with his dad and was engaged to be married. sage stallone was 36. drew brees refused to show up for off season practice until he got a contract worthy of him signing, and now he has it. a five-year deal worth $100 million, and get this web will make $40 million this year alone and it makes him the highest paid player in the nfl. that does it for me. up next, paris fashion week. back stage pass with elena cho, and i'll be back in 30 minutes. >> hi everybody and welcome to a very special edition of fhion back stage pass. i'm alina clo. we are coming you from paris. it is couture week when top housing fashions slow off their custom made looks for this fall and winter.

paris is the birthplace of fashion, on the streets and on the runway, being fashionable is a way of life. the height of elegance. with celebrity charm. >> just seeing how all of the clothes are made and seeing some of the most beautiful clothes. it's fascinating. i'm so excited to be here. >> you think you might be a client? >> i hope so. i think so. >> where couture meets rock and roll. >> you're taking this private design thing to a whole new level. >> yeah, the plan is to make it a lifestyle brand. >> and on the cat walk, fashion at its finest. couture literally means high sewing. the looks you see here on the paris runways will never be in a store near you. they're made to order, hand sewn, and can cost anywhere from

40,000 to hundreds of thousands of u.s. dollars. for a single garment. fashion houses like chanel and dior show up couture because they say it elevates the brand. another fashion house showing here in paris, versace, but it's the platinum blonde behind the brand you may recognize most, donna tella versace. she is mentioned in the devil wears prada. >> call donna tella. >> donna tella is so famous she is even parodied on saturday night live. >> you're beautiful. >> while this may be funny, there is a very private side to donna tella she rarely reveals. 15 years ago, her brother gee onny, the brand's founder was murdered. for the first time on television, donna tella speaks openly about her brother's death and what it was like it finally return to the place she last saw

him. paris's ritz hotel. it's nearly show time at paris's ritz hotel. why are they here? >> i've never been to one of these events. >> this is an event. not unlike a movie premier. >> how does it feel when you wear versace? >> you feel very sexy and very glamorous. >> they have come out for a fashion show, like no other. versace's latest couture collection. what will go down in history as donnatell why's return to the ritz. >> he never came back. >> it was painful. >> painful because it was her at the ritz in july 1997, that her brother, the man who started the versace label, showed his last collection. nine days later, he was gunned down on the steps of his miami mansion by andrew cunanan, a

serial kill wloer who committed suicide on the top after houseboat after a dramatic standoff with police. >> it was like a strange show and after the show, two days after, i said, we are in the ritz -- >> the two were as close as could be. she his muse. he, the creative force. the man who popularized the notion of dressing celebrities for the red carpet. the first to pay high salaries to models. creating the super model. when gianni was killed, donatellla took over so the brand versace would live on. >> everybody is looking at me and comparing me to gianni. but don't even compare me, no one will ever be as good as him. so i need it find my own voice. >> there were highs and lows. j.lo in this versace gown

brought a lot of attention. but the company lost money. donatella struggled with drug addiction. versace lost its way. then lady gaga came along. ♪ i'm on the edge of glory ♪ >> gaga openeder is sachy to a whole new generation. young buy wloers don't remember gianni versace. that gave donna tella the courage to do a collection for h & m and ultimately gave her the strength to return to the ritz. >> snim i'm not afraid any more. >> the runway built on top of the pool, just like her brother did, and the clothes, prints and pastels, reminiscent of her brother's designs. and yet, all her own. >> no one knowes a woman's body like donna tella versace. she just -- it's like art. her clothes are so beautiful. >> i look like a donnatella as really like a hero in a certain

way. she went through much in her personal life and her business life. and i think that she came out as a winner. >> in 2011, versace game profitable again. back stage, emotionally, how do you feel? >> you know, it is difficult but i'm very happy. i think gianni will be very lappy. >> ritsz will be closed for renovations but open in two years. will the house of versace come back? >> absolutely yes. >> and knowing donnatella, she will be back. coming up, crihristian deer, so loved in france, that when they opened their star designer, the fashion world's biggest name showed up. >> i don't care if i don't see anything else today. it was that beautiful. it was a new direction, yet so respectful of the past. >> no, i don't often go to

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couture, from your standpoint? >> well, it is the highest level of creativity that we have in fashion. i mean, just looking around the rackes this afternoon with the designers at valentino, the amount of thought and brilliance, you can't execute that at the ready-to-wear level. it is like any form of art or culture, i mean, you need the best of something to inspire the rest. >> welcome back. couture is where fashion begins. where designers are able to experiment with ideas and work with an unlimited budget. that's exactly what we saw at the house of dior. the 66-year-old fashion house unveiled its newest star designer during couture. it took a year to find the one, so when the chosen one unveiled

his first collection for dior, the fashion world was watching. call it a designer convention. mark jacobs. >> i don't often see you at a show. >> no, i don't often go to shows. in fact, very rarely. >> but he came to this. so did anna, and celebrities like slaron stone. >> are you looking forward to wearing the cloems? >> i'm wearing the clothes now. he designs in way that i personally like very much. >> who is he? >> he is a rock star in his own right. he is belgium rap simmons, christian dior's new artistic director, replacing john galiano who was abruptly fired following an anti-semitic rant. simmons higheriring was a year e

making. >> why did it take so long? >> i don't know. take the time to find the right fit. dior is very special. >> so special dior staged a set like no other for simmons debut, 1 million flowers lining the walls and high wattage crowd, including countless top designers. >> the amount of them made it very intimidating also at the same time, very scary. >> if it was scary, simons didn't show it and the clothes, just read the reviews. had the audience at hello. speechless, perfection. even the toughest critics swooned. >> he brought a lightness and simplicity to it that i thought was incredibly refreshing. nice clothes are fine. but can you find nice clothes everywhere. what raf brings is a point of view. >> did dior make the rht choice? >> from what we saw, i think a brilliant choice. >>? designing the custom-made clothes, simons was most interested in dior's early years

when dior himself designed. but fashion interpreting the past is the name of the game. >> like getting out a ball gown which could be seven meters of sequence, top, pants, hands in pockets, it becomes more like livable. >> one of fashion's top jobs. why even those rumored to be under consideration came to. >> every thought for a while this job was yours. >> no, but it's his. it's his and it's gorgeous. >> coming up, at heme with lenny kravitz under pair pips. /* the side of the superstar you may not be familiar with. >> when i was a little kid, it was important to me how my room looked, where things were, the flow, you know. the lighting. >> and if couture is so expensive and only a few hundred

women in the world can afford it, how is it a viable business? is it at chanel, just ask carl lagerfeld. in this economy when people say, why couture. >> more than ever because it is more money than ever. >> who are the women buying these clothes? meet 23-year-old rawina, she came to buy clothes from couture. we first caught up with zarino on day one of the couture, the versace show. looking more like a celebrities than a client. >> you know the clothes are so expensive. >> yes be i do. but it is like a master piece? as piece of art you wear. which is how clients justify spending so much money for one piece of clothing. next up, dior. where along with the world's top editors, she too sits front row. >> what is your couture budget? >> it depends.

you know, i -- >> the range? >> the range, 100 i think. >> 100,000? >> yes, 100,000. >> that will get her at most three couture pieces. problem is -- what did you think? >> oh, it was so awesome. it is the first time really, when i was in the place with that and that. >> dresses she will add to the ten couture pieces she already owns. >> you are already buying a top so what more is thereafter couture? >> i don't know. maybe jewelry. who knows. >> more of couture when fashion back stage pass from paris returns.

if a couture dress can cost six figures, what does it take to make one? >> the biggest difference is everything is made by hand. no sewing machine. >> we are inside the paris studio of valentino. >> all of the women have magic hands. >> but she has the number one magic hands? >> of course. >> okay. >> elle is known as the only couture seam strus at valentino who has the authority to take the designer's sketch and bring it to life. she leads the others. >> they take our sketch and our idea and make it something real. that's exciting for us. >> oures a thetic comes true

with their hands. >> taking something like this, and turning it into this. which takes time. >> we need 1800 hours to embroidery. then one week together. >> it takes patience. >> yes. very patient. >> does she ever get to see the clients wearing the dress? how does that feel? >> very emotional. she is very proud of it. >> ordering a couture dress can cost you mega bucks so why do designers make clothes that are hard to sell in we sat down with chanel's carl lagerfeld and to find out who even has the money to afford couture. as the only cameras allowed inside chanel's paris design studio, we get a glimpse of carl lagerfeld few see.

the chanel maestro at work. >> can you walk a little? >> just hours before he unveils his latest couture collection to the international press. the clothes you see here will soon be on the runway. but never in a department store. because couture dresses are custom made. >> made by hand. fits like a glove. >> with the most expensive fabrics and details, so intricate, a single dress can take hundreds of hours to make. >> it is like ideas, art form. so couture is the moment when it all starts. it is the place where you will hear and see it first. >> couture elevates a brand like chanel, even though many fashion houses lose money or break even doing it. at chanel, he says couture makes

money. >> on average what is the cost of a cure tour dress? >> it depends. goes from 30,000 to 200,000. >> for one piece of clothing. >> a lot of people don't understand why couture cost so much money. well, i have to tell you that craftmanship, that you see on the runways here in paris, is like no other. this is museum quality. >> so who's buying couture? >> you see, and they all have models. >> and younger these days, you said. >> yeah, they do. very young. >> and more international. >> completely different. japanese, chinese, russian, middle east, india, and brazil. >> and these clients are discriminating. >> you put a dress on the

actress on the red carpet, and she sees a feephoto with the dr, they won't buy the dress. >> yes, because with tlaul money, theouture client want a dress nobody else has. take this wedding dress. made of feathers as pearls, it weighs 15 pounds and took 500 hours to make. >> don't forget, a dress that expensive, it means 30, 40 people work on it. it creates a lot of employment. >> so for chanel and for, what does couture represent. >> the top. >> creme de la creme. >> creme de la creme. >> coming up, i visit rocker lenny kravitz at his home in paris and he opens up to me about his other passion, interior design.

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showing off custom-made garments that you will never see inside a store. we saw inside chanel's custom design studio and a one on one with karl laggerfeld. and couture week brings out the biggest names in fashion, clients with the biggest bank accounts and big name celebrities too. leah michelle, peers brosnan, kim kardashian, jessica alba and sharon stone. but one stood out along the rest. lenny kravitz. the american rock star opened his paris home to us, revealing his love for high-end fashion and especially home design. ♪ american woman, i said get away ♪ >> lenny kravitz, rock star. actor. >> i'm here to help you in any way that i can. >> interior designer? why not? >> i was always into my environment.

you know, even when i was a little kid. >> i sat down with kravitz at his palatial paris home, a place he called home for seven years. the four-story mansion is filled with all of his favorite things. art, a piano, four grammies, photos of his late mother, actress roxy rocker, and the couch and chandelier he designed. >> it always made me feel good. made the music sound better. you know, the lighting was right. everything was good. i think it goes hand in hand with everything that i do creatively. >> kravitz got serious about interior design just after he signed his first record deal. >> i add lost in new york and didn't have any money and wanted to have a place that felt like me. so i today start making stuff. >> then as he got more

successful, the budget got bigger. he bought more homes. in miami, brazil, and the bahamas. >> after a while, it got ridiculous because how many places can i have and how many times, can i, you know, redecorate it, every year, wanting to change the whole theme. so i decided to start doing it for other people. >> in 2003, he founded kravitz design. a residential commercial and product design company with a real office in new york. with real workers. and real projects. >> the same way i make my music. the same philosophy. i'm very detail oriented. if you put me in a room that's perfect except for one flaw my eye goes right to the flaw. it's kind of a sickness. my attention to detail. but that's the way i am. >> he's designed condos and hotel suites in miami, wall tiles, wall paper, and these chairs for cartel,

called madam mazelle. something he called couture meets rock 'n' roll. >> does one help the other? >> yeah. when i'm doing music i need a break from music it doesn't mean i want to stop being creative. >> how do you keep it all straight? talking about tile designs between gigs? >> absolutely. you have to. >> and at this house, there are rules. >> there is no-shoe rule at my house. we wear no shoes. >> why is that? >> it is nice to lay on the floor, roll around on the floor and be comfortable. you know. >> function first with fashion at its core and this is just the beginning. >> yeah, well the plan is to make it a lifestyle brand. that's been my dream for this company. the same way you would see ralph lauren. >> so we could see lenny kravitz furniture. lenny kravitz sheets. lenny kravitz clothes? >> oh, yeah. >> we close to seeing that? >> it's coming.

>> when people say they enjoy something or something gives them pleasure, the music, a couch, whatever it may be, it is just a great gift to be able to share something with other people. ♪ i got to go, american women, yeah ♪ >> and for that, lenny kravitz, we thank you. being in paris during couture has been an amazing experience. and here is one important take-away. ♪ ♪ >> you see on the runway, so many capes, so many pants. so you think, how is that relevant? well, come the next season, there will be even more pants than ever before and even more caves. these are the ideas that give the designer the opportunity it create the ideas now, that develop them for the ready-to-wear collection. >> so plan your wardrobe