Tuesday 30 September
showroom CoSTUME NATIONAL
Paris, 7 Rue Froisart
 
 

Just one day left to the parade and the rest of Ennio’s people meet up at Malpensa Airport.
 
 

9.00 Flight to Charles de Gaulle, Paris. The team is bringing the collection’s final items and most of the accessories.
 
 

11.30 Arrival at the Rue Froisart showroom. Some tailors who got to Paris yesterday are already working on the clothes’ final modifications and elaborations. Ennio is making a final check of the outfits with a model.

At the same time the casting director, Maida Boina selects the girls for tomorrow’s show.
 
 

2 pm The models start to turn up for fitting. The first to arrive is Emma Mclaren – some last-minute corrections to her dress and she’s done. Next comes Katrin Thormann but her dress is too short and the petticoat needs to be changed.
 
 

5 pm Time for a music check with Micheal Gaubert. Ennio okays the track list. Forceful, driving rock right in line with the collection.
 
 

5.30 pm Final touches with airbrushes! Ennio’s assistants go up to the top floor of the showroom to complete the garments’ definitive shades and tones. They’ve been hand-painting them for months now!
 
 

6.30 pm The make-up artist and hair stylist arrive to trial the looks. Carlo Capasa describes Ennio’s collection as : “Virtual poetic architecture”…A title that aptly sums up the programme.
 
 

Till late…