Paris Fashion Week is upon us, along with the infamous parties. Following a full day of runway shows , you'll find the models (and LiLo , of course) lifting their skirts at one of the clubs below. A word to the unbeautiful: you'll have to be B-list or above to make it past the velvet rope this week.

The force behind two of the hottest bars in Paris -- the Experimental Cocktail Club and the recently opened Curio Parlor -- Romee de Gorianoff abandoned a golden banking career to pursue his true love: the cocktail. His contemporary speakeasies are packed nightly with an almost exclusively word-of-mouth buzz, full of interesting types serious about their liquor.