Rick Owens may be the only designer who could get his front row — not to mention Courtney Love and Fergie — to wear garbage bags. Or, O.K.: ponchos that looked like garbage bags.

But there they were, neatly folded on every seat around the fountains in the back of the Palais de Tokyo. And there were the guests, putting them on atop their carefully choreographed outfits of the day, then eyeing one another to make sure they weren’t the only ones looking silly. And then realizing, hell yeah, they all were doofuses together, and beginning to laugh.