"It's been blacked out, punctuated with vignettes of props: a brass bedstead with seedy, dust-ruffled satin eiderdown, an American Lowrider, a bus-stop, a Bill and Ted-style telephone booth and a bunch of others. Rather than a catwalk show, with those scenes and a floor demarcated with white lines that recall the arthouse staging of Lars von Trier's Dogville, it looks like a film set."
"This season, Chavarria decided to stage a beyond-ambitious, multi-layered musical titled Eterno - an old-fashioned tragic love-story, with heartbreak, bust-ups and a gunfight, a bit West Side Story, a bit MTV (RIP) - all staged and filmed live and projected on a vast screen as the audience watched both perspectives unfold. "I'm a multi-dimensional designer," Chavarria says, before greeting the choreographer Damien Jalet, who has been putting some 90 models and dancers through their paces."
Willy Chavarria staged Eterno, a one-take live musical filmed and projected during an Autumn/Winter 2026 show in a blacked-out 1,800-seat sports arena on the southern periphery of Paris. The space was punctuated by vignetted props — a brass bedstead with dust-ruffled satin eiderdown, an American Lowrider, a bus stop and a Bill and Ted-style telephone booth — and a floor marked with white lines recalling Lars von Trier's Dogville. The narrative was an old-fashioned tragic love-story with heartbreak, bust-ups and a gunfight, mixing West Side Story melodrama and MTV aesthetics. Choreographer Damien Jalet directed roughly 90 models and dancers. A roster of Latin musicians doubled as actors and the live soundtrack, including Puerto Rican singer Lunay, Mahmood, the Adidas-clad boyband Santos Bravos and Chilean-Mexican singer-songwriter Mon Laferte as the doomed heroine. Three separate collections were presented alongside the cinematic performance.
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