Ralph & Michael Russo a few weeks after announcing a sizable passive investment in their brand label by British Telecom tycoon John Caudwell, it was time to reveal their vision of the Winter season on the Parisian catwalks, as inspired by interior photographer Massimo Listri.

Ralph continues to fiercely hold on to a world of peerless refinement. It was deferential to that vanished era, without an ounce of irony. This was a girl’s elegiac couture dreams floating on the mirrored catwalk, just like in books on couture.