The official Chanel website features behind the scenes footage and designs as well as interviews with Karl himself. It can be found here
Karl Lagerfeld’s exceptional Chanel
couture collection embodied the concept of the “incredible lightness of being”
in poetically handwoven cloth, and embroideries as light and magical as
thistledown.
The clothes had
a uniquely modern feeling as each look was matched with a pair of flat sneakers
(made by the custom shoemaker Massaro, naturally) in patchworks of fabrics and
embroidery—“It gives it a different attitude,” explained Karl—and during the
show, the girls were encouraged to run and skip down the grand horseshoe
staircase, suggesting something of the sense of liberating freedom that was Coco Chanel’s
great contribution to early-twentieth-century fashion. This is a lot different
from the tight restricting dresses and heels his girls are used to wearing
making it only possible to elegantly glide across the cat walk, this look gave
the models chance to experiment with their own walking techniques and feel free
while doing so, this collection has a glimpse of purity with a sparkle.
The palette was
pale and iridescent very spring summer—tweeds threaded with metallic,with a
dash of sorbet pastels.
There was then no surprise when Topshop brought
out their own answer to the couture collection, consisting of similar sorbet
colours and sparkle, below are the examples, I will do a polyvore post to
follow.
Shop the collection here
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