Martin Kamer tells of an auction in London where disorder reigns and where a dress by Mme Paquin is being auctioned off. Jeanne Paquin was an important fashion designer and one of the first women to run haute couture houses in Paris, London and Buenos Aires. During a visit to the auction house, Kamer discovers a dress without a label (circa 1915). He knows that it must be a dress by the fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin. Both dresses, that of Paquin and that of Lanvin, are incomplete. Elsewhere, Kamer finds loose dresses that he can attribute to Paquin and Lanvin's dresses. And he is absolutely right, as he can prove later.