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Inside Paris Fashion Week’s Ultimate Power Play: How Harper’s Bazaar and Dover Street Market Are Rewriting the Rules with Their Icons Issue Party

Ever wonder what happens when the relentless buzz of Paris Fashion Week collides with the electric vibes of a boutique like Dover Street Market? Picture this: hours before the iconic Chanel show, some of the sharpest minds in fashion and culture gather in the chic Marais neighborhood to pop champagne and celebrate the art of style. It’s not just any party—it’s a toast to Harper’s Bazaar’s September icons issue, an annual salute to those shaping culture with fearless creativity. With editor-in-chief Samira Nasr and Dover Street Market’s Adrian Joffe at the helm, this intimate soirée was more than glitz; it was a melting pot where visionaries like Simone Rocha and Kei Ninomiya mingled, ideas flowed as freely as the Moët & Chandon, and artistry took center stage amidst the city’s finest. So, if you think fashion week’s just about runway drama, think again—it’s where culture meets collaboration, and legends toast to what’s next. LEARN MORE

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Amidst the fanfare of Paris Fashion Week, just hours before the Chanel show, Harper’s Bazaar joined forces with specialty store Dover Street Market to toast our September icons issue, and, more specifically, the release of our feature on the lauded store, with an intimate cocktail party. Our editor-in-chief Samira Nasr and president of Dover Street Market International (and Comme des Garçons) Adrian Joffe gathered a room of the industry’s most exciting creatives to sip champagne by La Maison Moët & Chandon, swap opinions on the week’s fashion shows, and celebrate artistry in Paris’s stylish Marais neighborhood.

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Attendee and designer Simone Rocha

Tucked away in DSM’s courtyard last Monday, the soirée was host to notable guests including photographers Wolfgang Tillmans, Paolo Roversi (who photographed the feature), and Joshua Woods, Baby2Baby’s Kelly Sawyer, model Rila Fukushima, and stylists Stella Greenspan and Becky Akinyode. Designers in attendance ranged from Kei Ninomiya of Noir Kei Ninomiya, Aaron Esh, and Talia Byre to Simone Rocha and Matières Fécales’ Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran. All of whom came dressed to impress in the season’s finest.

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Our September icons issue is an annual tradition that celebrates those making an indelible mark on culture. Dover Street Market’s proposition centers the same ethos; the multi-brand retailer with locations across the globe has long served as a sort of incubator for the industry’s most exciting design talent. The two institutions came together to toast creativity and collaboration during fashion’s biggest week of the year.