Here they come — the £20,000 blazer brigade, also known as the 0.01 per cent, who have spent this week sitting on the front row of the couture shows in Paris. What can this highly rarefied group of shoppers, whose retail-therapy budgets leave most people’s kvetching about stamp duty in the shade, possibly have to teach us about our wardrobes? Well, quite a lot actually — even Chanel clients can get caught in the snow.
Theirs was a radical solution: coats, tailored jackets and denim. That might sound facetious, but I don’t mean it to be. The peculiar joy of seeing the street-style crowd wearing clothes suited to the weather is matched only by my curiosity to see what sort of outerwear the women with