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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Towering mushrooms adorn Grand Palais for Chanel couture show
www.dezeen.com: French fashion house Chanel filled Paris's Grand Palais with Alice in Wonderland-style mushrooms and real trees, which created a runway for the brand's Spring Summer 2026 haute couture show.
2 comments:
Arden
said...
First of all, big fan of Alice in Wonderland, so already a great start. Looking at the photos, the whole vibe of this runway is very fantastical and whimsical, and I absolutely love it. I think that the giant mushrooms work really well in the otherwise very open, light and airy space. I think the use of the pink and white colors complements the glass, and the green color that the space already has very well. The collection that this space was built to showcase is stunning. I think that the way they have built it to further enhance the clothing of this particular collection makes the show as a whole so much stronger. Being in a space specifically designed to complement the runway looks brings the audience so much further into the feeling and inspiration of the pieces being shown. It really helps show the designer's vision to the audience in a way that a normal runway doesn’t.
I always wonder how people do things with real trees. I have several questions. How do you get the trees? Who do you call to get whole live trees delivered for production? How are the trees delivered? How do the trees stay up? Do you water them? What do you do with them after the production? Do they just get disposed of or are they like replanted or something? Overall, I love this vibe and I think it really does give Alice in Wonderland by utilizing scale to make the viewer feel small, which is one of my favorite tricks in design. I like the integration of the fake mushrooms with the real trees that makes it feel natural and fresh while still being fantastical and whimsical. Fashion show sets are so interesting because you can always tell that the designer wants to add to the world of the collection but is trying so hard to not take focus away from the actual clothes, which I bet is a very hard balance to strike.
2 comments:
First of all, big fan of Alice in Wonderland, so already a great start. Looking at the photos, the whole vibe of this runway is very fantastical and whimsical, and I absolutely love it. I think that the giant mushrooms work really well in the otherwise very open, light and airy space. I think the use of the pink and white colors complements the glass, and the green color that the space already has very well. The collection that this space was built to showcase is stunning. I think that the way they have built it to further enhance the clothing of this particular collection makes the show as a whole so much stronger. Being in a space specifically designed to complement the runway looks brings the audience so much further into the feeling and inspiration of the pieces being shown. It really helps show the designer's vision to the audience in a way that a normal runway doesn’t.
I always wonder how people do things with real trees. I have several questions. How do you get the trees? Who do you call to get whole live trees delivered for production? How are the trees delivered? How do the trees stay up? Do you water them? What do you do with them after the production? Do they just get disposed of or are they like replanted or something? Overall, I love this vibe and I think it really does give Alice in Wonderland by utilizing scale to make the viewer feel small, which is one of my favorite tricks in design. I like the integration of the fake mushrooms with the real trees that makes it feel natural and fresh while still being fantastical and whimsical. Fashion show sets are so interesting because you can always tell that the designer wants to add to the world of the collection but is trying so hard to not take focus away from the actual clothes, which I bet is a very hard balance to strike.
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