Karl Lagerfeld on Tuesday celebrated the story of French fashion house Chanel
Store 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 2013,
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 woc
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 (Chanel
Price) 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 woc … like the low-waisted
dresses,” she said.“Karl makes everything look very wearable. I found it all
extraordinary,” she added.
Vanessa Paradis was chanel
handbags usa 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 chanel bags saks .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 Bags
2012 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”.French fashion house chanel bags saks is
touting the history of its jewelry collections via the third chapter of the
Inside Chanel video series.Chapter three titled “Chanel and the Diamond” tells
the story of how Gabrielle Chanel revolutionized the world of high jewelry when
she introduced the “Bijoux de Diamants” diamond collection. This is the third
video that shows the history of chanel 2012
innovations in the Inside Chanel series.“This approach provides a tasteful view
of Chanel’s history, but more importantly, its success throughout the years,”
said Dalia Strum, president of Dalia Inc., New York.“The brand is able to
visually story-tell how it has withstood the test of time with its iconic
timeline through these videos,” she said.“This site will create additional value
for Chanel as they increase the content provided to viewers excited to advocate
and support the brand as well as the potential to engage about these relevant
topics.”Ms. Strum is not affiliated with chanel usa, but
agreed to comment as an industry expert.The diamond chanel bags saks and the
Diamond video runs more than three minutes long and details the history of the
Bijoux de Diamants collection. The video begins with a white screen and a quote
from Ms.
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