Bedazzled Jockstraps & 15 Other Scenes From European Fashion Month

Fashion weeks are at once weird, wonderful, and exhausting. They're an alternate universe where runways become shopping carts for the rich and mood boards for everyone else. Where unnaturally hot people with cheekbones that could cut glass wear bedazzled jockstraps and stomp through water in absurdly heavy heels.

As European Fashion Month wound its way through London, Milan, and Paris, we sent Deputy Editor of V Magazine Mathias Rozenweig into the madness to capture the sights and scenes playing out on runways across the continent. Click through to see what he found.