Coperni delivered an enchanting show on the closing day of Paris Fashion Week, in the heart of Disneyland Paris. The fashion brand, renowned for its technological innovations, modernized the Disney princess with a dark and sexy edge, accompanied by a new kind of 3D-printed bag that the Little Mermaid wouldn’t have shied away from.
More Maleficent than Cinderella.
Coperni achieved a new feat on October 1, the last day of Paris Fashion Week, by staging a fashion show at Disneyland Paris. Until now, only Mickey and his friends had taken part in such an event.
The date of the show coincides with the opening of the Walt Disney World Resort – the biggest of the Disney parks to open in Florida – 53 years earlier to the day.
At once baroque and contemporary, the collection presented by Coperni in collaboration with Disney Consumer Products and Disneyland Paris teams borrows more from the codes of Disney villains than from the wiser attire of its cartoon princesses. And this just as the park begins its Halloween celebrations, which run until November 1.
As fate would have it, on the eve of the show two years in the making, the first president of Disneyland Paris (then Eurodisney), Robert Fitzpatrick, died at the age of 84.
A Twisted Tale
Coperni chose to show its Spring-Summer 2025 collection at the foot of Sleeping Beauty Castle, the emblem of Disneyland Paris. In fact, it was this cartoon, released 65 years ago in 1959 , and more particularly its great villain, Maléfique, that largely announced the color, literally very black.
Here, Sleeping Beauty is not only a Disney masterpiece, it’s also a metaphor for the plural woman and her dormant childhood.
Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer’s brand presented a fashion show in three acts, alternating between childhood, Disney princesses and Disney villains. A world dreamed up in uchronic fashion, in the image of Twisted Tales, a collection of fan fictions offering an alternative history of Disney’s greatest characters.
The event opened with a series of casual and sportswear-inspired silhouettes – reminiscent of park visitors – featuring t-shirts with Mickey or Disney slogans inspired by the first Snow White cartoon (1937), micro shorts and Hawaiian motifs as if straight out of Vaïana.
This was followed by princess costumes featuring sequined gowns and pastel crinolines. The must-have Disney princess accessories were also on show, from tiaras to opera gloves and lace details. A good part of Disney’s female fairy pantheon was represented, such as Meg (Hercules) in a peplum gown, Cinderella in an azure blue bustier and Pocahontas in a nude fringed dress. For these princesses revisited in 2025, the vair slipper is in turn stiletto or flatter with silver mary janes.
Last but not least, the Disney villains, rockin’ princesses 2.0 and femme fatales capable of setting any rave party alight, closed the show. Many of them wore the famous jumpsuit, the “jersey tech” jumpsuit, a true Coperni signature that has become ultra-desirable since the appearance of Belgian singer Angèle wearing this model at the Paris 2024 Games ceremony. Combining magic and sexy, this tableau offers the opportunity to showcase little black neoprene dresses and other skai outfits with raised collars.
The highlight of the show, star influencer and businesswoman with 396 million followers on Instagram, Kylie Jenner, closed the event with a fountain of light and fireworks. Draped in a gothic-looking ball gown, she moved to the rhythm of Sleeping Beauty’s finale – originally performed by Georges Bruns – in a deliberately spectral synthesizer orchestration.
An unprecedented collaboration with Disney teams
“People don’t know how small Coperni is and surely how big Disney is,” the co-founders declared on Instagram, like a parallel to the power of Mickey, often referred to as the world’s most famous mouse. As provincials, the two co-founders have always nurtured a genuine fascination for Disneyland Paris, the park which in 2024 will be blowing out its 31st candle.
However, to turn the dream into reality and let the magic happen for the 700 spectators, it took two years of negotiations with Disney and six months of preparation. Not to mention that Disneyland Paris exceptionally closed its doors early that day, at 8pm (one hour earlier), cancelling its traditional night show. And all this at a time when France’s and Europe’s leading tourist destination is not letting up, judging by the 10.40 million visitors expected in 2023, up +4.7% on the previous year.
Disney’s merchandising and park teams have been hard at work. In fact, 10% of the collection was created in collaboration with the American company. This includes outfits featuring Disney characters, the horned hoodie with the Maleficent look, and the shoes and Swipe Bag with Mickey’s ears.
Disney is not new to fashion collaborations, however. Just think of a few recent outfits alongside Christian Louboutin, Stella McCartney, Uniqlo, Pandora and Swarovski. The House is renowned for its uncompromising commitment to quality and the faithful reproduction of its universe on its many derivative products.
An “under the sea” Swipe Bag
Coperni is accustomed to making a splash, and has not failed to live up to its reputation. We remember her spray dress on supermodel Bella Hadid, which “broke” the Internet at her 2022 fashion show. This time, in addition to an amazing sound and light show and a most unusual setting for a fashion show, the fashion brand offered a new version of its Swipe Bag.
It’s hard to forget the previous Air Swipe Bag, which used silica aerogel produced by NASA, a material composed of 99% air and 1% glass, reputed to be the lightest solid on the planet.
Named Ariel Swipe after the Little Mermaid, the company’s latest cartoon adapted into a live-action film, this new version of the oval handbag is based on a new 3D water-printing technology.
Produced by Rapid Liquid Print (RLP), an MIT Gravity Free Manufacturing company, the Ariel Swipe bag is made from recyclable platinum-hardened silicone. Unlike traditional 3D printing methods, which rely on layering, RLP’s approach is much more fluid, literally.
The process involves printing in a water-based gel, resulting in flexible, stretchable designs without being weighed down by gravity.
What’s more, the eco-friendly production process requires no post-treatment, meaning the bag is ready for use as soon as it’s printed.
Coperni signs an ode to a return to childhood in the realm of Disney dreams. And as if to prolong the magic, the park’s only hotel, the Disneyland Hotel, underwent a luxury makeover at the beginning of the year, with suites in the colors of the various Disney princesses, including a tribute suite to Beauty and the Beast and another to Frozen.
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