PARIS — After a mostly commercial Milan, fashion week in the French capital opened with a bang à la Parisienne: Ideas! Concepts! Experimentation!
At Hodakova, the dimly lit show ended with a trio of models wearing chairs. Others were decked out in artfully placed carpets. If it recalls Hussein Chalayan that’s because designer Ellen Hodakova is a Chalayan enthusiast. That was the climax, however. The core of the collection was about backless tailoring: a rumination on the façade one…

