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Plunged into darkness, the audience inside the
Louvre's Court Carree gasped as the curtain rose to reveal a
terraced backdrop with hundreds of singers dressed in period
costumes from the 15th century to the 1950s.
The first models strutted down the catwalk in buffed-up
petticoats and voluminous, multicolored jackets, in a collection
designer Nicolas Ghesquiere called "Collisions of Time".
In front of an audience that included the A-list actresses Léa
Seydoux, Alicia Vikander and Florence Pugh, models also wore
sport-inspired outfits styled on bomber jackets, mechanic
overalls and embroidered bullfighter's boleros.
"This collection is the anti-total-look," Gesquiere said in the
show notes. "Functional clothing can be ceremonial dress and
vice versa. I want it to be open, energetic and spontaneous."
Louis Vuitton, the flagship brand of the world's biggest luxury
group LVMH, closed the Paris Fashion Week. This catwalk season
has been disrupted by the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak
which kept Chinese buyers, journalists and socialites from
European fashion events.
French labels Agnes b. and A.P.C had to cancel their
presentation in Paris while in Milan, Giorgio Armani held its
show behind closed doors.
Prada and Gucci have already postponed their upcoming cruise
2021 show, initially planned in May, due to the coronavirus
outbreak.
(Reporting Laetitia Volga in Washington; Editing by Richard
Lough and Jonathan Oatis)
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