Céline Dion put on a showstopping performance at the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday evening.
The multi-award-winning Canadian singer who is known as the “Queen of Power Ballads” performed “Hymne à l’amour” by the French singer Édith Piaf from the base of the Eiffel Tower.
In what is destined to become an iconic moment from the Games, the singer wore a couture gown by Dior.
From the second floor of the Eiffel Tower – majestically crowned by the Olympic rings – a monument reflecting all the magic of Paris, she delivered a moving performance dressed in a white silk georgette gown, embroidered with a hypnotic palette of sequins and magnified by over 500 meters of fringing studded with thousands of silver beads, seeming to come alive, vibrating and scintillating to the rhythm of her enchanting performance.
The exceptional design was entirely made-to-measure requiring over a thousand hours of work and perpetuating the prodigious embroidery savoir-faire of the House of Dior.
During the grand finale, Céline Dion was accompanied at the piano by composer and conductor Scott Price in a black Oblique tuxedo by Kim Jones for Dior.
