There are fashion shows. There are Paris ready-to-wear shows. And there are Chanel shows. Catwalk-wise, this is as good as it gets… as long as Michel Gaubert is doing the sounds. So much more than a DJ, he decides the soundtrack of the season and is the most sought-after fashion show sound engineer. The 47-year-old Frenchman (who incidentally has dated Kate Moss) also does the music for Fendi, Raf Simons, Balenciaga, Y-3, Dries Van Noten, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix and Viktor & Rolf – you name it, he's done it. Not so long ago he released a compilation of fashion show tunes, called Musique Que J’Aime, with his longtime friend, Karl Lagerfeld, who he's been hanging with since the ’70s. During fashion week, as well as catwalk melodies, he provides music for all the endless after-show parties. Occasionally he downloads his iPod on to limited edition CDs that sell (out) at cult fashion boutiques like Colette in Paris. Otherwise his jobs range from prestigious, million dollar-type budget designer/high street collaborations in Moscow to nights at the Panorama club in Berlin (according to Gaubert now so much more fashionable than say, Pacha in Ibiza). Other Gaubert facts include that the total number of tracks stored in his Mac exceeds 76,000 and he annually spends £100,000 on new ones. His signature? Euro-pop, electronic, clean, futuristic, elegant but only if it's in fashion, darling. Right now he's playing James Murphy, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah and Devendra Banhart.