PARIS, July 6 — The first-ever online Paris fashion week clicks off today with the world of glitzy runway shows thrown into an existential crisis by the coronavirus. Paris haute couture and men’s fashion weeks have been rolled into one, with labels making films to showcase their clothes instead...
French fashion designer Julien Fournie poses with his Czech model Michaela Tomanova during the shooting of a film designed in place of the fashion show, June 30, 2020. — AFP pic
The virus has not just made the traditional catwalk format — where a few hundred globetrotters are crammed into an overlit, overheated room and pummelled with thumping music — temporarily untenable on health grounds. Gucci’s flamboyant creator Alessandro Michele has slashed his shows from five to two a year while Saint Laurent is pulling out of Paris women’s fashion week later this year.
In a typically classy offering shot by French theatre director Cyril Teste, the crew and technicians took starring roles along with the models. The Italian director Matteo Garrone, who took the glamour out of gangster life in “Gomorrah” and “Dogman”, may not seem the obvious candidate to make a film about dreamy handmade dresses that can take thousands of hours of painstaking work.
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