Having lent its intellectual property to just about every household brand on the shoppable internet—including but not limited to Balmain, Christian Louboutin, Miu Miu, Givenchy, Gucci, Stella McCartney, and Coach—Disney has tried through several collaborations to be seen as a fashion-adjacent institution. I wonder if tonight it might have achieved something else: making fashion Disney-adjacent.
Coperni this evening closed the spring 2025 seasonwith a theme park-sized spectacle at Disneyland Paris. It was a strange thing to see establishment editors abandon their hard-won cool for… Mickey Mouse headbands… but a sense of delirium was perhaps to be expected this late in the fashion-month game. After a delayed soundtrack kicked in and the first batch of models had been dispatched along the enchanted promenade of Le Château De La Belle Au Bois Dormant—aka Sleeping Beauty’s Castle—fashion-favorites Paloma Elsesser, Jill Kortleve, Anok Yai, Lila Moss, Amelia Gray, and Irina Shayk played princess and villain in turret-necked minidresses, one-legged trousers, sinister …