The Row | Pre Fall Winter 2023/2024 | The Looks

The Row | Pre Fall Winter 2023/2024 | The Looks For some, it’s because it is the ne plus ultra of chic. For others, the unwavering powerful vision. For plenty, it’s the quiet yet palpable lust for what was presented on the runway. And for me? It was the serenity. That was the resounding takeaway at Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s The Row spring 2023 show—and I am not talking about the green juice you could swiftly imbibe on the way in, or the figs and grapes you could snaffle on the way out. (Fruit that was so perfect and delicious that it must have come from somewhere like Fauchon, where you can marvel at such things as $95 pineapples. Seriously.) The serenity of the Olsens’ clothes, of their show, of their space (a particularly gorgeous hotel particulier a stone’s throw from Place Vendôme) was a balm to the soul. Only a year or so ago we talked a good game about dialing back and reining in, but nowadays? Oof, the din, the noise, the volume, it’s all back. Just louder. But, feeling and l