NOT ON TRACK: It’s a big day at Paris Fashion Week for British designers’ shows, but for many U.K. fashion editors, they will have to watch the spectacles from their small iPhone screens.
On Friday morning, all Eurostar trains between Paris and London were canceled due to an unexploded bomb from World War II found near the train tracks.
More than 10 services were canceled and thousands of passengers faced the disruption, but nobody felt it as much as the British press who were eagerly traveling for Sarah Burton’s Givenchy debut followed by Harris Reed’s Nina Ricci show in the afternoon and Victoria Beckham’s later in the evening.
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“A WW2 bomb hates to see us coming,” Henrik Lischke, senior fashion features editor at Grazia U.K., posted on his Instagram stories. He was traveling to Gare du Nord with Jack Moss, fashion features editor at Wallpaper Magazine.
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Ten hours prior to the incident, Harper’s Bazaar U.K. and Elle U.K.‘s fashion director Avril Mair was documenting her excitement for Burton’s show by posting a photo of her alarm clocks to catch the 6 a.m. Eurostar, which was canceled.
The commotion of editors scrambling on social media had an uncanny parallel to a scene in “The Devil Wears Prada,” where Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestly is desperately trying to get home from Miami, but her flights have been canceled due to a rainstorm.
“Someone must be getting out. Call Donatella. Get her jet. Call everybody else that we know that has a jet — Irv? Call every – this is your responsibility — this is your job. Get, me, home!” she tells her assistant Andy Sachs on the phone.
The airlines were fully booked in the morning and with only a few airlines flying out to Paris in the late afternoon, which still wouldn’t give anyone enough time to get to Beckham’s 8 p.m. show.