PARIS \u2013 The Louis Vuitton red carpet was rolled out at the historic Place Vendome on Wednesday for a much-needed happy ending to a dark Paris Fashion Week season, marred by the multimillion-dollar heist of Kim Kardashian West\u2019s jewelry.<\/p>\n
A roll call of actresses including Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Williams, Sophie Turner and a heavily pregnant Lea Seydoux joined tennis star Roger Federer in the front row \u2013 posing with Vuitton\u2019s lauded designer Nicolas Ghesquiere.<\/p>\n
And what a show it was.<\/p>\n
Here are the highlights of Wednesday\u2019s ready-to-wear collections, capping the spring-summer 2017 season.<\/p>\n
Louis Vuitton: the clothes<\/strong><\/p>\n In Ghesquiere\u2019s finest collection since restyling the house in 2013, the French designer exposed his passion for the \u201880s and riffed on science fiction.<\/p>\n Big hair, big shoulders, big sparkle, big prints, big eyes: that was the mantra for spring-summer.<\/p>\n Bold sunset-shaped eye make-up that stretched from ear to ear setting the fashion dial firmly to the age of Glam Rock.<\/p>\n That era was also known for its obsession with sci-fi films, referenced by Ghesquiere in three-dimensional stereo-sound in this 45-piece show.<\/p>\n Styles that evoked Star Wars were seen in lozenge patches over the bust, curved asymmetrical forms on shirts with metallic sheer overlay, tunic-like gowns with boots, and armour-like white shoulder pads that looked like they might have been snipped from the back of a Darth Vader paratrooper.<\/p>\n But the beauty of this collection was in its remarkable stylish silhouettes and the deftness of the cuts that made it a more grown-up display that we\u2019ve become used to.<\/p>\n A loose grey jacket with structured, mushroom-shaped oversize sleeves produced a stylish silhouette as it gently curved out at the bottom \u2013 in almost deconstructed patches.<\/p>\n The designer, who revitalized Balenciaga during his tenure there from 1997 to 2012, seems to be doing the same at Louis Vuitton.<\/p>\n Alicia Vikander surprised<\/strong><\/p>\n Oscar-winning actress Vikander landed in Paris on Tuesday and was surprised to discover her face plastering billboards all around town.<\/p>\n \u201cWell I didn\u2019t actually know, but I arrived yesterday and I see that my film (\u201cThe Light Between Oceans\u201d) is coming out today in France, so I\u2019ve seen the posters up,\u201d she told The Associated Press from the Louis Vuitton front row, wearing a white blouse and cleanly cut Louis Vuitton naval jacket.<\/p>\n The \u201cDanish Girl\u201d star may well not have enough time to talk to her PR team on her movie release dates as she\u2019s simply too busy jet setting around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI live on an airplane. I’m kind of a nomad living out of my suitcases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n And when she\u2019s not in the sky, she\u2019s busy with her new role as film producer.<\/p>\n \u201cI just produced my own film after starting my own (film production) company last year. I wrapped my first production a week ago, \u2018Euphoria,\u2019 with Eva Green and Charlotte Rampling,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n US Ambassador bids farewell<\/strong><\/p>\n Ever since Jane D. Hartley became U.S. ambassador to France in October 2014, the well-groomed diplomat has been a regular face on the front rows of major shows such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton.<\/p>\n But her appearance at Louis Vuitton\u2019s spring-summer show in their new store in the Place Vendome will be her last.<\/p>\n The 66-year-old, who sat in the front row next to LVMH\u2019s Bernard and Delphine Arnault, and spoke to the AP on her passion for fashion and her sadness to bid farewell to the spectacular Paris shows.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I will definitely miss (the Paris shows). For sure,\u201d she said, wearing a black Vuitton T-shirt with silver zigzags.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful being in Paris and being at these shows and the beauty and the style. I\u2019m lucky,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s such an important industry here, but it\u2019s an important industry back in the U.S. too. It\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s creative \u2013 but we really can\u2019t forget it\u2019s a job creator on both sides of the Atlantic and I\u2019m hugely supportive of this industry. I\u2019ve also seen what fashion can to revitalize a city and give a city life,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The ambassador, the second woman to serve in this position after Pamela Harriman (1993-1997) and will leave her post following November\u2019s U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n Moncler Gamme Rouge<\/strong><\/p>\n A barren desert and rugged boulders provided a sort of fashion assault-course for Moncler Gamme Rouge\u2019s battle-tested models in the French military-inspired Wednesday show.<\/p>\n Hybrids of the hard, round shiny-tipped hats worn by the French Foreign Legion were the opener.<\/p>\n And in case there was any doubt about the French army theme, designer Giambattista Valli began to use sashes with the French tricolour flag across round-collar tops \u2013 gwith the famed red, white and blue colour combination repeated on Velcro straps on sneakers.<\/p>\n Straps, for perhaps a parachute, structured a \u201860s-style, sporty mini-dress in stone.<\/p>\n And even when the signature flowers finally appeared (Valli famously loves his blooms), even then, they were imagined as a print on an X-shaped dress that evoked the military through its stiffness and shoulder epaulettes.<\/p>\n It was an interesting and focused display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PARIS \u2013 The Louis Vuitton red carpet was rolled out at the historic Place Vendome on Wednesday for a much-needed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10904,2364,10903],"class_list":["post-81851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion-and-beauty","tag-louis-vuitton","tag-paris","tag-vuitton","mauthors-thomas-adamson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}