EXCLUSIVE: Chloé Taps Three Women Artists for Show Collaboration

PARIS — Natacha Ramsay-Levi believes in the power of three: The designer has tapped a trio of female creatives to collaborate on her fall 2020 Chloé show, to be held in Paris on Feb. 27. New York-based artist Rita Ackermann has authorized several of her paintings to be reproduced on clothes and accessories, and the soundtrack will feature Marianne Faithfull reading poems. Meanwhile, the set will include five of Marion Verboom’s totem-like sculptures. After three years at the helm of the French fashion house, Ramsay-Levi said the time felt right to open up her creative process to other voices, with the intention of embracing a multifaceted vision of womanhood. “I’m not there to dictate what femininity stands for today. I don’t like the idea of things being fixed. I prefer the idea of perpetual movement, and I think that chimes with the spirit of Chloé as well: staying open to infinite possibilities and embracing the unknown,” she told WWD. Accordingly, the three artists were chosen for their capacity to reinvent themselves, starting with Faithfull, who has released more than 20 albums over a career spanning 55 years. “She has always been at the cutting edge. She did not remain the Marianne from the Sixties that everybody

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