WISH UPON A STAR: Disney enlisted artists and designers, including Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry, Kenzo’s Nigo and Christian Louboutin to contribute pieces to their Create 100 project, which celebrates a century of the House of Mickey Mouse.
Sarah Andelman, former creative director of Colette, cocreated a collection of 100 pillows with artist Harry Nuriev that resemble Disney children’s books, and the idea inspired her to curate an event at Chanel’s 7L bookshop to kick off Paris Fashion Week.
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Andelman’s puffy tomes can be rearranged as chairs or a sofa, and sit center stage in the exhibit, next to a six-foot sculpture of Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey from the film “Fantasia,” designed by Alaska Alaska for Virgil Abloh Securities.
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Other objects presented include a showstopper of a necklace from Roseberry, inspired by the characters Cody and the eagle princess Marahute from “The Rescuers,” while Nigo created a “life-size” Yoda sculpture, and Maison Margiela deconstructed a traditional Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
Artist Charlie Kirihara customized a pair of Adidas shoes, while artist Gabriella Noelle created a chair inspired by Mickey Mouse, including ears and oversized extremities. Christian Louboutin’s collaboration with Marvel is in the collection, too.
Items from Cactus Plant Flea Market, Sara Shakeel and Valentino are also on display. The designers were given carte blanche to play.
“Everybody grew up with this. We all have memories from our childhood, discovering the stories through books or movies,” said Andelman, who cited “Roger Rabbit” and “The Jungle Book” as personal favorites.
Andelman noted that Disney has now expanded to include Star Wars, the Marvel universe, The Simpsons and other properties like National Geographic.
“It’s such an empire of cool things,” she said.
“There is so many different options now to make it fun and to make it more chic — I think it’s a no-limit world for designers to pick characters to play with,” she said. “And I think Disney enjoys to show that it has a space in fashion because they are both visionary and creative.”
“We are thrilled that Sarah Andelman is one of our collaborators and this event, timed to coincide with the start of Paris Fashion Week, is an opportunity to showcase her one-of-a-kind beautiful piece. It truly brings to life the fun, energy and playfulness of our beloved characters — everything we wanted from this anniversary celebration,” said Liz Shortreed, Disney senior vice president global fashion and home.
The opening night event welcomed designers and executives from the fashion industry, as well as hosted what is likely to be the most fanciful guest list of the week with Mickey, Minnie and other characters making their way from Disneyland Paris.
All of the items will be up for auction to benefit the children’s charity Make-a-Wish, plus Disney will donate $1 million to the foundation. The auction will run from Oct. 12 to 30 online.