Paris à la Mode

PARIS — It’s fashion week in Paris, but in a town where every week is fashion week, what’s the difference? The international caravan that has traveled from New York to London to Milan has now settled here to see what the French designers of ready-to-wear have to offer for next fall. Unlike the splashy, center-of-town show that New York City sets up, fashion week here is spread out and somewhat quieter. It makes itself present most notably in relief against the city’s own style.