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6 days ago
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Penélope Cruz Highlights Chanel's Textured Tailoring at the Brand's Fall 2025 Couture Show in Paris
An ambassador for Chanel since 2018, Penélope Cruz attended the fashion house's fall 2025 couture collection show during Paris Couture Week on Tuesday, wearing a look from the brand. The Oscar-winning actress donned a Chanel jacket, featuring a tailored silhouette with allover shimmering details intricately woven into the fabric. Cruz's outfit also included a black jacket with off-white trim and pearl detailing, along with sinuous cuffs and subtle pinstripe lines of sparkling details. The actress carried a Chanel quilted bag and wore a pair of black heels to complete her ensemble. More from WWD Hailee Steinfeld Embraces Bold Cutouts and Dramatic Bows in Sheer Dress for Tamara Ralph Fall 2025 Couture Show in Paris Hailee Steinfeld Gives Classic Hollywood an Edge in Dior Pumps at Tamara Ralph's Fall 2025 Couture Show Penélope Cruz Holds Court in Purple Chanel, Diane Kruger Goes Ethereal in Alberta Ferretti and More at Les Arts Décoratifs Ball The actress' shimmering black suit, part of Chanel's cruise 2026 collection, made its runway debut last April. The Villa d'Este hotel in Italy served as the backdrop for the collection's showcase, featuring designs that paid homage to the Romy Schneider wearing Gabrielle Chanel designs in his 1962 movie 'Boccaccio 70,' per Luisa Zargani's WWD review of the collection. Highlights from the collection included 'tweed miniskirts in a beautiful wisteria hue that matched the blooms on the terrace, for example, and short taffeta dresses in a peach or pink color with flounces and ruffles — although at times the frilly effect could have been toned down a bit,' Zargani added. The collection marked a turning point for the French luxury fashion house. Matthieu Blazy, who spent much of his formative years at Bottega Veneta, was named Chanel's creative director in December 2024. The designer's first collection for the label will be featured in October. As of last April, the designer is reportedly assembling his team. Ahead of the fall 2025 couture show, guests from Sofia Coppola to Cruz, Keira Knightley and more kicked off Paris Couture Week with the Bal d'Été at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on Sunday in Paris. Cruz also wore a Chanel selection from the label's spring 2025 couture collection to the fete. View Gallery Launch Gallery: Chanel Fall 2025 Couture Best of WWD A Look Back at Fourth of July Celebrations at the White House Princess Diana's Birthday Looks Through the Years: Her Sleek Black Jacques Azagury Dress, Vibrant Colors and More Lauren Sánchez's Fashion Evolution Through the Years: From Her Days as TV News Anchor to Today
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07-07-2025
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Iris Van Herpen Fall 2025 Couture: Dresses Teeming With Life
Iris Van Herpen has taken her haute couture R&D to another astonishing frontier, creating a 'living look' incorporating 125 million bioluminescent algae that she said require eight hours of rest, eight hours of light — and a calm, cool environment in order to thrive. Sounds a lot like us, huh? More from WWD Cardi B Embraces Sculptural Shoulders and Fringe Pearls for Schiaparelli Fall 2025 Couture Show in Paris Dua Lipa Goes Avant-garde in Keyhole Cutout Dress for Schiaparelli's Fall 2025 Couture Show in Paris Sofia Coppola was Thinking Pink for Les Arts Décoratifs Ball 'When it's happy, it responds to the movement of the person who's wearing it,' Van Herpen told a visitor, his jaw on the floor, during a preview of her fall 2025 show, which combined light sculptures, stirring music, gossamer fabrics and choreography to pack an emotional punch akin to David Attenborough's new ocean film — but with the visual poetry unique to the Dutch designer. A million questions occur about the algae dress, such as, 'How long will it live?' 'We don't know. No one knows. It's one big pioneering process,' Van Herpen said. 'But I don't think this will be possible to deliver to a client yet. It's more of a museum piece because it really needs to be taken care of every day.' Van Herpen fished out a photo on her phone of the squishy garment housed in its steel and glass temperature-controlled chamber, mist accumulating at the bottom. It's as strangely beautiful as it is mysterious, achieved thanks to a collaboration with engineer and 'bio designer' Chris Bellamy, who found a way to keep the algae alive in a nutrient gel. Each of Van Herpen's 18 looks felt like an ecosystem unto itself: here a kinetic dress in collaboration with artist Casey Curran, undulating like some alien skeleton; there Japanese 'air' fabric suspended on wires and drifting like a jellyfish in invisible currents, or a cutting-edge 'brewed protein' material from Spiber, somehow resembling the suckers of an octopus — or a few cans of Pringles — spilled over a fishtail dress. The designer combined all that science with haute artistry, also taking inspiration from Loïe Fuller, a pioneer of modern dance, and equipping a performer with winged appendages that interacted with the laser beams of Nick Verstand in mesmerizing ways. Van Herpen called that show opener a metaphor for 'how we have drained the life out of our oceans.' Leaving no senses unengaged, she also conscripted perfumer Francis Kurkdjian to develop a bespoke fragrance dispersed like a wave during the show. Here were vaporous dresses that behaved in the atmosphere of the Élysée Montmartre music hall like normal fabric might submerged in Europe's deepest pool — Van Herpen's been there, done that for her spring 2023 couture collection — and a stiffer one that whorled upwards around a model, like egg whites caught in a twister. Van Herpen's wondrous dressmaking defies gravity, provokes deep thoughts about our planet — and lights up couture week like very, very happy algae. Launch Gallery: Iris Van Herpen Fall 2025 Couture Best of WWD Windowsen RTW Spring 2022 Louis Shengtao Chen RTW Spring 2022 Vegan Fashion Week Returns to L.A. With Nous Etudions, Vegan Tiger on the Runway
