After a week of sweltering events in Paris, the Celine show on Sunday was the first to offer guests a bit of respite.
Not only did temperatures drop following a thunderstorm on Saturday night that saw lightning hit the Eiffel Tower, but the brand kept the all-white venue fresh thanks to powerful air conditioning and a misting system located above the VIP section, where K-pop superstar Kim Taehyung — aka V, from BTS — sat with actors including Oscar Isaac, George Mackay, Finn Wolfhard and Noah Jupe.
Grace Jones swept in looking dramatically stylish in a black tuxedo jacket with power shoulders and a black bowler-style hat.
“I’m not hot — it’s not hot anymore, and I live in Jamaica mostly,” she said, peeling away her jacket lapels to show off her cleavage. “See? I’m not sweaty at all.”
The singer was just back from a tour in Australia, and was gearing up for gigs in Ibiza, London and Lisbon over the summer. “And my son just had a young baby, so I’m going to go and have that experience with him,” she added.
George Mackay
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Isaac’s latest film, “In the Hand of Dante,” landed on Netflix on Wednesday, and has baffled some critics with its parallel plot lines. But the actor had only good things to say about reuniting with Julian Schnabel, following their earlier collaboration on the Vincent van Gogh movie “At Eternity’s Gate.”
“He’s incredible. He’s like a mad genius: first stroke, best stroke, right? So he really trusts instinct,” he said of the artist-turned-director.
“It’s an impossible film, but there’s not a lot of people that are that bold with their form of expression — the same way he does with his paintings,” Isaac continued. “It’s incredibly challenging and not meant for everyone or easily consumed, but something that you know can maybe last, because there’s so much layers and depth to it.”
Isaac and his wife, filmmaker Elvira Lind, arrived in Paris the day before and therefore caught just the tail end of a record heat wave across Europe. “I’m from Miami, so I’m used to the swamp heat,” the actor quipped. “But it’s a little scary to see it here, and this early in the summer. It just points to some scary things happening in the world.”
Oscar Isaak
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Isaac is getting ready to shoot another Netflix project, the eight-episode series “The Roman,” which centers on the high-stakes universe of casinos. “It all takes place in the world of Vegas — a treatise on greed,” he said.
Mackay, meanwhile, was fresh off the U.S. release of “Rose of Nevada,” in which he and Callum Turner play a couple of fishermen who travel back in time. Where would he like to go, if he could pick any point in history to return to? “I just did a film in Rome, so maybe back to Ancient Rome,” the British actor mused.
Next fall, he’ll hit screens in 19th-century costume for the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” in which he plays Edward Ferrars, marking his debut as a leading man. While keeping mum on the particulars, he was confident the movie directed by George Oakley, and costarring Daisy Edgar-Jones, will satisfy fans of the literary classic.
“The book is beautiful, and I’ve seen the film, and I think the film is beautiful, so I think it’s true to the themes of it and the telling of it. I’m so proud to be a part of that one. I think everyone’s done a wonderful job,” he said.