LEWIS RISING: Among the guests at the Chloé show in Paris was Sienna Miller, the poster girl for the boho chic movement that designer Chemena Kamali single-handedly revived with her debut collection last season.
But the French label appeals to an eclectic mix of women, as evidenced by the presence of Selma Blair, Diane Kruger, Jessica Miller, Pom Klementieff and Juliette Lewis, who was wearing black velvet flares and a black tiered lace blouse.
Fresh off her critically acclaimed performance as villain Cutthroat Bill in the alternative Western “The Thicket,” Lewis has more “avant-garde” projects up her sleeve.
She will appear with Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly in futuristic psycholoigal thriller “DreamQuil,” the feature debut of photographer-turned-director Alex Prager. Lewis has also wrapped shooting “By Design,” which has been billed as a twist on the body-swap genre.
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“She falls in love with an inanimate object,” the “Natural Born Killers” star said of her character. “It’s so hard to describe, so I just use the word ‘avant-garde,’ but it’s really about longing and love and feeling empty and wanting to be desired. But it’s also very funny.”
Up next is the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, Ca., where her band Juliette and the Licks will join a lineup including hard rock legends such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Mötley Crüe and Pantera.
“Now, my band, we just do one-off shows. I don’t want to tour, because I’m 51 now and I have torn meniscus,” she shared. Not that she’s letting injury dampen her flamboyant on-stage persona.
“To my surprise, Chloé is making a boxing, wrestler style shoe. I don’t know that it’s out, but they gave that to me yesterday because that’s what I want when I’m on stage,” said Lewis, who designs her own outfits. “I don’t know if I’ll wear my Evel Knievel jumpsuit.”
Also present was Nicolas Bos, who took over in June as chief executive officer of Chloé’s parent company Richemont, and Burberry chief creative officer Daniel Lee, in Paris for showroom appointments after presenting his spring collection in London.
“I met Chemena in the summer, and she said, ‘Oh, please come to the show.’ And actually, it’s 10 a.m. so it’s quite easy, because it’s before the day starts,” he said.
The designer praised Kamali’s fresh take on the cool-girl aesthetic introduced by his former boss Phoebe Philo during her Chloé tenure in the early 2000s.
“I really kind of enjoyed the uber femininity of the show and I think that’s something that hasn’t really been present in fashion, in the way that she presented it, in a long time,” he remarked.
“It’s been almost like very sexy and very bodycon, and she offers something different to that,” he added. “I think it’s always important to see a woman’s take.”
