Beautiful production. The Birkin interlude was touching but as for the clothes...
Le Palace hold a special place in French fashion and even in French culture. This club represented the exhuberance and renaissance of French fashion. It was a time of excess that has forever impacted our culture.
The production instead of being celebratory felt a bit like a funeral of an era that is already gone. Birkin added that Drama factor.
Ok, we could create a connection between those clothes and the spirit of freedom and excess of Le Palace but the problem is that Michele, no matter where he decide to show his collection, it’s always the same narrative.
The same exact collection could have been shown in NYC, at the studio 54 (the place which used to be the 54) with Diana Ross, Cher or Bette Midler for the interlude.
There was nothing particular special about this collection. It’s typical Gucci: some good, some bad with fun sunglasses...
Showing at Le Palace was more a way for Kering to compete with the big players that are Chanel & LVMH.