The relaxed mood we’ve been seeing in this week continued in Paris Fashion Week’s closing act. On the final day of shows, Chanel artistic director of womenswear Virginie Viard drew inspiration from the clean lined geometry of Villa Noailles, a modernist summer home in the hills overlooking Hyères built by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1923, while Miu Miu creative director Miuccia Prada took us on a riotously fun romp through tropes of early 2000s style.
The Front Row:
Paris Fashion Week is more fun with friends. On the final day of the spring/summer 2024 collections, two Hollywood duos — Penelope Cruz and Riley Keough and Camila Morrone and Brie Larson — posed together at Chanel in their bouclé best. (Morrone and Cruz also got a smiley shot ensemble.)
Later in the day at Miu Miu, sisters Paris Hilton and Nicky Rothschild made another PFW appearance, sporting preppy ensembles complete with hair bands and ladylike top-handle bags. Mia Goth and Emma Corrin caught up on the FROW, and Sydney Sweeney even brought her lookalike baby cousin, Lucille Hancock, to the show. We’d like Hancock’s perfect LBD in our size, please.
The Casting:
Gigi Hadid made her first PFW appearance on Tuesday, walking both Chanel and Miu Miu. Save the best for last, they say. She was joined at Chanel by Vittoria Cerreti, Jill Kortleve, Liu Wen, and Quannah Chasinghorse.
At Miu Miu, Hadid was part of what the brand termed a ‘character cast’ — the characters including actors Troy Sivan, Mame Bineta Sane, and Cailee Spaeny who closed the show. And at Torishéju — the PFW debut of British Nigerian-Brazilian designer Torishéju Dumi — Naomi Campbell opened.
The New Shapes:
There was a new lightness to Chanel’s classic tailoring offering, which included unstructured suits without epaulettes or lining and tie-front dressing gown shapes in multicoloured, black, and pink tweed. In a similar vein, Torishéju blended the easy elegance of Nigerian lappa wrap garments with the structured look of Western tailoring.
Shrunken polos, Speedos, board shorts, bandeau tops, ultra low-rise denim, and elegant brocade dresses were just some of the disparate elements that comprised the madcap layering in Miuccia Prada’s riotously fun Miu Miu collection. The hero style was a skirt so abbreviated that it flared out like a ballerina’s tutu, worn with matching briefs — call it a Miu-tu. It perfectly combined last season’s no-trousers look with the microminis from SS23.
