Published on January 23, 2025 at 10:33. / Modified on January 23, 2025 at 2:04 p.m.
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The lace of our glamorous mythologies as you have rarely approached it. You are at the heart of a haute couture workshop and Tear, the latest creation by Caroline Guiela Nguyen, this French artist whose each show honors – and with what passion – the wounded in the shadows. At the Odéon Theater in Paris until February 6, before the Comédie de Genève next season, she unfolds the story of an English royal princess’s dress, eight months of sacrifice, tension and tearing for three hours captivating representation.
You can feel the brilliance of this coming masterpiece with your eyes, on its pattern. Half a dozen tailors and seamstresses are busy, under the benevolent authority of Marion, mother of a teenager, wife of a man who happens to be her subordinate – and whose perversity and unhealthy violence we will discover. The Beliana house and its star designer, the very hysterical Alexander, were chosen to dress the bride of the Kingdom of England. A coronation in itself. And an infernal race against time: eight months to give birth to a prodigy, between Bombay where a craftsman embroiders the train, Alençon where a famous veil is being restored – which really exists – and Paris where each movement of needle is a matter of state.
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