Is covering the Paris fashion shows a plum job filled with lavish meals and fab parties or a grueling exercise requiring stamina and patience?

Both, actually. A Time photographer records an "average" day for Valentino’s favorite muse and for two specialty store buyers from New York

 

THE MUSE Nati Abascal met Valentino Garavani and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti when she was an 18-year-old model. In the 30 years since, she has become a front-row fixture at Valentino's shows and a regular at his famously lavish parties THE BUYERS As the owners, buyers, managers and workaholics behind the New York City boutique Kirna Zabête, Beth Buccini, right, and Sarah Easley, left, don't go to Paris fashion week for fun, frolic or glamour. They go to predict what their Soho customers will want to wear in six months' time
  Photographs for TIME by DAVID ELLIS/THE WHITE AGENCY

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