Style, celebrity and sport combine for fashion’s unofficial Olympic launch – and a reinvention of a potent brand
Paris has a lot going on right now. With one week to go before the first round of voting in elections that could radically redraw French politics, the country is a tinderbox. Pre-Olympic nerves are frayed; high water levels on the Seine after weeks of heavy rain have forced the postponement of a rehearsal for the ambitious opening ceremony, due to be conducted on barges sailing through the city. Football fans are on tenterhooks on the eve of a crucial Euro 2024 encounter with Poland.
But Paris is never too busy for a fashion show. Especially one with supermodels Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner on horseback, Bad Bunny rapping, Sabrina Carpenter channelling Brigitte Bardot and Katy Perry in a leather harness, US actor Jeremy Pope dancing to Eartha Kitt, and iconic French ex-footballers Djibril Cissé, Blaise Matuidi and Emmanuel Petit taking a lap of honour under a photogenic midsummer sunset.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/24/models-on-horseback-and-footballers-on-the-catwalk-vogue-worlds-salute-to-paris
Author : Jess Cartner-Morley
Publish date : 2024-06-24 18:17:30
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