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The Guardian
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Saint Laurent closes Paris fashion week with bold statement of intent
Saint Laurent has cross-generational cool. On the last night of Paris fashion week, Kate Moss sat next to Catherine Deneuve, both in black tailoring, sheer blouses and high heels. Pedro Almodóvar and Rossy de Palma smiled for the cameras, while Hailey Bieber and Charli XCX kept their shades on. Saint Laurent's daytime silhouette this season is an inverted triangle, with broad shoulders narrowing to slim skirts and sheer tights. For evening, it flipped upside down, with slinky sweaters and grand ball skirts. The colours were of cocktail ring gemstones: emerald, sapphire, ruby and garnet. There was leopard print, naturally, in silk blouses with a silicone gloss. With slicked-back hair, shards of rock crystal jewellery, hands nonchalantly in pockets – nothing so mundane as a handbag here – the models oozed aloof Parisian chic, sauntering easily in spike heels to the voice of Nina Simone. Designer Anthony Vaccarello said before the show he wanted the look to be clean, no ornamentation, no decoration. 'Simplicity of silhouette – as if created with a few pencil strokes – has defined the Saint Laurent ideal.' Under Vaccarello, the house of Saint Laurent has its sights set bigger than fashion. Not content with being one of the leading names in style, the company has ambitions to be a cultural powerhouse. This show was moved from its usual slot at the beginning of Paris fashion week to the end to avoid a clash with the Oscars, because Saint Laurent Productions is now a fully-fledged movie studio, producing the multi Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez. The fate of Emilia Peréz was torpedoed halfway through award season by the disclosure of racist tweets by star Karla Sofia Gascon, but this has not deterred Saint Laurent, which has also produced Parthenope, a new film by Paolo Sorrentino. Film is seen by Saint Laurent as a platform to amplify its cool image beyond style into the broader culture, and Vaccarello recreated Yves Saint Laurent's famous 1966 Le Smoking tuxedo jacket for the actor Celeste Dalla Porta to wear on screen. A Saint Laurent-backed project with the director Jim Jarmusch is also in the works. Saint Laurent's cultural ambitions are also reflected in an ambitious revamp of its Paris flagship boutique in collaboration with the Judd Foundation, which promotes the work of the late American artist Donald Judd. Furniture by Judd is for sale at the Paris store, displayed alongside Saint Laurent evening gowns and handbags, while an exhibition of Judd's woodcuts and prints is on display on an upper floor. The house has also diversified into the restaurant industry, with the opening of a Paris branch of LA's Sushi Park.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Zoe Saldana Goes Super Tall in Black Leather Knee-High Platform Boots at Saint Laurent's Fall 2025 Show
Zoe Saldana is sticking with Saint Laurent. The actress has kept a close relationship with the Paris-based brand for the past year. Saint Laurent Productions produced 'Emilia Perez,' for which Saldana reigned triumphant on the awards circuit this year, ultimately nabbing the Academy Award. In addition, she's one of the faces of the brand, appearing in one of its recent campaigns. So the star did her duty and appeared at the brand's show on Tuesday to watch Anthony Vaccarello's latest collection. More from Footwear News Lady Gaga Towers in Grungy Platform Combat Boots Prior to 'Mayhem' Album Release in New York Zoe Saldana Clutches Her Oscar in High-Low Saint Laurent Skirt and Strappy Heel for Vanity Fair's 2025 Oscar After Party For the event, Saldana wore a pair of second-skin platform boots. The shoes were made of black leather and reached up to her knee. They also included a side zip as well as a rounded, square shaped toe. The leather was tight on Saldana's leg, conforming to its shape. Most prominently, the boots included a thick, chunky platform. The block heel was also cut thin but wide, which accentuated the silhouette. It likely measured around six inches, a height that is often nearly impossible without a platform. The shoe was markedly different than what Saint Laurent showed on the runway. The label presented a selection of sharp and shapely single-sole heels. Some boasted thin, curved stilettos with slight flares at their base. The heels of others were straight but also pin thin. The shoes were largely slingbacks and some included an origami satin flower embellishments on the vamp. The toes were cut closely around the silhouette of the foot, curving in before coming to an elongated, sharp point. That isn't to say that Saint Laurent is averse to a platform: Saldana notably wore the company's satin La Scandale heel throughout awards season. That shoe includes a stacked platform as opposed to the inset platform of the boot she wore on Tuesday. She wore a red version of that open-toe style to the Critics Choice awards and a black version to the Golden Globes. Zoe Saldaña's Shoe Style Through the Years [PHOTOS] View Gallery31 Images Launch Gallery: Saint Laurent Fall 2025 Front Row: Zoe Saldaña, Hailey Bieber and More [PHOTOS] Best of Footwear News Zoe Saldaña's Shoe Style Through the Years [PHOTOS] Mikey Madison's Elegant Red Carpet Shoe Style [PHOTOS] Kamala Harris' Best Footwear Moments Through the Years [PHOTOS]
New York Times
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
How Saint Laurent's Big Bet on ‘Emilia Pérez' Lost Its Luster
Normally, the Sunday before Paris Fashion Week would be a day of frenetic activity for the Saint Laurent atelier and for its designer, Anthony Vaccarello. Normally, they would have only two more days to get ready for their fashion show, which has become one of the must-see opening events of the French collections. Normally, they would be rushing around, finalizing clothes, hair, makeup. But this Sunday, a group of Saint Laurent executives, including Mr. Vaccarello and most likely Cédric Charbit, the chief executive, and Francesca Bellettini, the deputy chief executive of Kering, Saint Laurent's parent company, plan to be in Los Angeles, at the Dolby Theater. 'Emilia Pérez,' a film from their new initiative, Saint Laurent Productions, has been nominated for 13 Oscars — the most for any non-English language movie ever — and its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, has made history as the first openly trans woman to be nominated for best actress. And in anticipation of what was supposed to be the scene of a great triumph, Saint Laurent had postponed its show from the first day of Paris Fashion Week to the last. But then came the tweet crisis. And then, instead of signaling a whole new stage in the fashion-film relationship, 'Emilia Pérez' became yet another example of the risks that can accrue to a brand when it gets too close to a (fallible) star. To recap: In 2023, Saint Laurent started Saint Laurent Productions. It was the first time a fashion brand had created a subsidiary not just to dress stars for the red carpet, but to invest in their feature projects. Along with David Cronenberg's 'The Shrouds' and Pedro Almodóvar's 'Strange Way of Life,' 'Emilia Pérez' was one of its first projects. Mr. Vaccarello was credited as the costume artistic director on the movie. Saint Laurent clothes played pivotal roles in the wardrobes of various characters, including a faux fur coat worn by Selena Gomez and a red suit worn by Zoe Saldaña. Since the film's premiere last year at Cannes, where it won the jury award as well as the best actress award (which was shared by the cast), almost all of the stars have worn Saint Laurent at major red carpet moments. Ms. Saldaña, Ms. Gomez and Ms. Gascón wore Saint Laurent at Cannes and at the London Film Festival. Ms. Saldaña and Ms. Gascón wore Saint Laurent at the Golden Globes, where the film won four awards, and Ms. Gascón appeared on multiple notable dress lists (including that of The New York Times). Saint Laurent created an art book about the making of the film and hosted a book signing in its Los Angeles store. The relationship was, it seemed, a perfect match: proof that after decades of dressing celebrities, contracting with celebrities as brand ambassadors and making mini-movies-as-advertisements starring celebrities, it was time for fashion to put its money where the projects were. L'Officiel speculated about whether other brands would soon follow Saint Laurent's lead. But then the journalist Sarah Hagi discovered years-old racist tweets by Ms. Gascón. Netflix, which had distributed the film, quickly distanced itself from Ms. Gascón; so did the director, Jacques Audiard. She tried her own crisis management, which Netflix disavowed. She seemed to disappear from the promotional tour, even as the furor proved a drag on the film's momentum. (She will, however, be at the Oscars.) Saint Laurent kept silent throughout the brouhaha — and did not respond to requests for comment for this piece. But suddenly, the idea that an increasingly interdependent relationship between fashion and film might represent the future of the two industries was cast in a wholly different light. 'It makes sense for global luxury brands to find global audiences via art, movies and sport,' said Luca Solca, the chief luxury goods analyst at the research firm Bernstein. And for a brand like Saint Laurent, working with edgy directors like Mr. Cronenberg, Mr. Almodovar and Jacques Audiard of 'Emilia Pérez' creates a halo effect of artistic cool for more mundane items like handbags that is impossible to quantify. 'But clearly, things can go the wrong way, too,' Mr. Solca said. 'Sometimes, you step on a rake. And it hurts.' The 'Emilia Pérez' debacle is not the first time the risks of being associated with human beings with potentially problematic preferences and pasts have been brought home to fashion. Indeed, third parties are what Alla Valente, an associate at the market research company Forrester, called 'businesses' biggest risk-management blind spot.' This has been true since long before Ye sent Adidas and Balenciaga into a long-term defensive crouch with his antisemitic rants. In 2005, Kate Moss was caught on camera apparently sniffing cocaine, and Burberry and Chanel canceled her contracts. In 2021, Lanvin and Pandora cut ties with the Chinese actor Zhang Zhehan when he was photographed in front of a Japanese shrine to World War II. But as the cost of doing business has risen, so have the stakes. The crisis consultant Risa Heller said that on a scale of damage, the 'Emilia Pérez' fallout should be relatively limited for Saint Laurent, given that most consumers did not yet associate the fashion brand with the film, but that there was cost in what might have been. As Ms. Heller said, 'all brands are trying to figure out new ways to get in front of new consumers.' Film must have seemed the perfect answer, and in a sector reeling from the rise of streamers and the growing gap between blockbusters and indies, fashion must have seemed a highly attractive white knight. Now, however, even as Saint Laurent Productions continues full steam ahead, with 'Parthenope' by Paolo Sorrentino and projects with the directors Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch in the works, and even as Ms. Saldaña fronts a new campaign for the house (and wears Saint Laurent as she continues to collect awards), other brands may think twice about following their lead. Despite the existence of 'reputational risk insurance,' or 'disgrace insurance,' which, Susan Scafidi of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University said, 'can be part of other insurance policies or a separate policy designed to cover costs of crisis management and related losses,' human risk is almost impossible to avoid. 'This was probably on no one's bingo card of what could go wrong,' Ms. Heller said of the Gascón backlash. 'But from now on, every brand will have to add it to the list.'
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Zoe Saldaña Glitters in Thom Browne Gown With Her Kids on the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Red Carpet
Zoe Saldaña made the Santa Barbara International Film Festival a family affair on Wednesday in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Oscar-nominated 'Emilia Pérez' actress attended the red carpet event with her family, posing for photos with her three sons, twins Bowie and Cy and youngest son Zen. Saldaña wore a glittering dress courtesy of Thom Browne. The sleeveless maxidress featured sharp shoulders and a boxy bodice with an A-line skirt. The dress included allover black sequins and backless elements, with two bands of small fabric with Thom Browne's signature stripes holding the back of the dress together near the base of the neckline. More from WWD Zoe Saldana Embraces Fluidity in Khaite Dress With Rippling Effects for 'Tonight Show,' Talks 'Avatar 3' With Jimmy Fallon Zoe Saldana Is the Latest Celeb to Carry This Bestselling Mini Bag That Shoppers Say 'Goes With Anything' — And It's Surprisingly Affordable Calvin Klein, Thom Browne, Khaite, Carolina Herrera Called Standouts by Stores in Otherwise Subdued New York Fashion Week Saldaña completed the look with black pointed-toe heels and accessorized with jewelry courtesy of Yeprem. As for her glam, the actress' hair featured an intricate braid and slicked back style with Jennifer Behr bows in her hair. The actress' makeup featured a glowing look, with bold brows, a smokey eye and glossy lip courtesy of makeup artist Vera Steimberg. Saldaña's look was curated by stylist Petra Flannery, who also works with Renée Zellweger and Reese Witherspoon. Prior to accepting the American Riviera Award at the film festival, Saldaña posed for a few photos with her three sons. Saldaña shares her children with her husband of more than 10 years Marco Perego. Saldaña's awards season attire thus far has featured a string of top-line designers and fashion houses. Saint Laurent, the fashion house Saldaña wore to the Critics Choice Awards, is among the most notable designers the actress has worn over the course of the last several months. The French luxury fashion house has an intimate connection to 'Emilia Pérez,' the film for which Saldaña earned her first Oscar nomination. Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent Productions served as a coproducer on the Netflix film. Many of the costumes featured in the film came from Vaccarello's archives, which costume designer Virginie Montel styled for the cast. View Gallery Launch Gallery: 'Emilia Pérez' Los Angeles Red Carpet Premiere: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and More Star Style [PHOTOS] Best of WWD French First Lady Brigitte Macron's Fashion Journey: Louis Vuitton Looks, Shades of Blue and More Kate Middleton's BAFTA Dresses Through the Years: Jenny Packham, Alexander McQueen and More Red Carpet Looks NFL Honors' Standout Fashion Moments Through the Years: Ciara Goes Sheer, Travis Kelce Suits Up and More
