It’s strange – fashion shows happen in the most beautiful locations and yet it is the nature of the spectacle that all eyes are deflected away from the walls and onto the slender, well-dressed figures parading at the centre. Yet, what walls. Pucci presented beneath the ornate scoop of a palazzo on Milan’s Corso Venezia, while Balmain was overseen by the serene firmament of statues that line the halls of the Grand Hôtel de Paris and the shadow of the Eiffel Tower fell through the windows of Le Théâtre National de Chaillot, during Rick Owens.
For AnOther Magazine’s senior fashion editor Agata Belcen, it was the Hussein Chalayan show at Le Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris that was particularly memorable. “You walked into a beautiful building, she said. “They had created a white wall space within the room, masking what was behind, but leaving it exposed about 3/4 of the way up so you could see the artworks painted above. It was a really nice way of installing a show in a space so that it connected to the venue and allowed it to influence your thoughts about the show, while making it a show space.”
Here, at the end of the fashion month, we present an alternative view of the designer’s venues through the photography of Giacomo Cosua and Jérémy Barniaud, skipping the clothes and instead recording architectural elements of the shows that may have gone unnoticed during the frenzy.
