Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela

Plus performance art at Viktor & Rolf. Sometimes a fashion show is not just a fashion show.

PARIS — It was just a regular Wednesday afternoon — except the sidewalks of the normally sedate Avenue Georges V were clogged by a shrieking mass of teenagers, smartphones aloft, free hands waving over police barriers in a frenzy. It was the sort of scene that wouldn’t be surprising outside a rock concert or a major movie premiere or even the Oscars, except that this was none of the above. It was a Balenciaga couture show.

Or what might be more appropriately termed a Balenciaga couture happening, the second under the mononymic creative director

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