Now that was a show. There was naive youth and disaffected youth. There were villains, mermaids, princesses, lightning, fireworks, rats, and Kylie Jenner. For those who dared, the after party included the chance to ride Hyperspace Mountain (epic). When I regretfully exited Disneyland Paris at the stroke of midnight, techno still echoed through the Magic … Read more
For resort, Coperni’s Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer were in an American state of mind. “I wanted to pay tribute to a place I love, which is Silicon Valley,” explained Meyer at a makeshift showroom in Manhattan where the pair briefly decamped to show their latest collection. It’s a very specific, very fitting choice for … Read more
A towering black obelisk—or maybe a half-flipped Asterix–loomed over us in the far, far, away Aubervillier TV soundstage to which Coperni had transported us as its late-night space. The obelisk (very Kubrick) lit up as John Williams’s The Conversation from Spielberg’s Close Encounters of The Third Kind played. “The collection is a whole sci-fi tribute,” … Read more
If you are in the middle of a pre-collection appointment and you suddenly find yourself talking about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, then you can only be meeting with Coperni’s Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant. “As you know, we are very inspired by technology and innovation—it’s our passion,” Meyer said on a recent Zoom … Read more
