Paris Fashion Week: Coronavirus kept fashion editors away, but for Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Miu Miu, the show went on
Coronavirus fear is high – guests who attended the runway show wore CC-branded face masks, but it didn’t stop Lupita Nyong’o and Alicia Vikander from attending
Louis Vuitton staged a dazzling cinematic fashion production to cap Paris Fashion Week on March 3, with a wall of around 200 human figures dressed in fashions that spanned human history.
Chanel staged a comparatively low-key affair, as the coronavirus outbreak kept many of the regular VIPs and fashion editors away. Some guests who made it wore CC-branded face masks, while others watched the Parisian stalwart’s display streamed online.
Restraint was also evoked in Chanel designer Virginie Viard’s designs: a marked departure from her showman predecessor and mentor, the late Karl Lagerfeld. Simplicity was the Chanel “mot du jour” – from the set of tiered white steps to the pared-down aesthetic of monochrome.
Here are some highlights on the last day for autumn/winter 2020 ready-to-wear.
Louis Vuitton’s wall of history
Elizabethan ruffs glistened in the lights alongside medieval two-point hats, pantaloons, exaggerated wigs and crinolines at Louis Vuitton’s fall collection in Paris.
Guests marvelled, as the show began inside the Louvre’s Cour Carree, to reveal a “wall” full of 200 people dressed in glimmering historic costumes, ranging from the 15th century to the 1950s.