The City of Light's five-day-long fall-winter 2011-2012 menswear displays wrapped up Sunday with hard-edged romance at Lanvin, hills alive with the sound of Austrian music at Yves Saint Laurent and the dinner party from hell, hosted by New York Based designer Thom Browne.

Rumor has it that Browne's banquet _ featuring models in period dress and knit wig caps and others with Howard Stern wigs and sweatbands _ was supposed to represent America's first Thanksgiving dinner, but the message was clearly lost on the audience of fashion editors, journalists and stylists. They were busy making dinner plans on their cell phones while the models shuffled around the table _ the performance art version of a runway show. The audience chalked up the whole plodding thing up to a bizarre reenactment of some obscure (and boring) episode of the French revolution.

Another New York-based designer is now showing in the French capital. Yigal Azrouel made his Paris debut with a collection that was completely on-trend with the top looks on Paris' runways. Chunky knitwear? Check. Slim trousers? Check. Shearling jackets? Check. Cozy layers? Check.

Standout pieces from Azrouel's collection included an upscale tracksuit in gray sweatpant material and a fitted coat in colorblock gray and black.

For its debut runway show on the Paris calendar, Arnys put on a mini-concert, complete with a Nick Cave-style crooner. The Paris-based label has been confectioning classic menswear fit for a premier _ the house dresses French Prime Minister Francois Fillon _ for three generations, and it showed _ in a good way. Models in hunt-ready, landed gentry garb _ jackets in Hermes orange corduroy with leather elbow patches _ struck dignified poses on the catwalk-cum-stage they shared