Profile | ‘Who is haute couture queen?’: China KOL Lulu with million fans slams French design house for loan of dress to actress
- China fashion collector and buyer, orders outfit, pays US$2,800 deposit, says ‘classy’ brands do not lend customers’ clothes to other celebrities
An influencer in China has been outraged after a French haute couture brand loaned her outfit to British actress Anya Taylor-Joy.
Taylor-Joy wore the black bodysuit adorned with white silk roses, from Giambattista Valli’s Spring/Summer 2024 Couture collection, at the London premier of the film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, on May 17.
The influencer, known as Lulu, was angry because she had ordered the suit and paid a deposit for it in January.
She felt it was inappropriate for the brand to lend it to somebody else without asking her – especially another celebrity who will be photographed wearing it first.
Lulu, dubbed by many as “China’s haute couture queen”, said she had been purchasing high-end designs for a decade.
Haute couture is a French term that translates as “high dressmaking” and generally refers to handcrafted garments made by skilled artisans using the best quality materials.