Catching Up With Antonia Desplat as She Attends the Chanel, Armani Privè Couture Shows
In the new French miniseries “Made in France,” Antonia Desplat stars as an executive at a luxury fashion brand. It’s an industry that the actress continues to grow more familiar with offscreen, and on Tuesday, Desplat attended couture shows for Chanel and Giorgio Armani Privè.
“It’s my first time doing couture,” Desplat says in between the two shows. “So having a full day of couture is really fun. Particularly when I’m in the middle of promoting a show which is taking place in the fashion world.”
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For the Chanel show, she wore a black and beige leather jacket and matching pants from the spring 2025 ready-to-wear collection, with accessories and makeup by the French house. The actress praised the show as “elegant and delicate,” adding that she appreciated the mix of textiles and colors — and was particularly drawn toward a bright red halter-neck gown on the runway.
Afterward, the actress changed into a new beauty and fashion look for the 20th anniversary Armani Privè show. “My hair’s going to be longer this time compared to this morning,” she says of her hairstyle crafted by Perrine Rougemont; her makeup artist for the look was Leslie Dumeix.
For the show, she wore a long black Armani gown with high slit and vested bodice with a plunging neckline. “It has a strength to it,” she says of the look. “The top almost looks like a man’s vest, but in a more feminine cut. I like that, because I love suits and I also like dresses. It felt right, and it felt sexy, beautiful and feminine.”
Desplat recently wore an archival gown from Giorgio Armani’s 1998 collection to the Rome Film Festival, connecting the designer’s Italian roots to her film “Modi,” a biopic about Italian painter Modigliani.
“Through fashion, I always want to tell a story if I’m promoting a project, and somehow ring true with either the topic of the film or the character,” Desplat says. “I feel very lucky to be a newbie in their little family,” she adds. “[Armani] is an icon. I think he just turned 90 years old as well, so to be able to see him and meet him tonight will be an honor.”
“Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness,” a biopic about Italian painter Modigliani, will be released in theaters later this spring. Desplat stars as writer Beatrice Hastings, and grew up in the same building that houses the artist’s studio. She praised the work of British costume designer Penny Rose for helping her channel the character.
”She really captured the personality of Beatrice,” Desplat says. “On paper it shouldn’t work, but for some reason it does work, and the second I put on these costumes I was automatically transformed in a completely different energy,” she adds. “Costumes are the biggest tool for us [actors] to have that one last step to enter the body of a character.”
She loops back to the present moment: couture. “And so that’s why today I’m having fun by creating two different looks,” she adds. “I can pretend to be two different people today, which is excellent.”
Desplat is also starring in the upcoming BBC series “The Gold,” out this spring, as well as Wes Anderson’s next movie “The Phoenician Scheme,” scored by her father and frequent Anderson collaborator Alexandre Desplat. “I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to say,” she says of the upcoming espionage film. “But it was amazing to be able to share the screen with Benicio del Toro and Charlotte Gainsbourg.”
Launch Gallery: Antonia Desplat Attends Chanel, Armani Couture Shows
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