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Monday 2 october 2017
Fonda, Mirren make star turns as fashion models for L’Oreal

Models wear creations for Valentino Spring/Summer 2018 ready-to-wear fashion collection pre-
sented in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.
(AP Photo/Francois Mori)
By THOMAS ADAMSON whole new level.” light gray with sporty lines
PARIS (AP) — It was a fabu- cut a beautiful style as it
lously fashionable week- VALENTINO RELAXED hung loosely in a boxy sil-
end in Paris: here are some It was dramatic new-look houette.Elsewhere, sporty
highlights: Valentino. shoulder straps added a
GIVENCHY REBORN Designer Pierpaolo Piccioli fashion-forward feel to
In a season of debuts, let the Valentino girl’s hair a vermilion floor-length
Givenchy’s was surely the down this season with a gown that was gathered
crowning show. more relaxed street-wise by a toggle at the hem. A model wears a creation for Givenchy’s Spring-Summer 2018
ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Sunday, Oct. 1,
In a testament to its con- style with a sporty kick. The buttoned-up reputa- 2017 in Paris.
tinuing prestige, the Pari- An eggshell coat with a tion that Piccioli garnered (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
sian house was granted plastic sheen and decon- for Valentino with former
rare permission to hold its structed feel opened the design partner Maria Gra- Week’s most anticipated time celebration.”
spring-summer show Sun- show. It covered a rippled zia Chiuri — who now is at events. “It’s amazing,” purred
day inside the secretive model Irina Shayk back-
stone walls of the Palace stage against the back-
of Justice, the former royal drop of the Arc de Triom-
palace on the Seine River phe.Seventy looks from
where Marie Antoinette French design houses such
was imprisoned before the as Balmain, Giambattista
guillotine. Valli and Isabel Marant
The palace’s grand stone were showcased to thump-
steps were wrapped for ing music and cheered on
the occasion in a regal by a VIP audience includ-
wrought iron shell — with ing supermodel Naomi
“GIVENCHY” glimmering in Campbell.But the biggest
gold above a gate. stars, for once, were on
Inside, celebrities and fash- the runway.Jane Fonda,
ion critics held court. Film 79, provoked screams from
maker Pedro Almodovor, onlookers as she became
whose white Givenchy the oldest model to walk
shoes matched his bright the runway this Paris sea-
white hair, chatted ani- son — blowing out air-kisses
matedly with Moore, who in a figure-hugging bronze
matched in a stylish white zebra dress and stopping
tuxedo. Blanchett and at one point to hug Camp-
Mara, both dressed head A model wears a creation for L’Oreal Spring/Summer 2018 ready-to-wear fashion collection pre- bell in the audience.
to toe in black, applauded sented in Paris, Sunday, Oct .1, 2017. “Well, it was exciting. It’s
vigorously as the collec- (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu) hard to believe I just did
tion’s 68 pieces went by. mini dress that finished dar- Dior — is gone. L’Oreal had transformed that on the Champs Ely-
“I’m very excited,” Mara ingly at the upper thigh, the Champs-Elysees into a sees,” Fonda said after her
said. and was followed by short L’OREAL SHINES one-off outside runway — turn as a model. “I liked it
“It was extraordinary... culottes and sports vests Tourists munching ham- enlisting 18 fashion houses, very much. I did not fall
The sleeves, and the fab- that exposed glimpses of burgers on the first floor of as well as countless stars over.”Helen Mirren, 72,
rics, and the subtle use of skin. the Champs-Elysees Mac- and models to showcase also garnered excitement,
color,” Blanchett said. “I’m The sports-infused looks Donald’s couldn’t believe clothes, makeup and hair walking down with bright
excited for women and I’m were the collection’s high their luck as they peered trends. red lips in a tailored royal
really excited for Givenchy points. down with a perfect view The beauty giant billed it as blue coat and a cane that
... She’s just taken it to a A short turtleneck gown in of one of Paris Fashion a “once-in-a-fashion life- she theatrically waved.q