the cat called the occasion – Libération

2024-07-27 07:37:32

Stars and athletes gave Victor Weinsanto, Jeanne Friot and Olivier Bériot, but above all LVMH, a golden show on mondiovision on Friday evening.

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a red carpet made of cool paving stones and Art Nouveau arches. From the banks of the Seine to the footbridge of Debilly, the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, Friday July 26, is the scene of a spectacular and cultural spectacle. Stars and athletes gave Victor Weinsanto, Jeanne Friot and Olivier Bériot, but above all LVMH, a golden show on international television.

The three biggest stars of the party wore Dior, a brand of LVMH, the “Premium” partner of the Games. Thus Céline Dion made her grand return in a glittering dress with thousands of pearls and more than 500 meters of pearls made on her body. Before this show on the Eiffel Tower, Lady Gaga started the evening as well My precious thing in a cabaret scene, dressed in a black strapless leotard enhanced with a voluptuous black and powder pink train “we gather when the birds fly”, said fashion house. We are inside “Sustainable Games” or we don’t.

Feathers but frozen and gold, popstar Aya Nakamura shines, dressed all in gold, from her eyelids to the tall Spartans reminiscent of ancient legends, in the middle of her dancers also have feathers and pants bright gold. One flag in the hand, the other around the body: the eight-meter tricolor peplum dress worn by mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel during her performance The Marseillaise, is also a Dior creation, recreated by Maria Grazia Chiuri, its artistic director. Another brand at the party: Louis Vuitton, from the LVMH group, seen on the red and black jacket of rapper Rim’K.

Sometime in the evening, a handful of queens invited the audience to a real fashion show that showcased the new guard of national designers. The model Farida Khelfa, the muse of Jean Paul Gaultier and Alaïa in the 80s, went between the pools of rain on the catwalk covered with a red carpet, crossing the Seine for the world of the night.

To the sound of DJ Barbara Butch, the LGBT icon, the positive creations of Victor Weinsanto and Jeanne Friot are on display for the world to see. The latter is also the origin of the silver cape and hood worn by the rider carrying the Olympic flag to the Trocadéro.

Philippe Katerine dressed as Dionysus (the god of celebration in Greek mythology), painted blue and covered with glitter, decorated with a garland of fake fruits closed this ritual. This unique creation that has traveled the world through the fascinating social networks has signed Olivier Bériot, cinematographer and clothing designer, who works mainly on the Netflix series Lupine, with international success, and he also designed clothes for revolutionaries or a decapitated Marie-Antoinette.

Under the transparent plastic rain caps of the French sportsmen, LVMH again, with navy blue suits with collar grading towards red, white shirts and moccasins by Berluti. In front of them, the Italians wore Emporio Armani, the Americans called Ralph Lauren.