PRET-A-Porter

PRET- A - PORTER is an economic fashion design card game with worker placement, debt management and resource collection. This game oozes with theme. Each player represents a different fashion company that over the course of the game does 4 fashion shows that each have different criteria (public relations, quality, number of designs being shown, and trending). At the beginning of each round you place one of your three workers in anyone of 9 spaces. Space 1 is for a bank loan, space 2 is gaining contracts that provide you benefits at no cost but deteriorate over the course of the game, space 3 is buying building that increase your upkeep but provide you different benefits, space 4 is buying new employees that also increase your upkeep and provide benefits, space 5 is gaining new designs, space 6-8 is buying materials for designs at different prices, the more expensive grants you better quality and thus more quality tokens and space 9 is either getting money, PR, trending or quality. The winner at the end of the game is the one who has the most victory points and money combined. Everything works so well together and the rules are not to difficult to understand. I would say this is a medium to heavy board game. The components are very good quality, thick player boards, wooden player tokens, wooden material tokens, great board, but the score markers are a bit small and flimsy. The only complaint I have is that during the course of the game, it seems essential to get at least 1 accountant employee in your company, otherwise you will accumulate to much debt and other players may get to many accountants leading to one player collecting a large amount of money, which essentially is points. This is a small complaint and knowing this for future games definitely helps. Highly recommend this game.

Trying to get my 13 y/o daughter more interesting in games, I bought Prêt-à-Porter for her due to her interest in fashion. It’s a euro game with heavy economics, but she loved it. Honestly, even though I’ve leaned more towards themes of adventures and fantasy, I personally like this one a lot. Highly recommended!

This is a great worker placement game, the art is beautiful and you can also find solo rules in BGG.

Great economic euro with a fun theme