This is hilarious and wonderful to me; making guests be part of this spectacle is funny and nearly parody, like something that easily could have been in Zoolander. All those little famous and not-famous faces looking through a little porthole at an outfit. I’m delighted. But the actual artistic explanation for why Valentino set up their couture show like this is very interesting. Via W:
[Alessandro] Michele presented a vision of grand characters; guests sat around carousel-like wooden circles looking into narrow windows to take in their looks one by one. The models walked into the center of the circles as Kirsten Dunst, Tyla, and Dakota Johnson looked through the viewing windows. The optical device is more than just an unusual runway set—it’s a reinvention of a forgotten moving-image mechanism from the late 1800s called a Kaiserpanorama. In recreating the long lost cinematic device, Michele sought to slow down our gaze and give each look a solitary, delicate moment of concentration.
I kinda love it? It’s couture week, it should be over the top. And we’ll certainly see some of these on red carpets; I made a few predictions.
