Lemaire Menswear Autumn 2019

HQ in NYC, the mothership, all of Runway’s various reviewers’ schedules are masterminded via spreadsheet by two awesome colleagues named Emily and Eliseé. Their organizational skills and good humor are beyond compare. From menswear to couture to ready-to-wear, this duo must negotiate a nexus of competing factors whose complexities make Brexit look like ordering a bagel. Once these have been resolved, they deliver the aforementioned spreadsheet: All we have to do is follow it. Very, very rarely does something goes awry. This Lemaire appointment was billed as a job due for Thursday at 4 p.m. So, up I tootled to the Duperré School of Applied Arts straight after LV. There was an ominous lack of hubbub. I spotted Bruce Pask of Bergdorf Goodman on the corner, mid-meeting in the Broken Arm, and asked if he was Lemaire-bound. This never-miss-a-trick looked startled at the idea of a presentation not on