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**Nicole Phelps** (1:53)
This is The Run-Through, I'm Nicole Phelps. I'm joined here in the studio by Vogue Runway's Senior Fashion News Editor, Max Berlinger. Hi, Max. Hi.
Welcome back from Paris. And Luke Leach, our long-time contributor who is dialing in from London. He is fresh off the plane, like barely 12 hours from Corsica, where you saw a very energetic Jacques Mousse show.

**Luke Leitch** (2:19)
It's true, Nicole, and hi, Nicole, and hi, Max. And yes, you know what, today, I'm feeling what I can only describe as something that I can barely remember, but it's called coldness for the first time in about two and a half weeks, and it's quite refreshing.

**Max Berlinger** (2:34)
Oh, good.

**Luke Leitch** (2:35)
But honestly, Nicole, I feel like I am in London and I am stationary for about 10 days before heading to Sicily, but I also feel like my molecules haven't settled, and they're back somewhere between Corsica and Paris, because I only got in at about midnight last night.

**Nicole Phelps** (2:51)
Well, we must start with the thing that I heard about non-stop, which is the heat. You were together in Paris on the three hottest days in Paris' recorded history.
Paint us a picture of what it was like to sit outside at Rick Owens underneath the blazing mid-morning sun.

**Max Berlinger** (3:15)
It was hot. I will say that here, I wrote famously about how I like the heat and that it didn't bother me but although I will say I had an air-conditioned hotel room at night, the Parisians do not have wide access to air conditioning and they all talk to me about how it's hard to sleep and that they were tired. But I mean, it was a lot. I think like two or three days of heat is one thing, but for it to be like seven days of a hundred plus Fahrenheit degree heat was a lot. Yeah. A few designers had to change the times of their shows at last minute or venue. So it definitely affected the whole undergoing of the week.

**Nicole Phelps** (3:54)
The big question is, did it impact the clothes? I know that the collections are developed for months ahead of time, but who do you feel answered the call for light, breezy, airy clothes best?

**Luke Leitch** (4:11)
Off the top of my head, I would say breezy Julian at Dries. I think that was very breezy. There were the open backs, there were the short shorts, the little ballet slippers with tie-up straps.
But I think also that perception is also based on the fact that there was such a lightness of touch. I was actually going to talk about Dries later because it's one of my two real standout shows.
But quite a few people talked about lightness as a concept, but I think not so many achieved it. To go back to the general point about Heat, I think I love a hot season. I always love June, menswear over all seasons, then comes September, womenswear, because it's obviously more of a pleasant experience. But in June, especially clothes have to work. Clothes are at first a response to the elements. And sure, you have outerwear seasons, but it's fun. I remember there was a season back in 2018 maybe, where it was also extremely hot in Paris, and it felt similar to that. I remember people losing their temperature and losing their minds in an Issey Miyake show. And every time I saw Max, he had a popsicle.