So much for spotting celebrities, the Saint Laurent show at Paris Fashion Week was so dimly lit that I had to fumble my way to my seat.
The light from the camera flash illuminated the section where Blackpink Rosé was sitting. Kate Moss tried to introduce her to Charlotte Rampling. “You walk around with quite an entourage,” the veteran British actress said, admiring the K-pop star.
Diane Kruger returned as a guest after appearing on Ami’s show last month. The German-born actress started out as a model, but these days she prefers to stay on the sidelines.
“It’s better for my ego,” she quipped. “Everyone is about a head and a half taller than you and probably half your age. It was tough.”
Her latest project also turned out to be quite dark. She is set to star in David Cronenberg’s Shrouds. The film tells the story of a grieving widow who creates a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
Krueger, who plays three roles: the main character’s wife, his wife’s sister, and a third character who is the Avatar, said, “This movie is based on his personal life, his wife’s death.” This film is expected to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
“It was a little scary for me, because I obviously knew how much it meant to him. So just interacting with him, I didn’t know how much to ask or if I should ask. I wasn’t sure if it was there,” she recalled. “He’s just a very introverted director and not a very sociable person.”
Philippines Leroy-Beaulieu attended Saint Laurent’s fall 2024 ready-to-wear show.
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Leroy-Beaulieu, who is Filipino, posed on a leather sofa as VIP guests included fellow Emily in Paris stars Lily Collins, Zoe Kravitz, Yara Shahidi and Linda Evangelista. After bathing in the light of the waiting room, he plunged into the darkness.
Emily in Paris Season 4 only recently resumed filming after filming was delayed due to the writers’ and actors’ strike. As a result, the setting was set in winter, with rain falling in the French capital.
“It was even more interesting to work on winter fashion,” said Leroy-Beaulieu, who plays arch Parisienne Sylvie Grateau. “So gray weather and rain is okay.”
She wore an ankle-grazing brown leather coat designed by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello. “I think it makes us feel powerful and at the same time a little ‘awkward’, as the French would call it, taking up space,” she said of her bulky shoulder pads.
The French actress paid tribute to another king of power dressing, Claude Montana, who passed away last week at the age of 76. “Claude Montana was a friend of my mother’s and we were very saddened by his death. He was an incredible man for women and contributed so much to women’s liberation,” she enthused. .
Vaccarello’s fall collection offers a little less protection. The filmy look on the runway leaves no room for imagination. The guests in the front row were divided into his two camps. There are those who don’t care about camera flashes and embrace a transparent style, and those who choose to cover up. Olivia Wilde’s appearance posing outdoors in her backless sheer black vest suggested the cold was just a mindset.
