What To Expect From SS19 Paris Fashion Week The hottest appointment among all the FW
Dior, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Dries Van Noten, Maison Margiela, Givenchy, Balenciaga ... there's no point in denying it: Paris is the real capital of international fashion, at least according to the biggest brands that choose PFW to present their collections. From September 24th to October 2nd, all these titans of style will challenge each other, putting on every time more magical and spectacular shows, more and more like a happening or an artistic performance rather than a mere series of dresses.
To get ready to the Parisian Fashion Week, nss has prepared a special guide to all the events you can't miss. Phones in your hands, the PFW has officially started.
From Beauty to the Catwalk
Among the most anticipated events of this season, the most democratic is the L'Oréal Paris show which, on Sunday, September 30th , in front of 200,000 spectators, not only celebrities but, above all, ordinary people, organizes a défilé en plein air. The beauty colossus has set up a 60-meter-long floating walkway on the Seine, on which Elle Fanning, Eva Longoria, Doutzen Kroes and the other testimonials of the brand will walk, wearing important pieces by Elie Saab, Giambattista Valli, Pierre Hardy or Sonia Rykiel.
The biggest
As for the real designers, the spotlight is on the debut of Hedi Slimane for Celine and on the new collection by Alessandro Michele for Gucci. Fashionistas are in fibrillation to see the first show, co-ed, of the Italian-Tunisian designer who, just arrived to replace the minimalist icon Phoebe Philo, has already implemented a small re-branding, eliminating the accent from "Celine" , prompting many to ask what other revolutions will be implemented. To find out, you have to wait for Friday, September 28th, at 8:30 pm, when Slimane will unveil his projects in "Show location in Paris", as he called the Hotel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement.
This PFW is, in a certain way, a debut also for Alessandro Michele who, on September 24th at 7.30 pm, will hold the new Gucci fashion show in the Ville Lumiere, thus concluding a tribute to France in three parts, started in January with the pre-fall campaing that recalles students protests in May 1968, followed in May by the Cruise 2019 show in Arles. The last chapter of this French adventure will take place inside the historic Théatre Le Palace, a special place in Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre 8 that mixes vintage and underground culture, where in the period around the Nouvelle Vague, between gallons of champagne and masked party, were mixed fashion, luxury and art. Will the Gucci SS19 collection reflect the same mood? We'll see.
