About this episode

The episode discusses the highlights and emotional moments from Paris Couture Week, focusing on collections from various designers.

This week, Chloe Malle sat down with Vogue France's Claire Thomson-Jonville and Vogue Runway's chief critic Sarah Mower straight from the Balenciaga show at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris to unpack the emotional highs of Couture Week's opening days. The trio's biggest topic was Pierpaolo Piccioli's first couture outing for the house, a collection they agreed felt unmistakably like his own after two seasons of ready-to-wear spent reconciling his sensibility with Demna's legacy. Under a blazing midday sun, with Cynthia Erivo, Naomi Watts, and Teyana Taylor among those fanning themselves in the front row, Piccioli sent out feather-heavy, richly colored looks. The conversation then rewound to Monday's openers, starting with Daniel Roseberry's Schiaparelli show, where a chrome runway and body-conscious, skin-like silicone pieces reflected an unusually experimental research process: rather than his usual research trip, Roseberry said he'd spent time at a company that manufactures silicone baby dolls. From there, talk turned to Jonathan Anderson's second couture collection for Dior, which the panel read as a loosening of the house's codes, with knotted, sculptural…

People in this episode

Host: Chloe Malle

Guests: Claire Thomson-Jonville, Sarah Mower

Topics covered

• Paris Couture Week
• Fashion Shows
• Couture Collections
• Designers
• Fashion Critique

Keywords

• Couture Week
• Chanel
• Dior
• Balenciaga
• Fashion Critique
• Designers
• Fashion Shows

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli

Places: Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

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