Whoopi Goldberg Critiques AMI FW25

WEDNESDAY 9:35 AM JANUARY 22, 2024 PARIS

It’s that point once more—we’re again in Paris to kick off one other month of vogue. Yesterday, in an deserted constructing within the ninth arrondissement, a single saxophonist silenced the gang at AMI FW25, after which a slew of subtle earth-toned tailoring streamed down the runway. The French co-ed model, artistic directed by Alexandre Mattiussi, has at all times walked the speak of “quiet luxurious,” maintaining it stylish, modern, and wearable. Whereas taking within the work-appropriate checked suiting, playful gathered skirts and capelets, and really Parisian equipment, together with neck scarves and a brand new bag, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg chatted up his seatmate, Whoopi Goldberg, to seek out out about her secret love for dressing up.

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MEL OTTENBERG: I’m right here sitting subsequent to Whoopi Goldberg on the AMI vogue present. Who’re you sitting subsequent to?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I’m sitting subsequent to Catherine Deneuve!

OTTENBERG: Are you able to inform the individuals what she’s doing proper now? As a result of it’s so unimaginable.

GOLDBERG: She’s simply being her.

OTTENBERG: She’s vaping. She’s acquired a type of massive glass vapes. It’s so cool.

GOLDBERG: She will blow something she needs in my route.

OTTENBERG: Oh, something. Neglect about it.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, yeah.

OTTENBERG: Welcome to Paris.

GOLDBERG: Thanks. Everybody ought to do that as soon as.

OTTENBERG: I wish to ask you one necessary query. Your Golden Globes outfit that was yellow within the ’80s with the sneakers, that must be on one of many best-dressed lists of all time. Do you are feeling that approach?

GOLDBERG: No. I just like the inexperienced outfit I wore in homage to Lucille Ball. However I’ve by no means been referred to as one who had something actually loving to do with vogue, as a result of Mr. Blackwell actually stopped me from dressing. 

OTTENBERG: As a result of it wasn’t enjoyable?

GOLDBERG: As a result of he didn’t assume it was me. Andre Leon Talley stated, “You costume how you’re as a result of that’s who you’re.” So between Andre and a number of other different magnificent individuals, I’ve developed my very own factor. After which I hold displaying up in locations like this. It actually hasn’t stopped however I inform individuals, “Put it on me and I’ll put on it.” I couldn’t let you know why it was good. However I can let you know about actors.

CATHERINE DENEUVE: How lengthy are you staying in Paris?

OTTENBERG: Catherine Deneuve simply requested Whoopi how lengthy she’s staying in Paris. She’s absolutely partaking. Perhaps she’ll speak to me too, however I don’t know. I get starstruck.

GOLDBERG: Yeah, completely.

OTTENBERG: And it reminds you that it could possibly nonetheless occur to you, which I really like.

GOLDBERG: Oh my god, yeah. Once I was right here years in the past, I’d see Alain Delon and I’d see simply all these fantastic individuals whose movies I really like. After which I get nervous as a result of I’m going to say, “Oh, I really like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” and I do know that’s the unsuitable identify. So I simply assume it in my coronary heart and hope she will get it by osmosis.

OTTENBERG: You’re actually simply maintaining it full Whoopi Goldberg without end. And that’s what makes you so sick, man.

GOLDBERG: Nicely, thanks for that. My god, everyone’s 5 years previous.

OTTENBERG: All people’s 5 years previous. I’m turning 49 this 12 months, however what? Fuck it.

GOLDBERG: I’m turning 70. I simply needed to take a deep breath.

OTTENBERG: Let it out. Any massive plans?

GOLDBERG: Not but. My child retains threatening me as a result of my granddaughter additionally has the identical birthday, so we have fun loads collectively. So nobody is aware of the place we’re going to finish up, however now that us, you’re going to get dragged in. [Pointing at the runway] That’s an amazing coat. That coat could be nice on you.

OTTENBERG: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. What are you sporting? What’s your match?

GOLDBERG: That is one thing AMI despatched me. The footwear are slightly grownup for me as a result of I don’t usually do that, and so they put me in stockings as a result of the costume has a slit. However I’m so glad that they did it. They stated, “Come be with us.” I used to be like, “Okay.” So I left The View job. I stated, “I’ll be again.” They stated, “When are you leaving?” I stated, “Inauguration Day.”

OTTENBERG: It was the correct day to go away.

GOLDBERG: So will you keep for the following present?

OTTENBERG: I’m staying. I’m right here for a number of days after which I am going both to New York or London. I don’t know.

GOLDBERG: Is there extra?

OTTENBERG: There’s a number of extra days of Males’s Style Week after which it’s Couture.

GOLDBERG: What’s the distinction?

OTTENBERG: Males’s Style Week is all the lads’s reveals, and it’s truly very chill in comparison with Girls’s Style Week. And Couture is de facto chill as a result of it’s one massive present a day. Right here, there’s actually one to 2 reveals daily. However the ladies’s ready-to-wear reveals, that’s in February into March, and that’s actually hectic. I do a bunch of reveals, a bunch of conferences, a bunch of appointments. It’s actually psycho for 21 days straight.

GOLDBERG: Wow. So did you go to the Louis Vuitton present yesterday?

OTTENBERG: I didn’t. Did you go?

GOLDBERG: No, he ain’t calling me.

OTTENBERG: They need to invite you. You’d look sick in that stuff.

GOLDBERG: I am sick on this stuff. It’s lovely, however in some unspecified time in the future you need to draw the road and say, “Okay, it might be nice to do that, however I do know that once I put it on, it’s unsuitable.”