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Lanvin launches fashion-meets-dance campaign via Benjamin Millepied collab [Video]

The short film is currently airing on the brand’s webstore and through its social media channels with the dress and shoes worn by the dancer available to purchase.

Millepied is known for his fusion of classical ballet and contemporary dance, and he’s now “crafted an elegant and sophisticated dance performance that captures the symbiotic relationship between fashion and dance” in his link-up with the brand. 

Dancer Coline Omasson “embodies the quintessential Lanvin woman in the film”, draped in the label’s signature Charmeuse dress and famous Ballerina shoes. 

“French elegance, refinement and creativity are on display in the freedom of her body in movement. In the dance, she becomes one with the music, the movement, the dresses. Her inner life, her freedom of expression, are expressed in a fleeting, ephemeral moment of grace,” he said.

It continues label founder Jeanne Lanvin’s connection to music, embodied through her daughter’s work as a …

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French soldiers patrol New Caledonia after six people were killed in six days of riots • FRANCE 24 [Video]

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France imposes curfew in New Caledonia after unrest by people who have long sought independence WPXI [Video]

Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have announced a curfew and banned gatherings after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers descendants who want to remain part of France