Classic couture meets the latest technology in show
Models wear creations for the fall/winter 2015-16 Haute Couture fashion collection of Chanel, far left, and Giorgio Armani, left, presented in Paris, on Tuesday. [AP/NEWSIS]
Moore and Stewart’s celebrity roulette
Chanel’s guests were led to their seats in a giant recreated casino Tuesday inside Paris’ Grand Palais - replete with roulette tables and fully functioning gambling machines that had one Chinese fashionista addicted within minutes.
But the real gasps came when Kristen Stewart and a diamond-encrusted Julianne Moore walked out through an arch - both wearing bespoke Chanel couture - to take a seat around a celebrity-filled poker table in the center of the catwalk. There they hugged, chatted, gambled and laughed all through the show.
Moore and Stewart grew close as they co-starred in “Still Alice,’’ playing mother and daughter. They both dined together in an exclusive Paris restaurant last weekend.
Fellow gamblers included singers Rita Ora and Vanessa Paradis and model Lara Stone, who were there to showcase Chanel’s latest jewelry collection.
Chanel’s 3-D couture
Lagerfeld, 81, says the secret to feeling young is always looking to the future.
Nothing demonstrated this better than Chanel’s bright, high-tech couture show that featured Coco Chanel’s famed skirt-suit jacket made via 3-D printing.
“I like the idea of taking the most iconic jacket of the 20th century and turning it into an object that was impossible to make when that jacket was invented,’’ explained the couturier.
The quilted jackets were completely seamless and seamstress-less - created by feeding Lagerfeld’s sketches into a computer program, that the couturier eccentrically named “Sweetie.’’
“Computers are going to enter more and more in the evolution and techniques of fashion - you cannot resist. On the contrary, if it exists in its time couture will live on,’’ he said.
Armani and stars attend shows
Co-stars from 2009’s “The International,’’ Naomi Watts and Clive Owen, caught up with each other at the Armani Prive Show, sitting side by side.
Nearby, was French Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche - who confessed that she didn’t know designer Giorgio Armani all that well, as he doesn’t attend dinners he invites her to.
“We’ve never had dinner, really. He leaves everyone to have dinner and goes home; probably thinks about the next season,’’ she said, laughing.
Armani is elegant but cautious
It was, as ever, an elegant affair at Armani Prive, with the 80-year-old couturier serving up his expected array of satin gowns, jacquard skirts, feathered fringing, and long evening dresses embroidered with lashings of Swarovski crystals and sequins.
Peak shoulders on jackets and backless dresses were the season’s focus, alongside Siamese-looking fitted jackets. They cut a distinct style alongside short black wigs on models, though have done without the overly-billowing, segmented satin pants.
Though Armani is, with reason, one of the most respected designers in the world, in his couture he could afford to push the creative envelope and be more adventurous. AP
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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