GO BIG OR GO HOME: Even by Las Vegas requirements, Kylie Minogue made an entrance for the ages on Friday at The Venetian, kicking off her Voltaire residency by throwing off a big fake fur pink coat.
It was one among three seems to be created for the performer by French designer Alexandre Vauthier, who additionally designed her asymmetrical open-back fringed costume in a sundown gradient of crystals she additionally wore that night and a leopard crystal-embroidered jumpsuit in crimson with matching boots, slated to seem later.
“I needed to play with the beginnings of Las Vegas, when Liberace and Frank Sinatra made [the city] blow up,” Vauthier informed WWD forward of the premiere, describing the present vibe as a combination between Studio 54, the legendary cabaret-meets-nightclub The Field and “the very Vegas facet of the place [Minogue’s show is] taking place.”
Vauthier was significantly pleased with the fringed costume, a “actual problem” that required effectively over 2,000 hours of labor.
The fringed costume required some 2,000 hours of labor, together with painstaking crystal colour meeting.
Stefano Canulli/Courtesy of Alexandre Vauthier
It’s not simply Minogue whom he dressed for the event: the French designer produced some 141 items in complete for the supporting solid, in addition to all venue employees and hosts.
For Vauthier, engaged on this mission felt like a “breather as a result of it’s outdoors of the [fashion] calendar, with inventive objectives, expectations and necessities [that] are fully completely different.” It was the proper solution to stretch design legs that may go from “probably the most sober go well with to one thing extra on the market than Bob Mackie.”
All in all, Vauthier labored two years on the idea with producer Michael Gruber, in addition to Marc Zaffuto and Manon Savary of now-defunct Paris cabaret Manko.
To convey the seems to be to life, the designer teamed with costume designer Stefano Canulli, an trade veteran whom he’d first labored with underneath the late Thierry Mugler, Canulli’s collaborator Simon Crowhurst, in addition to the nimble arms of the Métiers d’Arts specialist ateliers Vauthier works with for his personal model.
There’s additionally a crimson embroidered leopard look to come back.
Stefano Canulli/Courtesy of Alexandre Vauthier
Though the French designer has beforehand created stage outfits for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, this mission was a special beast owing to the variety of outfits for dancers “as a result of that’s an entire different strategy the place you must take into account each side from script to choreography to really accompany them — take into consideration what they’ll do and current on stage,” Vauthier stated.
To keep away from any costume connotations, he “handled them as a couture assortment…pushing to discover a steadiness between what they want [to move] for his or her efficiency and the technicity required of [couture] designs.”
Within the solid’s lineup are gold jumpsuits for a Area Age second, black backless catsuits, a bedazzled leopard-print quantity in addition to a draped bodysuit paired with a furry pink chubby — to match two risqué poodle characters.
Feminine staffers put on rhinestone-adorned bustiers or a physique go well with with marked shoulders paired with stirrup leggings that give legs for days, whereas males sport sharp jackets or tuxedo shirts with a bedazzled bib.
Uniforms for venue employees and hosts had been additionally designed by Vauthier.
Stefano Canulli/Courtesy of Alexandre Vauthier
There are additionally sun shades, designed by eyewear guru Alain Mikli, together with Minogue’s yellow crystal pair paired with that rainbow costume.
Footwear is designed by Giuseppe Zanotti, who at present holds the license for Vauthier’s eponymous footwear line.
All through Minogue’s three-month residency, the Parisian designer promised there can be additional surprises with new iterations of seems to be. “There’s a lot extra the place that got here from,” he quipped.
After Minogue, the 1,000-seat Voltaire nightspot, which is supposed as a cross between a cabaret and a nightclub, has revealed Christina Aguilera because the headliner for the vacation season, debuting a present on New Yr’s Eve weekend.