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Stageco Belgium is a model supplier for Chanel and Hermes in Paris

From September 28th to October 6th, just before the second lockdown, Paris Fashion Week attracted the beautiful people to the Grand Palais where, on the final day, Virginie Viard presented a Hollywood-influenced collection for Chanel’s spring/summer 2021 runway show.

No stranger whatsoever to the world of fashion and especially Chanel, for whom it has worked many times at the Grand Palais since 2006, Stageco Belgium was called in to help pay tribute to the movie capital’s iconic Hollywood Sign, building a structure in white-painted black steel to support a 123m long x 20m high white screen behind an LED-outlined Chanel logo. Comprising six towers and a single truss line, the structure also carried clusters of PA speakers.

Elsewhere, Stageco’s brief included the installation of a spider camera tower behind the limited audience, which was important for live streaming. Built over a day and a half and dismantled in a single day, the project – managed by Tom Bilsen with crew headed by Patrick Martens – required four trailers of equipment.

Stageco also worked for Hermès when, at the Tennis Club de Paris, its models navigated an undulating white catwalk punctuated with columns adorned with mirrors or images of Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures. The chic presentation referenced surrealists Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau who clearly influenced designer Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski.

From Tildonk, Tom Bilsen collaborated with on-site crew chiefs Patrik Vonckx and Kevin De Meyer on the delivery of five equipment trailers, the installation of floor protection over the tennis hall’s four courts and a scaffold structure for the scenery and catwalk.