Giambattista Valli × H&M’s Roman spectacular: a homecoming at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Valerio Mezzanotti; Nowfashion On Thursday, Giambattista Valli × H&M held a catwalk show at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Roma, Valli’s home town, and a fitting setting for the opulent collection. Valli, who left for Paris at a young age, saw the setting as coming full circle, and says that his home town had shaped […]
Kendall Jenner, H. E. R., Chiara Ferragni, Li Yuchun lead Giambattista Valli × H&M campaign
Mert and Marcus/H&M While the look book for the Giambattista Valli × H&M collection features a line-up of professional models, the campaign has bigger names—already previewed in part by the celebrities who wore the pre-drop collection at AmFAR at Cannes earlier this year: Kendall Jenner, H. E. R., Chiara Ferragni, Clara 3000, Luka Isaac, Li […]
Andreas Rentz/AmFAR Doing a big announcement when the world’s press already happens to be there is a pretty smart move, and H&M has done just that—revealing at the AmFAR gala at the Festival de Cannes this year that its next designer collaboration, launching November 7, is with Giambattista Valli. Helping Valli and H&M’s creative […]
Spotted at the Festival de Cannes première of Yomeddine, a comedy from first-time Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky, were Irina Shayk (in Twinset), Julianne Moore (in Yves Saint Laurent, with jewellery by Chopard), Li Yuchun (李宇春) (in an unusual striped wraparound number), and Louise Bourgoin (in Giambattista Valli Couture), the latter trio representing L’Oréal Paris […]
Festival de Cannes day 1: Romee Strijd, Isabelle Adjani and Li Yuchun hit the red carpet
Gisela Schober; Stephane Cardinale/Corbis; Flavien Prioreau The 71st Cannes Film Festival has kicked off, with the opening ceremony and the première of Asghar Farhadi’s Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows), starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. Spotted on the red carpet on day one was Dutch model and Victoria’s Secret Angel Romee Strijd, resplendent in […]
Pascal le Segretain; Kristy Sparow L’Oréal Paris has the budget for spectacle, and it literally stopped traffic with its latest newsmaker on Sunday: a fashion and beauty runway show right in the middle of the Champs-Élysées, where its ambassadors Alexina Graham, Barbara Palvin, Bianca Balti, Cheryl Cole, Doutzen Krœs, Jane Fonda, Dame Helen Mirren, Irina […]
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rihanna among the most glamorous at Festival de Cannes, day three
Venturelli; Pascal Le Segretain; Andreas Rentz; courtesy Dior Aishwarya Rai Bachchan always causes a stir when she heads to the Festival de Cannes, both as a L’Oréal Paris spokeswoman and as an actress in her own right. This year, her powder blue ballroom gown, by Filipino designer Michael Cinco, was covered with beads and featured […]
Tristan Fewings; Neilson Barnard; Gisela Schober; top photo: Venturelli The Festival de Cannes—the Cannes Film Festival—celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, with Deepika Padukone and Bella Hadid getting plenty of attention as they walked the red carpet on day one. The first film to première at the Palais des Festivals was Arnaud Desplechin’s Les […]
Sonam Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Araya A. Hargate, Chloë Sevigny, Heike Makatsch at Cannes’ day 5
Tristan Fewings, Venturelli Sometimes, you can find style at the Festival de Cannes away from the red carpet, and Chloë Sevigny looked fashionable with her Chanel black and silver resin bag from its Paris in Rome 2015–16 collection. But as usual the real action was on the red carpet where we saw sumptuous gowns and […]
Venturelli, Andreas Rentz, L’Oréal Paris Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wore an extravagant golden Elie Saab gown for the fourth day at the Festival de Cannes, attending the première of The BFG (short for Big Friendly Giant), based on the Roald Dahl book, and directed for Disney by Steven Spielberg. Rai Bachchan, easily one of the […]
