Outside the Coperni show venue near the Pompidou Center in Paris, the night air was pierced with the shrieks of fans greeting the arrival of guests such as Emily Ratajkowski, Maisie Williams and Cole Sprouse.
Not a sound filtered down to the basement bunker where Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer were preparing to unveil their spring collection. No wonder: the state-of-the-art space belongs to the Institute for Research and…