A few nights ago in Paris, Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour sat down to a dinner with the President and First Lady of France. Also in attendance were many of the designers who show and base their business in the City of Light. It was Emmanuel Macron’s personal gesture of open arms to the fashion industry and a sign that the community of creatives in Paris is thriving. The evening was a strong example of the feeling of inclusion that radiated through the runways during Paris Fashion Week. As Wintour points out, there are more female design heads than ever this season, including Clare Waight Keller at Givenchy and Natacha Ramsay-Levi at Chloé. It’s no longer “just a group of token women designers,” Wintour states. Meanwhile, messages of female empowerment were seen everywhere from the collections of newcomer Marine Serre to Christian Dior, where Maria Grazia Chiuri was influenced by the the Paris student uprising of 1968. It was all very “joyous,” says Wintour.
Elsewhere, Wintour cheered the “chic tailoring” from Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga and stellar silver looks at Paco Rabanne. Karl Lagerfeld put on a spectacular display of fashion and foliage at Chanel, in a show titled “leave me alone.” A wink at the #MeToo movement? Perhaps, but there was also a romanticism and dreaminess to the clothes, not to mention pretty terrific double-C puffers. Paris Fashion Week concluded with a spaceship in the middle of the Louvre for Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton show. It felt like an optimistic note to end on and lift us off for a new world where all are welcome.
Here, Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour discusses the many highlights of Paris Fashion Week.
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