2023-06-09 09:50:14
Translated by
Veronique DOTRAUX
Published on
June 9, 2023
Light, camera, high fashion! Director Claude Lelouch will film Stéphane Rolland’s next haute couture show for the opening scene of his next feature film.
The show and filming will take place at the Opéra Garnier on July 4, the second of four days of Parisian haute couture shows for the fall-winter 2023 collections.
Stéphane Rolland’s next haute couture collection will be a tribute to opera singer Maria Callas, hence its location, the couturier revealed to FashionNetwork.com.
It will be the 50th film by the 85-year-old veteran director, to whom we owe the legendary A man and a womanwhich won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.
“The Palais Garnier will shine with a thousand lights to pay homage to the absolute diva Maria Callas, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of her birth,” said the French designer.
“Claude Lelouch’s cinema rocked my childhood but also my first emotions. There is no director more sensitive and more romantic. His way of talking about love is unique. To meet him is a privilege,” he added.
Lelouch is about to shoot during the parade to integrate these shots into the opening scene of his next film, currently in preparation, and which will be titled Eventually. On the bill should be Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Boujenah, Kad Merad and Elsa Zylberstein.
The opening scene and credits will be set against the backdrop of Rolland’s upcoming haute couture scene, the Parisian house has revealed. With its ceiling painted by Marc Chagall, its seven-ton bronze and crystal chandelier, its legendary marble staircase and its Napoleon III Baroque neoclassical architecture, the Palais Garnier served as the setting for the filming of the Phantom of the Opera.
Stéphane Rolland is a regular at opera shows. Recently, he set up his haute couture podium at the Théâtre du Châtelet, where he performed for the first time The Russian Ballets and where Stravinsky created Petrouchka. He will now focus all his attention on the Palais Garnier, where some of the greatest performances of Callas have taken place.
“We are aware of this privilege and are secretly preparing this major task which represents a tribute to an incredibly lyrical personality and to an icon of the social life of a Paris that we want to reinvent. We also want to celebrate a director with infinite sensitivity, in love with Paris and life. Isn’t that also the mission of haute couture?” asks Stéphane Rolland.
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