full look. Valentino
Swept through time on the current of music, Zoë Bleu finds reflections of herself in the characters she embodies — gathering fragments of identity, drifting from dreams into a life steeped in enchantment. We find her strutting the streets while wearing Valentino when we speak to her for her digital cover story for Schön! 48, where she opens up about her character, Elisabeta, her 15th-century role in the upcoming film ‘Dracula: A Love Tale’. “She knows what she wants. She gets what she wants when she wants it,” Sidel says. She’s a princess, but she acts like a queen. She’s got a regal, kind of bitchy presence,” she jests. “The clothes really bring the role to life. I have a beautiful velvet dress encrusted with pearls, and it makes the bosom look amazing. Everything is covered, but it’s done in such a way that you can see that she’s sensual.”
Inspired in part by Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, French director Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale reimagines the legend through the lens of eternal love and reincarnation. “The very classical, historical way of thinking about ‘Dracula’ is ‘I’m going to suck your blood,’ and ‘You are mine,’ but that’s not this Dracula. It’s really something else; it’s a love story, not a horror film. It’s like ‘Romeo and Juliet’,” Sidel explains.
In Besson’s telling, both Elisabeta and Mina—the dual characters portrayed by Sidel—share an everlasting connection with Dracula, played by Caleb Landry Jones. This bond transcends time and identity. Sidel calls it “soul love.” To cultivate this depth of emotion on screen, Sidel and Landry Jones engaged in Butoh, a distinct form of avant-garde dance theatre marked by deliberate, expressive motion and inward emotional focus. “It was interesting to try and create a friendship through dance and music,” Sidel says. This nonverbal approach offered a profound avenue for connection, grounded in emotion and presence.
Another technique they used to sync emotionally was simultaneous music listening. This shared experience became particularly important for anchoring pivotal scenes. A recurring lullaby, for example, acts as a sonic thread linking Elisabeta with Mina — bridging centuries through melody. “My music project L’ESPIRAL was heavily impacted,” she continues. “I’ve made four of those [poems] into songs that I’m going to record this summer.”
Sidel sees a rhythmic logic in existence itself: “Everything is music, isn’t it? All of existence has a vibrational frequency; that’s music. Love is a frequency; it’s music. Like star-crossed lovers, a world begins between these two souls, these two people fall in love. And there is a music to it.”
jacket. CHANEL
top + skirt. Yohji Yamamoto
earrings. Swarovski
opposite
dress. Rokh
shirt. Les Fleurs Studio
shoes. Roberto Cavalli
coat. Mossi
dress + bra. Dolce & Gabbana
shoes. Dior
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jacket. Emporio Armani
dress. Louis Vuitton
boots. Christian Louboutin
jacket. CHANEL
top + skirt. Yohji Yamamoto
shoes. Christian Louboutin
earrings. Swarovski
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This Schön! 48 digital cover story is produced by
photography. Annabelle Foucher
fashion. Noémie Fourmeau
talent. Zoë Bleu in Valentino
casting. Alabama Blonde @ Strike the Blonde Casting
hair. Alexis Mercier
make up. Aurelie Dehecq
fashion assistant. Fatima Mouici
words. Mike Furey
