The entire fashion show seen from behind the curtains: the final details being sorted, catwalk trials, last moments before the start, photographs and Ennio Capasa’s crew.
All the charge, emotion and tension of back stage. The catwalk trials, the lights, blacks and whites, the smiles, the manicures, make-up.
Warm air.
The final moments before the girls come out. The packed venue, friends, hugs and embraces and the final touches while the models are lined up ready to go.
Darkness.
Light.
Music.
They’re off!
The photographers, the TV cameras, the reporters.
The first models come back in. They change in a rush. Flashes and flurries of confusion.
Check out the batch of photos shot backstage at the Paris Costume National Fashion Show: the models being made up by their make-up artists, hair stylists on the job, the press office busy with last-minute problems and things to organize, the reporters as they make notes and then there’s Lyne Desnoyers – the well-known make-up artist who talks about the make-up choices for the parade.
A round-up of pictures from Costume National’s showroom.
To discover the rest, do come along tomorrow! The venue is at ECOLE DE MEDECINE, 45 Rue Des Saints Peres, Paris at 2 pm and on our website from 7 pm onwards.
Inside the Via Fusetti showroom everything is ready for the fitting test. On one side each model is waiting for his turn while on the other Ennio is directing his staff as they make late adjustments to items and organize how the collection is going to be presented.
Ennio Capasa has always accustomed us to interpreting and analyzing his collections on two levels – the first, in which we notice costume National’s unmistakable lines, classic cuts and standard colours of his colour-palette: opaque tints, blue-black and every possible shade of grey – while our second reading, perhaps more attentive and discreet, lingers on the materials and details.
From behind the racks we can observe every little step needed to ensure the fashion show’s successful completion.
Each item passes back and forth from showroom to tailoring shop numerous times. After being tried out on the models and photographed, they end up on the parade board before finally being listed and packaged.
These guys move fast and they have to if they want to catch the right moment and immortalize that perfect detail. Backstage these are the people (that’s us, folks!) who are the most cumbersome and in-the-way.
Be careful not to disturb the right photo-op angle or stop us snapping the models just a few moments prior to their entrance onto the runway! In any case they’re the ones that always win!
Check out all the smiles, looks and shadows under the eyes (well hidden by
make-up) of Ennio Capasa’s crew. However every feeling of weariness
vanishes when they hear the ecstatic applause with which the public greets
the new collection. A job well done!
A TV camera fixed in position, a microphone for sound plus the yen to let everyone in on what’s going on. Watch proceedings back-stage at a fashion show – listen to the models’, team members’ and friends’ comments as each tells their own back-stage story and describes their feelings on the day – including mixed reactions to Ennio’s new look
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