was like a movie.
And he said, Im going to be that person for you, he recalled.
(The only way to face it is to take it by the horns, he quipped).
His compatriot from coutures golden era, Cristobal Balenciaga, was first on the tribute list.
Christian Diors New Look and Madame Gress art of draping also got nods.
Or how, at the same house, Tisci once toyed with horns on baseball caps and the like.
The embroidery on a corset and a hand-shredded tulle shrug also owed a debt to Cristobals archives.
In the front row was Tisci, in a fly-by on his way to New York.
I saw something very fresh in Luis.
The most important thing is to be free and look to the future.
To that end, de Javier is currently apartment hunting in Paris.
