Karl Lagerfeld on Tuesday celebrated the story of French fashion house Chanel
Price Increase in a show set around a huge globe showing how the label has
grown from a single boutique in the seaside town of Deauville to a global brand
with a presence in hundreds of cities. Blasts of Tchaikovsky filled Paris’s vast
Grand Palais for the opening of the show attended by a string of famous faces
including Princess Caroline of Monaco, model Milla Jovovich, photographer Mario
Testino and actresses Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Paradis.“It’s very simple.
One hundred years ago Chanel opened its first boutique at Deauville, today 100
years after there are 300″ outlets worldwide, Lagerfeld told us on the
penultimate day of Paris fashion week.After the Deauville shop opened in 1913,
founder Coco chanel woc,
who died in 1971, opened another boutique at Biarritz in 1915.Today the label’s
300 outlets include 185 boutiques in cities such as Sao Paulo, Calgary, New
Delhi, Istanbul and Brisbane.“Wherever you see a flag there’s a Chanel shop,”
said Lagerfeld pointing to the rotating 40-foot- (12-metre-) high globe.“I can
be very happy and pleased because when I started there were three or four 30
years ago, so it’s not that bad,” he said, adding however that the main credit
was due to the company.“I am there to do (this) it’s part of my job, it’s not an
ego trip. They (woc chanel)
played the game, they invested, developed…,” he said.Lagerfeld’s autumn/winter
2013/14 ready-to-wear collection featured knitwear, short wool suits and column
dresses teamed with “double” boots comprising a second legging-type element
extending over the knee.
“It’s chic sexy, I think, discreet sexy, it’s not obvious, it’s not sex shop
sexy,” he said, explaining that the boots gave “balance and proportion” to the
look.Lagerfeld added that he loved knitwear and column dresses which he said
made women look “tall and slender”.Reacting after the show, Chastain said she
“loved everything” about the collection especially the way Lagerfeld was able to
combine elegance and romance.“Many pieces were quintessential Coco chanel
handbags like the low-waisted dresses,” she said.“Karl makes everything look
very wearable. I found it all extraordinary,” she added.Vanessa Paradis was
equally impressed.“I loved it,” she said. “The show amazed me.”Meanwhile,
fashion watchers were on Tuesday still unsure how to react to Saint Laurent
designer Hedi Slimane’s young, grungy collection presented on Monday evening.The
designer, famed for his pencil-thin skinny tailoring, divided the fashion
industry with his first women’s wear collection for Saint Laurent last
October.Trade journal Women’s Wear Daily on Tuesday said it understood the
company wanted Slimane to capture a younger clientele with a more youthful
look.And it noted the much-anticipated collection’s use of expensive clothes to
express a “down-market attitude”.Retailers who had loved his debut collection
would love this one too, it said.But it added: “Is playing a cutesy,
disaffected-youth hand enough to propel the house of Saint Laurent into today’s
luxury stratosphere — especially if the targeted air space is that in which chanel woc
price and Dior reside?”On Twitter, one woman called it “luxury grunge”,
while another said “a bit disconcerted by the Slimane show, seductive but light
years away from Mr Saint Laurent’s style”. For almost 30 years, Karl Lagerfeld
has helmed French fashion empire Chanel, taking the brand’s trademark
utilitarian tweed suits and spinning them into outlandish and glamorous
fripperies. The Kaiser’s personal style, however, is mechanical in its vampiric
piousness. Clad exclusively in black and white, with a high-collared dress
shirt, dark sunglasses, fingerless gloves, a white ponytail, and a glittering
bauble of some kind, the designer has cultivated an extreme signature look.1.
Shirt by Prada, $4902. 3 station black sun necklace by Eddie Borgo, $3153. 10
strand necklace by Giles & Brother, $420 4. Sunglasses by Chanel, $3805. Tie
by Tom Ford, $2456. Cufflinks by Asprey, $3,2007. Conduite gloves by Hermès,
$630 8. Belt by Louis Vuitton, $655 Images from chanel us“The
Little Black Jacket” global exhibition are showing in seven cities.
Photographers, designers, friends, and muses fêted Karl Lagerfeld at Balthazar
following the New York City debut.
Click here to see the photos. WELSH designer Jayne Pierson has labelled Karl
Lagerfeld a “bully” after he laid into yet another high-profile woman’s
looks.The controversial chief designer at chanel bags
was talking about the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, last week when he
launched into a bizarre verbal attack on her sister, Pippa.“On the other hand,
her sister struggles,” said the outspoken 78-year-old, after praising Kate’s
“nice silhouette”.“I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her
back,” presumably referring to her much praised derrière at the royal
wedding.”The acid comments came six months after he called singer Adele “too
fat”.In 2009, Lagerfeld said Heidi Klum was “too heavy” and “had a big bust”,
which meant that she could never be a catwalk model.Carmarthenshire designer
Jayne told WM his rants sound like they come from a man fiercely protected from
the “real world” by hangers-on.“Karl Lagerfeld is about the same age as my dad,”
says Jayne, who is preparing to show at London and Paris fashion weeks and has
dressed singers like La Roux.“And I think he’s beginning to turn into someone
who is just so, so out of date.“What he said about Adele was just unbelievable
and now he’s done it again.“You can’t treat people like that. It’s verging on
bullying.“It’s just a horrible thing to say about someone, it’s so
inappropriate.”Lagerfeld’s collections wow the industry every season, but
increasingly he’s becoming as synonymous with his insensitive rants as he is
with jaw-dropping couture.And it’s unlikely Kate, who the rest of the fashion
world clamour to dress, will ever be seen in chanel bags saks
after the man at its helm so publicly insulted her sister.“It’s a shame as he’s
so utterly amazing at what he does,” adds Jayne.“He’s such an amazing creative,
it’s really sad that he feels the need to say things like that. It’s
pointless.“He’s fantastically eccentric as all the best designers are, but
somebody needs to tell him he needs to stop with the insults.“It suggests he
doesn’t get out much. Sure he’s surrounded by people, but they’re ‘yes’ people.
He needs to get out into the real world, around real people.”
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