Of course this show was always going to have class (in addition to serious style) and we were lucky to get invitations to show you the latest Wooyoungmi collection. As a matter of fact BDMOTP was invited backstage before the show (rather than after) which makes for some very interesting and entertaining observations. But we’ll keep that a secret even though we are giving you a glimpse, because the setting of the show was nothing less but the Intercontinental Hotel Paris’ Salle des Miroirs, one of those marvels of why Paris will remain the capital of fashion for the foreseeable future, because ambiance and entourage and decoration are not just something in fashion – they are everything.
Backstage Rehearsal
Remarkably the gilded, crystal-chandeliered, and baroque anti–chambre was the perfect beginning for the models waiting for un voyage dans la lune – a voyage to the moon – because that was the theme of this precious show which was casted as a luxurious voyage to the moon in the age where it has actually become possible to do so. The excitement and emotion of actually travelling to the moon to live there for a new generation is the concept around which this show was based, and it must maybe not reckon as a coincidence that what is widely considered to be the world’s first real film (Le Voyage dans la Lune, by George Méliès) was released a mere 113 years ago in 1902 in France, when going to the moon to live there was still but sheer dreams and fantasy.
So smack in the middle of the grand hall of mirrors there is set a giant round lighted moon, a beautiful white moon, around which the well-dressed models turn and twist in intricate patterns but always in a circle, so as if to defy escape-velocity only to eventually involuntarily return back to earth. The choreography is capturing and beautiful and as classy as the collection and it is precisely for this reason that Wooyoungmi (Mme Woo and Katie Chung) has such an outstanding reputation. It’s class. The ambiance. The meaning and the design. The organization. The vêtements in the new collection SS16. Un voyage dans la lune.
Posted by Sandro and photos by Mous.
