From Balmain to Rihanna’s Fenty Puma Show, Go Inside Gio’s Fashion Tour
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For W’s glamorous globetrotter, Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, it’s a fab, fab world, especially during the Paris collections, which took her from Olivier Rousteing’s atelier to backstage at Rihanna’s Fenty Puma show with Jourdan Dunn and Sara Sampaio.
“The entrance to Rihanna’s Fenty Puma show at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, in Paris, featured a broken chandelier. It was the perfect backdrop for this dress from my sister Sara Battaglia’s debut ready-to-wear collection. She actually made two of them, knowing full well that it would be my favorite look! For mine, she was kind enough to add a few inches to the hemline, because I’m a lady.”
“Olivier Rousteing presented his Balmain collection at Paris’s Hôtel Potocki. I could definitely make myself at home there.”
“The decor of my room at the Villa Cora hotel, in Florence, reminded me of Anna Dello Russo—just add a D.”
“The clichéd photo from Caviar Kaspia, in Paris, is of a potato. I went with a pancake face instead.”
“The British Fashion Council invited me to a breakfast at Buckingham Palace during London Fashion Week. This vintage Courrèges couture look was fit for a royal occasion.”
“Backstage at her Fenty Puma show, Rihanna [center] and models Jourdan Dunn and Sara Sampaio reminded me of a cool version of Antonio Canova’s The Three Graces sculpture.”
“This Gucci dress [right] is straight out of a book of 1890s–1930s fashion [left] I’ve had for ages.”
“At the Frame denim dinner in New York, everyone received a jacket. I’ve always said Fashion Month is like a concert tour!”
“In London, my car stopped at a light in front of this house. How cute is it? The colors and scale reminded me of a set from a Wes Anderson movie.”
“I wanted to steal these studded leather bras from backstage at the Alexander McQueen show in Paris.”