The Story Behind Nicole Kidman’s Traditional Karl Lagerfeld Chanel Robe on the Met Gala 2023

The brief movie was directed by Baz Luhrmann, and made a couple of visible references to his 2001 movie Moulin Rouge, which additionally featured Kidman in a starring function. Within the business, Kidman ran by way of the streets of New York Metropolis within the pink Haute Couture gown with an extended prepare, festooned with feathers. She escapes the paparazzi behind a cab with Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro to the tune of Debussy’s “Claire de lune.” When it initially aired on tv—after a premiere in theater—it made headlines for its £18 million price ticket. In these pre-YouTube days, the concept of a brief promotional movie was breaking new floor.
Luhrmann, who attended this yr’s Met Gala along with his spouse, costume designer Catherine Martin, made the advert on the request of Chanel’s then-creative director Jacques Helleu. “I’ve no actual expertise however what I could make you is a . . . trailer for a film that has by no means really been made, that’s not about No 5 however wherein No 5 is the touchstone,” Luhrmann advised the model, in keeping with the Monetary Instances.
Different shut collaborators of Lagerfeld wore his designs to the occasion on Monday. Gisele Bunchden additionally wore a feather-laden robe, however hers was white with angel wings, from 2006. “He was a gentleman—at all times so variety,” she stated to La La Anthony on the Vogue livestream, earlier than reminiscing on her favourite expertise working with Lagerfeld. “One time we have been capturing a marketing campaign barefoot in Paris… It was actually so enjoyable.”