Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.

PARIS–“At the very beginning, knits were the bases of the concept, but since then, it has been about merging various types of categories, such as the trench, the bomber jacket, or the biker jacket, or a classic men’s knit pull-over or cardigan sweatercombined with a skirt or a skirt and a cardigan and so forth,” said Chitose Abe following the second of her three mini shows this morning inside the courtyard of the Hotel d’Evreux. Ms. Abe, who established Sacai in 1999 after either years of working with Junya Watanabe at Comme des Garçons, has been presenting in Paris over the past few years. But it was her first time doing a small live presentation, with models wearing everything from a beige fringed knit and a brown short skirt, to a flared sleeve cable knit sweater with a sleeveless pull-over trench and a feather skirt, to an asymmetrical cable knit skirt with chiffon underlay and a sleeveless cotton tank and fur aviator collar.

Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.

PARIS–I remember meeting Ms. Limi Yamamoto at Yohji Yamamoto‘s Tokyo headquarters over three years ago. She spoke with such conviction about how much rock music has influenced her life and her designs. For Limi, it gave her a way to distinguish her own designs from her father’s, who certainly casts a massive shadow over her work.

But at yesterday afternoon’s show, Limi demonstrated that she no longer requires rock to be inspired. As the soft sound of piano and the occasional bagpipe wafted out of the speakers, a model emerged in a light grey wool cropped biker jacket with matching shorts, worn with a long print cotton shirt and pants. The designer focused on her training in pattern making in a collection that played on volumes and shapes. “I began with a piece of square fabric to see how many different shapes I could make from it,” she said.