Paris Fashion Week after-parties: reach them or host your own

No — and no one seriously can: these invitations are nominative, are never sold and rest with the sole decision of the house or brand hosting. We position your request with our partners where possible, subject to availability and after review of the client's profile, without firm promises. We tell you upfront what is realistic — and where access is not achievable, we compose a private evening of equivalent standing, entirely in your image.

Through relationships, never through purchase: the houses and brands invite their clients, their partners and the profiles that matter to them. Our work consists of identifying the relevant evenings on the calendar, positioning your request with the right people — drawing where appropriate on your existing relationship with the houses — and organising the rest: wardrobe, chauffeur, timings. All of it subject to availability, after review of the client's profile and subject to validation by the host.

Production varies considerably with the format: a privatised table at a fashion restaurant, a post-show dinner for thirty guests and a reception in an hôtel particulier with full creative direction do not engage the same means. Add, depending on the programme, close protection — number of agents and duration — and performers. Every project receives a detailed quotation, line by line, conditions confirmed before any commitment; our guide How much does a VIP Paris Fashion Week cost explains what shapes each element.

It depends on the register you seek: an hôtel particulier in the Marais or Saint-Germain-des-Prés to entertain as if at home, a rooftop facing the Paris skyline for a cocktail, the private salon of a fashion-world table — Loulou or Girafe, by way of illustration — for a post-show dinner, a privatised table to extend the night. The most sought-after venues are booked long before the week; we secure access as soon as your format takes shape, subject to availability.

By contract and by method: NDAs signed by all staff — chef, service, performers, drivers, security —, vetted guest lists, access control, close protection where needed, phone management on request and choreographed arrivals and departures to avoid any exposure. No supplier comments on the evening, and your name appears on no visible document. Discretion is not an option at our receptions: it is the frame.

As early as possible: the most sought-after hôtels particuliers, rooftops and private salons are reserved long before each edition, and access requests for existing evenings are worked on weeks in advance. Four to eight weeks allow a full production to be composed without haste; on shorter notice we can still act, subject to availability, with a scope adjusted to the time remaining.