Dior and Schiaparelli weave surreal fairytales at Paris fashion week – The Guardian

Paris fashion week is as theatrical as ever, even while playing to an empty house. Instead of their customary stadium-sized catwalk show, Dior filmed a dark fairytale in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, for an audience mostly watching on their phones.
The opulent venue was Diors answer to the challenge of how to make an event out of a show which is, in reality, not an event.
When lockdown ruled out the sociallydistanced catwalk show for a small audience which she had planned to stage,…

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