Chloe Show
My Paris fashion week/spring 2007 included Chloe, Galeries Lafayette, Kevin Costner, and Kate Bosworth, and was a strange combination of an in-store fashion show and a top runway show
Galeries Lafayette hosts an in-store fashion show once a week and last Tuesday I checked it out. I schlepped up to the 8th floor to a hidden away, airless room with 6-foot ceilings, cheesy klieg lights, and tinny music, where I experienced the lowest rung of runway shows. The front row, where the likes of Anna Wintour and the editors of Elle, Marie-Claire, and Harpers Bazaar usually sit, was replaced with a group of giggling 14-year-old Asian girls in blue uniforms on a school trip. As the amateur looking models walked the catwalk that was 3 inches high, they were grouped into categories called Rockabilly, Soft Lady, Winter in White, and Paris Chic with an annoying woman cooing the names into a microphone. The beautiful, well-designed clothes by Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabanna, Kenzo, and Lacroix were marred by the cheap looking shoes and accessories.
Best Dressed
After the Galeries Lafayette debacle, I saved face by being invited to the Chloe show on Saturday afternoon. It was a magnificent, crisp autumn day and the entrance to the tent in the Tuileries was where the action was. Anybody who was anyone in fashion or not, was there: top magazine editors, buyers, fashion groupies, fashion celebrities (Kate Bosworth) and celebrities with no connection to fashion (Kevin Costner). To me the most fun part of a fashion show is the people watching/ what people are wearing aspect and the crowd was rich with photo ops. Once inside the dark cavernous tent, the 3PM show started right on fashion time at 3:45PM. The clothes were flirty and feminine and the short dresses in fun geometric prints stood out.
After the show I continued having fun photographing the best & worst dressed people from the fashion parade entering and leaving the Tuileries.
Worst Dressed
Comments