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LOUIS VUITTON Unveiled under grand
chandeliers, the runway is staged in the Passage Richelieu (located between Rue de Rivoli and the Louvre Museum), where founder Louis Vuitton used to traverse to reach the apartments of Empress
Eugénie. He was the exclusive trunk-maker and packer for the wife
of Napoleon III.
GUCCI
With his mother in mind (she worked in Rome’s famed Cinecittà Studios, which piqued Alessandro Michele's interest in the glamour and imagination of cinema), the creative director of Gucci turns the iconic Walk of Fame along Los Angeles’ Hollywood Boulevard into a runway.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Chilean architect Smiljan Radic perches a transparent cloud-shaped bubble dome on a rooftop carpark in Tobacco Dock to offer the audience a panoramic view of London.
DIOR
In a playful tribute to Italian painter Anna Paparatti, Dior's board game show set revisits her emblematic artwork from the ’60s in a colossal collage of hand-painted reproductions. Presented in a structure built over a fountain in Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, the dynamic set evokes the Piper Club
– a famous nightspot at the forefront of Rome’s artistic scene in the ’60s.
MIU MIU Based on her exploration of the intimate relationships mediated through the camera, New York-based Moroccan artist
Meriem Bennani’s binocularshaped screens projecting her films disrupt the interiors of the
Palais d’Iéna, a government monument in Paris. Set designer
AMO conceives a runway that snakes through the centre of the space, seating guests on Eames office chairs as a nod to the
venue’s heritage.
VALENTINO
To keep the maison contemporary, its creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli embraces the ideas of authenticity, everyday life, imperfection and its liveliness. The historic covered market Carreau du Temple is the starting point of the runway that extends into the streets of Paris.
CHANEL
Staged on a raised runway at the Grand
Palais Éphémère in Paris, complete with a parade of models and surrounded by photographers clicking away, this show channels the emotionally charged glamour of fashion shows in the ’80s.