Cannes Shopping Festival
Cannes Shopping Festival : fashion on a red carpet background
The eighth edition of the Cannes Shopping Festival, scheduled over the Easter weekend, offered shopping and lifestyle festivities around fashion shows and prestigious evenings. The event annually attracts many European visitors, who visit the City of Cannes on this holiday season.
Fashion shows mixed with artistic events took place in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals and Congress preceded by a red carpet during which the crowd of guests attending the shows could photography themselves.
On Thursday, April 21, stylist Frédérique Marlene Kragbé opened the Cannes Shopping Festival with her ethical, Vintage Couture, and environmentally responsible fashion show. On Friday, April 22, Cannes Galeries Lafayette offered a multi-brands fashion show of all styles summer garments peppered with performances involving dance, acrobatics, music, and live-painting. On Saturday, April 23 : Ready-To-Wear Fashion show with Azzaro and Ferragamo Women collection Spring/Summer 2011 ; guests were entertained with live music by the group Angels. On the last day, Sunday, April 24, in the afternoon, the Bijou Beach hosted a multi-trades Eros Giuliani fashion show, and at 20H30, in the Palais Grand Auditorium, guests have discovered Denis Durand’s Couture fashion show (wedding and evening dresses).
Larger brands established in Cannes have contributed to the city’s influence on the international scene. The shops offered a special welcome to visitors from 18.30 for a glass of champagne and inviting them to discover their latest collections. More than a dozen of them have hosted the president of the Cannes Festival Gilles Jacob’s private photos exhibition.
Frédérique Marlène Kragbé
The name of her fashion show is «Ballet behind the mirror». FMK goes behind the mirror to see what are the nice pictures accumulated of the «belles» who mirrored in it in the past. Making new with old. Or how to recycle clothing and vintage fabrics to create pieces of haute couture. Here's FMK’s signature of her creations. She draws her inspiration from the past, including the 30s for details and 50s of which she loves the femininity and elegance of skirts, dresses, petticoats she matches with vintage couture accessories.
Galeries Lafayette
The Galerie Lafayettes fashion show was the rendez-vous of Fashion and Art. The Summer looks were designed by Calvin Klein, Gaastra, Desigual and Avant-Première (a Galeries Lafayette trade), for casual and fancy sea bathing collections. For wedding, the local designer Nadia Atier, from La Fée Corsetée and the suit trade Luois Purple have presented their collections. Highlight of the event, Jean-Luc Pelé, chocolatier master, showcased his reation, the chestnuts and chocolate corset. Artists peppered the show : Rock group Drunk Souls, singer Elodie Tisserand, dancers from Parfum Cabaret, Dans’Emoi, painter Mr OneTeas, and many others.
Azzaro & Ferragamo
For Azzaro, Vanessa Seward presented her Spring / Summer women collection, inspired by the Tigris River banks in the 30s, the precious memories of Shirley Temple and Dorothy Gale and ancient underwater Atlantis. The female figure is highlighted in a couture spirit.
The Ferragamo's new collection pays homage to "The Pool" by Jacques Deray, French cinema iconic film once sublimated by the couple Romy Schneider and Alain Delon. Bohemian and chic for her, elegant jet-setter for him, Salvatore Ferragamo sign a line that reflects a certain nostalgia for the past years.
The Angels’ live music intermingled with great talent with the show.
Eros Giuliani at Bijou Plage
Located between the Port Canto and the Palm Beach, Bijou Plage became in 20 years a mecca of gastronomy in Cannes. Bijou Beach was the scene of a ready-to-wear and styling show created by Eros Giuliani.
Denis Durand
Designer at heart, Denis Durand creates upscale women clothing. In twenty years of creative and prestigious shows, he gained a true notoriety with a demanding clientele in search of an authentic custom-made. His taste for fashion led him to specialize in evening dress and wedding dress. For six months, Denis Durand has definitely chosen Cannes to settle and get inspired by the legend of Cannes, the glamor and elegance of the Croisette international events. His Spring/Summer collection is dedicated to the universe of the Festival de Cannes then and now.
