White rabbit, white rabbit. On Thursday, Chloé and creative director Chemena Kamali bookended the first day of October with a morning display of optimistic spring fashion and an evening of after-dark revelry with friends of the house and no shortage of runway regulars and campaign staples.
Just after 10 a.m., Cynthia Erivo was stopping traffic outside the show space on Avenue de l’Observatoire in a floor-sweeping bohemian black skirt and printed purple jacket—with her signature lengthy nails painted in coordinating hues. By nightfall, she’d traded her unique look for floaty teal plaid silk chiffon and oodles of sculptural hardware around her neck.
“People may not think I’m a ‘Chloé girl,’ but I am. I love—and buy—the clothes,” Erivo told Vogue during a post-show fête at Lapérouse. “Chloé can be for goths and edgy people, too. Plus I’m a geek, so I was busy looking at all the construction and the 1960s references to Chemena’s mum coming down the runway earlier.” A particular piece that piqued her attention was a juxtaposing “sexy and romantic” harness neckline gown in jet-black broderie anglaise—perhaps something you may see her step out in for her Hollywood Bowl concert later this month or a red carpet for the forthcoming Children of Blood and Bone.
Kamali noted that the exquisite eyelet embroidery pieces felt “very personal” to her, too. “Chloé’s ‘robes de jeunes filles’ from the early years of the maison were often made in broderie anglaise, and there is something about the memory and feeling of those pieces that stayed with me,” she reflected. “It led me to explore the technique in a very instinctive way, looking at 19th-century archival threadwork and translating it into everything from the lightest organzas to crisp, heavy cottons. For me, it’s about taking something rooted so deeply in Chloé’s history and making it feel emotional and alive again.”
Also taking in her first Chloé show was Claire Danes. “I was thinking, ‘My three year old daughter would want everything’—and I mean that in the best way possible,” the actress mused of the collection, adding that she gravitates toward the label because it’s “deeply feminine, yet steeped in strength.” It’s a flying visit to the fashion capital for the booked-solid Danes. “I’m filming a sequel to a movie I was in 20 years ago, The Family Stone, and The Beast in Me is coming back for a second season,” she said.
Though the invite said 8:30 p.m., some 90 minutes later, Kamali’s birds of paradise were still flitting around the downstairs bar excitedly catching up over glasses of white wine and a soundtrack of soft disco. The labyrinthine halls of the centuries-old institution (said to once contain hidden tunnels to the French Senate so politicians could secretly visit their lovers) were thronged as multi-generational guests including Natasha Lyonne, Maude Apatow, Pat Cleveland, Caroline Trentini, and Natalia Bryant arrived in droves.
Front-row fixture Camille Rowe hung out in a corner, gabbing with Pixie Geldof. “I’ve such a long history with the brand as I starred in the fragrance campaign for [Chloé Eau de Parfum] in 2011,” she said, dropping back into character to demonstrate the signature aughts-era pose of leaning, dreamily, on a giant perfume bottle. (The ad’s photographers, Inez and Vinoodh, were also in attendance.) Now that she’s a new mom, having welcomed her baby boy during the summer, a night out at the old-school Parisian haunt with friends was extra welcome. Meanwhile, mere centimeters away, a newly minted Chloé girl was just receiving her wings: Apple Martin, who had graced the runway hours earlier, twirled in her gauzy periwinkle dress in front of someone’s phone ring light.
A dinner with hearty courses of foie gras, sea bass carpaccio, chateaubriand au poivre, and rigatoni with morel cream stretched into the wee hours, until the restaurant’s famous chocolate soufflé eventually arrived around midnight while the room was in a haze of cigarette smoke. Illustrating the extent of the eclectic guest list, Chloé ambassador and K-pop star Anna Tanaka from Meovv—wearing her “favorite look” from the Fall 2025 collection—dug into the decadent dessert seats away from English chanteuse Jorja Smith.
“I’m excited for people to feel the freedom and emotion in this collection,” Kamali told Vogue. “It came from a very instinctive place for me, from all my Chloé obsessions, returning to the things I love about the house, the details and techniques that I find myself coming back to again and again. I wanted to bring all of those feelings together without overthinking them.”

Claire Danes, Cynthia Erivo

Noee Abita, Emma Mackey

Natasha Lyonne

Maude Apatow

Claire Danes, Chemena Kamali

Apple Martin

Chemena Kamali, Cynthia Erivo

Jessica Miller, Vinoodh Matadin, Inez van Lamsweerde

Ines De Ramon

Tish Weinstock

Ana Kras, Mary Komasa, Katharina Kaminski

Caroline Trentini, Chemena Kamali, Natasha Poly, Julia Stegner













