lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Fashion

Picture taken of a mirror bearing the brand “”, at the Cour Carree at the Louvre Museum during the (From left) Russian fashion editor Miroslava Duma, French former model Lucie de la Falaise, US actress and model Olivia 2015 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show. Palermo, and French model Camille Rowe attend.

Dior gets frantic with Cotillard, Bruni, Fanning here was something frantic in the air on Friday at Christian Dior. The queue for the ready-to-wear show CARLA BRUNI’S SIMPLE LIFE Tsnaked out way past the storied walls of Paris’ Louvre Her husband has just positioned himself again to be in and dangerously into the road. Frenzied bloggers, and the running for French president, but Bruni insists she’d photographers - as well as curious tourists - pushed and rather just be a simple, erm, ex-, award-win- shoved for a glimpse of Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. She ning singer, face of Bulgari and multimillionaire heiress. It’s arrived tardily in a demure black Dior couture gown with hard for some. Bruni, despite creeping in quickly to Dior, large abstract collar and entered through the giant mirror- triggered a media scrum and a thousand iPhone flashes as clad annex. she mingled near actress Dakota Fanning. The radiant 46- But the swarm might also have had something to do year-old, one of the highest paid models of the 90s, insist- with a certain Carla Bruni. It’s little wonder - in the age of ed she was just too old for the catwalk. “I’m no longer of Twitter - that such a sense of desperation clings to the Dior the age to do that,” she purred, looking ravishing in a shows: Four times a year, for a mere 15 minutes, it’s when sparkling diamond encrusted snake necklace. celebrity, fashion and the world’s media collide. Here are highlights and the show reports from Friday’s spring-sum- mer 2015 collections.

Models pose during a photocall for Dior.

Isabel Marant