Place Vendôme was in turmoil this Sunday June 23, 2024 in Paris due to the Vogue World fashion show on the sidelines of the Fashion Week ! The stars were present during the photocall of the event which was notably marked by performances by Aya Nakamura and Bad Bunny. Yesterday we could meet in the capital the actress Diane Kruger dressed by Nina Ricci with a veil, a top and lace tights, on the arm of her lover, the star of Walking Dead and father of her daughter Nova, Norman Reedus. A look that echoed the it-girl and daughter of François-Henri Pinault and his ex-wife Dorothée Lepère, Mathilde, also in very sexy black lace by Yves Saint Laurent!
A must at fashion events, Lena Mahfouf / Situations had also focused on the transparency of Yves Saint Laurent but in white, then heading off with a big smile for the after party which took place at the Maxim’s restaurant, like Gigi Hadid and Katy Perry.
Vogue mania has seduced the powerful couple formed by Antoine Arnault and Natalia Vodianova, Jared Leto all in boxers and transparency, daring Cara Delevingne in Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Pokora aka Christina Milian and her friend Eva Longoria or even the tennis figure Maria Sharapova and those of fashion: Simon Porte Jacquemus, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Olivier Rousteing or even the very rare John Galliano. This long list of personalities applauded Vogue’s impressive show.
The bar was set high one month before the Paris Olympic Games and the Vogue World event lined up on Sunday evening in Paris everything that matters in Parisian fashion and sport, for a giga show, opened by Aya Nakamura – tipped for the opening of the Olympic Games – in the form of a declaration of love to France.
“We are here to celebrate the wonders of French fashion. I am very grateful for the support from everyone here in France and from the fashion world, and from the mayor“, declared to AFP, a few minutes before the show, the organizer of the event, Anna Wintour.
Raising her unfailing dark glasses towards the column of Place Vendôme, the popess of fashion, dressed in a multi-colored sequined ensemble, said she was grateful “that it wasn’t raining” on the square, which had been privatized for the occasion. The mayor of Paris, who supported this ambitious project, especially in the midst of pre-Olympic chaos, released an enthusiastic “we did it !” “The challenge was to honor the great houses and dedicate this evening to all the creators with a parade“, explained Anne Hidalgo to AFP.
In front of the Ritz, the emblematic palace of the City of Lights where Anna Wintour is a regular, there is an air of reunion. And suddenly Aya Nakamura appears, in a tight-fitting brown ruffled dress from the latest Jean Paul Gaultier couture collection, escorted by a squad of Parisian waiters, carrying trays and tails. The R’n’B star makes the square in the center of Paris vibrate with a symphony orchestra, with his title Fly and a flow worthy of Edith Piaf.
The performance, which puts part of the front row in tears, in an undecided political context in France, sounds like a response to the controversy launched by the far right against the Franco-Malian singer around her probable performance during the ceremony. The opening of the Paris Olympics on July 26.
Vogue World: a ballet for ten decades of “fashion and sport”
For almost an hour, like a perfectly timed ballet of 500 models, dancers and athletes burst onto the square, leaping, surging and twirling in all directions for a painting in ten parts. For ten decades of “fashion and sport”. 1930s: cyclists from the French national team spin while five Chanel dresses are presented – three are reissues of pieces from Gabrielle Chanel’s 1924 collection, which actually had its sequel in the year exactly there, at the Ritz. 1950s, horse riding with beautiful horses dressed in Hermès trotting at the feet of Delphine Arnault in a tribute to Dior looks, 1960s fencing and the Paco Rabanne years, 1990s and the madness of the World Cup with Djibril Cissé, Blaise Matuidi and Emmanuel Petit as models and the 2000s for tennis with the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, as shock models.
The show ends with the arrival of Marie-José Pérec in a huge dress with a tricolor train. The three-time Olympic athletics champion, who has just carried the flame across the Atlantic, dances around the column. Like a link between these two ceremonies.
Vogue World has committed to making a significant donation from a portion of the proceeds and paying one million euros to Secours populaire.
The first edition of this event, a sort of imagined traveling Met Gala, took place in 2022 in New York then in 2023 in London.
