Paris is always a good idea. But it is a particularly good idea at seven o'clock on a Thursday evening in late August. Especially at the Musee des Arts Décoratifs, a jewel box in the middle of the city currently home to a Schiaparelli retrospective, for which Parisians are queuing long into aperitif hour. Tonight, the museum is also hosting one specific, very recognisable – or at least, very recognisable to Francophiles with an escapist bent who also have a Netflix subscription – fashion fan: Emily Cooper.
The third season of is well underway when I visit. “I feel like I know the city now,” gushes Ashley Park, who plays Emily's best friend Mindy, rattling off her favourite wine bars. Earlier this week, Lily Collins and Lucien Laviscount, who plays Emily's new paramour Alfie, got hot and heavy on the Tuileries ferris wheel; tomorrow, they will heads jovial producer. He is the show's Miss Congeniality – “Have you met Stephen yet?” several people ask, with the urgency of introducing me to a head of state – even more than fan favourite Park or Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who stars as Emily's ice-cold Sylvie but in real life, everyone assures me, is . I glimpse her only at a distance inside the Musée, in a plunging black gown, waiting to shoot a confrontation with Kate Walsh's Madeline. She catches my eye and beams.
