Fashion week, these days, is about much more than just the collections. Showmanship is the name of game, and in the meticulously executed sartorial extravaganzas, the soundtrack is an element that no producer can afford to overlook. Music royalty - past and present - is enlisted to ensure a full assault on the senses. Here, we bring you the soundtrack to the Paris menswear shows, with a few tracks streamed in for your listening pleasure.
DAY ONE
’A Man Alone’ by John Barry; ’Monica Gems (Daniel Avery Remix)’ by The Horrors; ’Dernier Domicile Connu’ by Francois de Roubaix; ’Mattress Instrumental’ by Vince Staples & Michael Uzowuru; ’Monica Gems’ (Daniel Avery Remix) by The Horrors
Raf Simons
’Plastic Star’ (Sleeparchive remix) by Beytone; ’I put a spell on You’ by Marilyn Manson; ’Baby did a Bad Bad Thing’ by Chris Isaak; ’Altogether Lost’ by Emptyset; ’Cactus is SaveD’ by Plexus; ’Modern Love’ by David Bowie
Music production: Michel Gaubert
DAY TWO
’Age of Love’ (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella Mix) by The Age of Love Honey, Dijon Special Edit
’5 Bit Blues’ (reworked version) by Kid Koala
’Hittaz Only’ by Katie Got Bandz; ’Helix’ by Byetone (Jeff Judd remix)
DAY THREE
’Tiganeasca’ by Fanfare Ciocărlia; ’Banat’ by Amsterdam Klezmer Band; ’Daddy’s Gone’ by Dejan Sparavalo; ’Manea’ by Fanfare Ciocărlia; ’Goodbye Macedonia’ by Kocani Okestar
Maison Martin Margiela
’Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1 A 1 (Remix)’ by DJ Spooky; ’I Feel Love’ by Plantains
’Eisbaer’ by Grauzone; ’Almenrausch’ by Bergtraum; ’Operator’ by Tres; ’Living for now (12" version)’ by New Age; ’Konkylie’ by When Saints Go Machine
’Cold Song’ by Klaus Nomi & H.Purcell; ’She Cried’ by Rowland S. Howard
Music production: Discodromo
DAY FOUR
Dior Homme
’Our Darkness’ by Anne Clark
Music production: Michel Gaubert
Miharayasuhiro
Live drum set
Music: Tokyo Dageki Dan
Damir Doma
Mixed samples of ’Under Ice’ by Kate Bush
Music production: Senjan Jansen
’Prognosen Bomm’ by Robag Wruhme; ’Governing Correctly’ by Breton; ’Taken’ by The Eyes in the Heat; ’Jumbo’ by Underworld; ’In the Wake’ by Tristesse Contemporaine; ’Flyng to Berlin’ by Savages
AMI
’Poursuite’ by Guem; ’Ne Noya’ (Daphni Mix) by Cos-Ber-Zam; ’Entourage’ by Guem; ’Emmenez-moi’ by Charles Aznavour (live-performance by Benjamin Clementine)
DAY FIVE
’1979’ by Smashing Pumpkins; ’Sugar Ray’ by Jesus & the Mary Chains / Honeys Dead; ’Loose Lips’ by Wooden Ships Loose Lips / Start to Dream EP; ’Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ by Smashing Pumpkins; ’Tonight’ by Smashing Pumpkins
Bespoke soundtrack by Ty Segall