{"id":102175,"date":"2025-09-09T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zine.modalova.com\/zine\/?p=102175"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:02:17","slug":"sophie-fontanel-galeries-lafayette-fashion-comeback-we-dreamed-of-from-september-5-october-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uk.modalova.com\/zine\/sophie-fontanel-galeries-lafayette-fashion-comeback-we-dreamed-of-from-september-5-october-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Fontanel at Galeries Lafayette: the fashion comeback we dreamed of, from September 5 to October 16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


As Paris finds its rhythm again, Sophie Fontanel transforms the Galeries Lafayette into a theater of fashion. Between desire and lightness, the journalist brings together iconic pieces and unique finds for a rentr\u00e9e that is both poetic, cheeky, and terribly Parisian. We love it all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fashion According to Sophie: A Matter of Skin, Memory, and Freedom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sophie Fontanel is not just any fashionista. She narrates fashion as one would write a novel, with humor, tenderness, and a freedom that disarms dogmas. A journalist with a rich career, from Cosmopolitan<\/em> to Elle<\/em> and then L’Obs<\/em>, she has established a writing style where irony caresses poetry. We adore her Instagram account, which is sensitive, poetic, and funny, where she shares her impulses both in fashion and in a simpler daily life, far from the sequins and close to the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her vision of fashion is sensual<\/u><\/strong>: an heir to an Armenian lace-making grandmother and a mother who was a seamstress, she speaks of textiles as an intimate heritage. For her, clothes are not trends but characters. A pea coat becomes a travel companion, a bag a confidant, a dress a silent declaration. She loves to remind us that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA piece of clothing can save a day, change a mood, open a horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is this sensitive philosophy that the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann has entrusted to her for orchestrating the fashion rentr\u00e9e 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Objects of Desire: A Joyful Couture Rentr\u00e9e<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Until October 16, Sophie Fontanel unveils her \u201cobjects of desire.\u201d Not pieces to impress, but garments chosen for their narrative power, capable of awakening an emotion or a memory. The rust-colored pea coat Dries Van Noten<\/strong> evokes an autumn stroll under a still warm sky; the checked trench AMI PARIS<\/a><\/strong> exudes cheeky Parisian chic; the forest green leather jacket Loewe<\/strong> is a portable forest; and the Falabella bag by Stella McCartney<\/strong> shines like a joyful provocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fontanel flips the perspective: fashion is not an injunction but a game. She invites us to rediscover the joy of childhood fittings, when a mirror became a stage and every piece of clothing, a theater costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFashion is not a straitjacket, it\u2019s a recreation,\u201d she declares like a mantra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Levi’s, Ferragamo & the Others: The Dream Casting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This rentr\u00e9e at the Galeries has the feel of an eclectic casting. Timeless stars like Levi’s\u00ae<\/strong>, with its eternal 501\u00ae and reimagined jackets, mingle with more confidential spirits whispering the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n