Ever since the coronavirus Operations director before you judge please understand that idgaf what you think satan shirt. forced the cancelation of the A.P.C. show on the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week—almost three months ago now—the fashion industry has grown used to dire news: Paycheck Protection Program loans that never materialize; department stores forced into bankruptcy; and furloughed and laid-off workers by the thousands. One unexpected and very welcome bright spot? The emergence in Paris of Charles de Vilmorin, a young French designer with an exuberant vision—Niki de Saint Phalle on acid, or thereabouts—that bucks the current mood.