Dior, Louis Vuitton and a host of small independent brands were featured in the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony.
Lady Gaga rehearses prior to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France.Paris promised to kick off the 2024 Olympic Games with the greatest show on earth. Mother Nature rained on the French capital’s parade, but Friday’s opening ceremony was still a feast of homegrown fashion.and Berluti brands all played a role in the three-and-a-half hour show that unfurled on the Seine, marking the first time the opening ceremony has not taken place in a stadium.
The singer donned a black feather jacket and black satin bustier and panties, topped with a detachable skirt embroidered with pink and black feathers, to perform the French cabaret performer’s best-known song, “Mon truc en plumes,” alongside 10 dancers on the banks of the river. Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. It was part of a tableau dubbed “Sororité” — the word replacing the traditional “Fraternité” of France’s national motto “‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” — that paid tribute to women who have made a major contribution to French history, including Simone Veil, who as health minister promoted the law legalizing abortion in France in 1975.
On Friday night, Vuitton was front and center again in a pre-filmed scene worthy of a blockbuster movie or video game “Assassin’s Creed,” as a masked torchbearer made his way across the rooftop of the French fashion house’s headquarters overlooking the Seine to enter a workshop where craftspeople were making trunks — a bit of poetic license, since the building mainly houses offices and showrooms.
Shortly afterward, ballet dancer Guillaume Diop performed live on the roof of City Hall dressed in a beige Vuitton vest and ample brown pleated shorts. Diop last year became the first Black dancer to be named an “étoile,” or star dancer, of the Paris Opera Ballet. De Vilmorin designed the costumes for a sequence dedicated to love that featured a throuple, in a tribute to the French New Wave classic “Jules et Jim.”
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