LOST IN TRANSLATION: Although her face was visible on a variety of giant screens at the Palais d'Iéna, French actress and art curator Guslagie Malanda remained largely incognito at Miu Miu as she moved through the crush of photographers battling to snap photos of guests make, including South Korean singer Wonyoung Jang; Thai singer, songwriter, record producer and actress Minnie; Japanese singer and rapper Momo Hirai; British actress Emma Corrin and musician Lorde.
The “Black Mirror”-esque short film that Cécile B. Evans created for the show, which was partly a commentary on artificial intelligence, could soon be expanded into a full-length feature film, Malanda said. “Miu Miu is just the beginning of the story between Cécile B. Evans and me as an actress,” she said. She drew parallels between artificial intelligence and her job. “I'm always in this dangerous tension between reality and fiction because I'm an actress and I'm always in between,” she said. “We worked on it with Cécile; it was wonderful.”
In the film she played an interpreter of forgotten languages and a memory that escapes her and makes the other guests think.
Corrin thinks about language “when I try to do the New York Times crossword puzzle every day.” The actor commented, “My friends and I started doing this recently; It's a pretty fun way to start the day. It’s a collaborative effort.”
When it comes to puns, Ever Anderson is a fan of journaling. “I like to keep a lot of memories there,” she said after the show. “Some call it hoarding, I call it being creative.”
Anderson was escorted to her seat just as the show began, laughing over her matching buckled Church's brogues with her front-row neighbor, Chinese singer, rapper and songwriter Lexie Liu.
The topic of translation led Aja Naomi King to recall her son's first experiences with the language. “My son learned German before he learned English, so there were often times when I didn’t understand what he was saying,” she said. “He looked at me so earnestly as he tried to communicate, and there was just something so beautiful about wanting to be understood.”
Hailee Steinfeld loved the show and the concept. “The film was great. It's all so incredible, it's so amazing to come and see how much goes into a show, it goes so much further than just the clothes,” she said.
Kristine Froseth was already a fan of Evans' approach to art, she said. “All of her work is based on human interaction and technology, and I think it's so important that we talk about it and see how it affects us psychologically,” she mused. Technology “is all around us,” she said. “We’re all going to film the show, it’s a part of us, it’s just going to get crazier.”
However, on your next project, no devices will be visible on the screen. Froseth begins filming the second season of the period drama “The Buccaneers” in April. Like Anderson, she also believes in old-fashioned notebooks. To prepare for the role: “I kept a lot of journaling in the first season, so I'm just going to read those and reconnect with the cast.”
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