Editor’s Note: In honor of Vogue Runway’s 10th anniversary, our writers are penning odes to the most memorable spring 2016 shows. New today: Vetements’s presentation in a Chinese restaurant.

It was the season Vetements exploded. Everyone felt it. Packed knee to knee as we were in a Chinese restaurant in Belleville, witnessing the show which eventually catapulted Demna into becoming the creative director at Balenciaga.

It’s not often that the visceral sense of a generational shift in fashion is felt through a crowd. The frenzy had a lot to do with the collective feeling of a subversive gang of outsiders invading the Paris establishment—two brothers from Georgia, abetted by their Russian-born friends Gosha Rubchinskiy (opening in that instantly notorious DHL T-shirt) and their stylist Lo

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