by In the time match, Maria Sharapova beat Serena Williams.
The two tennis players were seen at the Valentino show on Sunday. Sharapova came early; Williams walked in just before the show was about to start. But it was all love-love.
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“There’s something about coming in early and seeing a show come together,” Sharapova said. “It’s not just the beauty of the scene, but the people and the materials and the substance it takes to put a show together. So those are the magic moments for me.”
Sharapova hit a few shows this Paris Fashion Week, including Victoria Beckham and Hermès. She said she learned the amount of work it takes to put together a collection through her friendship with Gabriela Hearst.
“Understanding what goes into the fashion industry and how physical and mental it is to produce consistent shows, season in, season out, I have so much respect for this industry, especially female designers that I know, ” she said. “I know how hard it is to juggle motherhood and work.”
Sharapova said she took inspiration from the way designers manage aspects of their businesses, including beauty. She’s been taking time off since selling her candy business, Sugarpova, in 2021. But she’s now working on a platform that’s not only in the fashion space, but also includes a lot of things, she said mysteriously. “But it’s still early days,” she said. “TBD.”
Singer Gracie Abrams arrived in Paris and did her homework before the show – by watching “The Devil Wears Prada” in her hotel room.
Does she think it’s an accurate representation of the fashion industry? “Gently, in a way, and I say that with the greatest love,” she said. “It’s my favorite movie ever.”
(The film was a theme, as Miranda, creative director Valentino Pierpaolo Piccioli’s dog, as in Priestly, was in the front row.)
Looking around the Hotel Pozzo di Borgo, which was Karl Lagerfeld’s home for 30 years, she declared it a palace. Abrams toured with Taylor Swift during the summer and fall, and was now eager to enter the realistic world of classic films.
“I feel like I have to be in a new environment for a second,” she said. The singer has a few fashion shows under her belt, but it was several years ago and she wanted to fully embrace the moment.
“I always miss fashion week as soon as it’s over. Honestly, it’s so exciting to be around all kinds of different artists…[music and fashion are] both ways to express yourself. I love being dressed by people who are such geniuses in the world of fashion. I’m usually low maintenance and laid back. So I rarely dress up like this.”
She was in a lace dress with a full skirt, but not a very full cover up top. Abrams added another layer because the first impression was a little too strong, despite the current trend and subsequent runway look reveal. “It was almost a case of pasties,” she said.
The album, too, is in the shadows. She would only say that the writing process was “cathartic”.
“But I love him more than anything. I’m excited that it applies to everyone else, hopefully very soon,” she said.
Writing seemed to be the talk of the room forever, and “The Bear” actress Molly Gordon said she is working on a screenplay that she hopes to direct.
“I’m in my sweatpants, shirt era. So wearing a dress like this and doing my makeup is a very different energy. I haven’t left the house,” she said. Gordon was with her mom, Jessie Nelson. She joked that the two were so tired they were trying to speak rough French to waiters. “But we seem to be speaking in tongues.”
She wouldn’t reveal anything about the plot of her script, but she did talk about the process. “You try and then you hate it, then you write and then you turn on it, then you love it, and then you turn on it again. You don’t feel perfect about it but you jump off the bridge and try to be creative.”
Gordon said she learned from working with directors Olivia Wilde on “Booksmart” and Natalie Krinsky on “Broken Hearts Gallery,” and she co-directed “Theater Camp” with Nick Lieberman last year. Now she is ready for her first solo project.
“You learn tips and tricks and then you create your own toolbox. I feel lucky that I get to continue acting so I have to steal more from other directors. But if it’s done, that’s the dream,” she said as she stepped behind the camera.
The actress has no plans to go into fashion, but she knows what women want: pockets. As part of the outfit, they came complete with her Valentino mini dress. “I mean, what else could you want? I literally gasped when I found out it had pockets. Like, scary gasp. But now in every photo I have to make sure I fully show that I have arms.”
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