After divorce heartache, it’s looking more rosy for Sophie
HEAD to toe in bubblegum pink, Sophie Turner stepped out in a Louis Vuitton trouser suit at the designer’s Cruise 202 collection in Barcelona last night – after breaking her silence about her messy divorce from pop star Joe Jonas.
The 28-year-old Game of Thrones actress completed the look with silver heels, red belt and a tiny white handbag. Symbolic, perhaps, of the fact she has no need to carry excess baggage, after unburdening herself about the split in a cover interview for the latest issue of Vogue?
While brand ambassadors Zendaya and Emma Stone were no-shows, other guests including the actresses Ana de Armas, Phoebe Dynevor, Jennifer Connelly, and the pop group Haim, took their front row seats in Barcelona’s Park Guell, the Gaudi-designed UNESCO World Heritage site that’s one of Spain’s most popular tourist attractions. There were only a
‘No need to carry excess baggage’
handful of fashion VIPs issued with golden tickets for Vuitton’s Cruise show — the latest from designer Nicolas Ghesquiere. The Gary Numan soundtrack was the first giveaway that there was an Eighties feel to the collection. The cropped matador jackets, sash belts, power shoulders and puffball skirts were the second.
The show opened with a section of pale beige collarless suits worn with wide-brimmed hats at a jaunty angle, before segueing into a tribute to the New Romantics. Likely candidates to have graced Ghesquiere’s moodboard include the singers Sade, Grace Jones and Adam Ant, with a soupcon of Eighties-era Lady Diana thrown in. There were early
Vivienne Westwood references in the pirate trousers, worn either with hologram booties or fringed leather shoes that looked strange on the catwalk, but were imbued with just the right kind of weirdness to ensure that they go viral on TikTok and Instagram. With Louis Vuitton being the biggest cash cow of the Style queens: Phoebe Dynevor, Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas – all in Louis Vuitton biggest luxury goods conglomerate owned by the richest man in the world – French billionaire Bernard Arnault – it’s fair to say there was little expense spared.
But not everyone was impressed. Hours before the show, local residents staged an angry protest, criticising the event for ‘privatising public space’, restricting residents’ parking for three days during the set’s construction, as well as damaging some steps. Louis Vuitton has assured locals that it will repair all damage caused.
The show is one of several events organised by Louis Vuitton to mark the 37th America’s Cup, which is being held in Barcelona this year, and for which it is the main sponsor.