As the sun set over Paris Tuesday night, guests gathered on the rooftop of the Pompidou Center for Mango’s 60th anniversary fashion show. A mirrored catwalk snaked around the top floor with Spanish brand hired Kate Moss, Terry Richardson and many of the industry’s best backstage and runway talents to parade Mango’s looks for fall-winter 2011-12.
But first, dark screens rolled down for the screening of a short film, “The Great Escape,” featuring Terry Richardson and Kate Moss racing around Paris in a white van getting dressed for a party. To wit: All cameras turned to the museum’s escalators where Moss and Richardson sauntered up to watch everything from animal-print dresses to tailored suits power down the catwalk.
The net result – at best – be described as a spectacularly mediocre soirée.