There are real models on real catwalks again: After the Corona break, Parisian haute couture is taking off.
Paris – The Paris Haute Couture shows saw real shows for the first time. Chanel celebrated this with a magnificent collection and rebellious hairstyles, Dior with an homage to fine fabrics.
The French fashion house Chanel did not show its first show after an 18-month break on Tuesday, as usual, in the famous Grand Palais, which is currently under renovation, but in the newly renovated Musée Galliera – there is currently an exhibition about the fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel. After many purely digital events, the industry was looking forward to a real show. In the end, however, only very few were able to enjoy them, as the quotas were considerably limited due to the ongoing restrictions.
The autumn-winter collection by Chanel creative director Virginie Viard impressed above all with color accents and a mixture of retro and modern. The typical tweed costumes could be seen with red and white checked patterns or elaborate floral embroidery, the models also wore rebellious braided hairstyles reminiscent of mohawks.
The Christian Dior fashion house also put on a real show at the usual location in the garden of the Rodin Museum. Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri commissioned the French artist Eva Jospin to design the set, who created a huge, woven fresco that covered the entire walls around the catwalk. In keeping with this and inspired by the book “Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle” by Clare Hunter, Chiuri concentrated this time primarily on fabrics.
There was an amazing amount of tweed to see, heavy coats and long wool skirts, but also fine silk fabrics with floral prints. For the normal haute couture customer who is looking for more princess-like evening dresses, there was less choice this time. As long as there are still hardly any events at which you can wear such robes, looks that are suitable for everyday use seem to have priority. dpa
