{"id":102177,"date":"2025-09-09T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zine.modalova.com\/zine\/?p=102177"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:04:29","slug":"sophie-fontanel-galeries-lafayette-fashion-comeback-we-dreamed-of-from-september-5-october-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.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 regains its rhythm, Sophie Fontanel transforms the Galeries Lafayette into a theater of fashion. Between desire and lightness, the journalist engages in a dialogue between iconic pieces and singular finds, for a return 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 that freedom that disarms dogmas. A journalist with a rich background, from Cosmopolitan<\/em> to Elle<\/em> and then L\u2019Obs<\/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 in both fashion and simpler daily life, far from the glitter, close to the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her vision of fashion is sensual<\/u><\/strong>: the heir to an Armenian lace-making grandmother and a dressmaker mother, she speaks of textiles as if they were an intimate heritage. For her, clothing is not about trends but about characters. A 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 up a horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is this sensitive philosophy<\/u><\/strong> that the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann entrusted her with to orchestrate the fashion return of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Objects of Desire: A Couture and Joyful Return<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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Levi\u2019s, Ferragamo & Others: The Dream Casting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This return at the Galeries resembles an eclectic casting. You can find timeless stars like Levi\u2019s\u00ae<\/strong>, with its eternal 501\u00ae and reimagined jackets, alongside more confidential spirits whispering the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n