Chanel Cruise 2013 Versailles

[CATO]

ADORABLE CC-beauty spot´s
UGLIFY plateau-sneaker.

 

[YoninahAliza]

I feel bad for the "Chanel girls" who are going to have to wear this collection. Poor Clemence Poesy and co, it's not a collection that's very pleasing to the eye.

 

[KKnardi]

Now when I see the looks in HQ, some of the outfits are really ravishing! delightful colours for summer...

 

[pivoslyakova]

now that i see it better, its not that bad as i thought tbh, colors are nice, and some patterns too... i love the purses but shoes are really ugly.. and i like the concept of the hairstyle but not how it actually looks... i think the idea is good but it doesnt work, i mean he could do it a lot better.

 

[Fabulyss]

It's obviously atrocious, but what's really sad is that it doesn't even look well-made anymore.

 

[Morphe]

The shapes are ugly and unflattering as always.
The shoes are terrible as always.
Some of the jackets are decent and the colours are lovely.
What's new?



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[ultramarine]

All I have to say is ...

image from tumblr

http://www.childbearinghip.com/page/26

 

[models_vlada]

God ! Karl is screaming loud for a change of the head designer at Chanel.

 

[Prairie]

facebook / Vogue Russia

 

[Chanelcouture09]

I don't entirely put the blame on Karl for this collection, some pieces are nice enough, I blame the stylist more than anything and I think the wigs are atrocious, I know they are meant to be 'fun' but they look cheap as opposed to their purpose.

They did the bob wigs far better for Haute Couture Fall Winter 2008/09 too.

 

[visualoptimism]

i think there are some pics missing from the hqs, is anyone able to get them hq from the vogue uk website? i am unsure how to do it. :-(

 

[Stereo_Flo]

Beauty | HQs

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[Rosary]

Sorry, but this collection is so ugly. Disappointing.

 

[blackkohl]

Fugly shoes! Oh man.

 

[KKnardi]

THE evening before François Hollande was sworn in as the first French socialist president in 17 years, fashion’s Sun King celebrated at Versailles.

Karl Lagerfeld inaugurated the Chanel cruise collection on Monday among the verdant trees and splashing fountains framing the French palace. The interseason collection had more frills and furbelows than Marie Antoinette might have jammed into her closets.

“Liberty, equality, frivolity” seemed to be Chanel’s message, as the models walked out in casual, often mannish clothes, but with tweed dripping rivulets of lace and flower-strewn jackets with portrait necklines. There was plenty of attitude in platform sneakers and circular straw hats that were matched by big panniers on a knickerbocker skirt.

“The image of France has been a little sad: the gray uniform of Europe,” Mr. Lagerfeld said afterward, sipping Diet Coke but letting his audience eat foes gras and cake. The chandelier-filled ephemeral party place seemed like an upgrade on the French queen’s private retreat, the Petit Trianon.
“The Enlightenment was the best thing that happened to Europe, not debating in Brussels,” continued Mr. Lagerfeld, comparing the cultural period following the dark medieval years to the European Union era.
“I wanted to give France back some lightness,” he said.

Fashion has an uncanny knack for acting as a bellwether of changing times. While designers have recently been focused on a streamlined minimalism (let’s call it “austerity chic”), the new call for stimulation in the economy seems to have revived that most particular of French words: “frivole.”

The front-row audience, which included the actresses Vanessa Paradis and Tilda Swinton and the style icon Inès de la Fressange, sitting in fountain-side cabins, could find modern charm in the clothes: skinny denim knickers or wide tweed pants in “bleu de France.” But they were decked out with gilded trimmings, knitted embroidery and ribbon bows. That decoration was festooned, too, on spiky hair that mirrored that of the actress Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

Even if fashion thrives on change, the frolicking froufrou set a new mood. It was a feast of embellishment, although, at its calmest, the Chanel show had the serene beauty of the surrounding classic statues, as when a dress with the skirt standing away from the body was sculptured with pleats.
Versailles has been recreated recently as a putrid, mosquito-infested palace in a new film, “Les Adieux à la Reine” ( “Farewell, My Queen”), featuring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette in her last days there.

Chanel’s version brought back the lighthearted Arcadian glamour of an age of Gallic grandeur. And who knows what Mr. Hollande, who celebrated his victory with an accordion rendition of Edith Piaf’s “Vie en Rose,” might have decided to say to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on his inaugural visit to Berlin?

Maybe that Ms. Merkel should lighten up and bring to a depressed Europe just a touch of frivolité?

Suzy Menkes, iht.com

 

[Psylocke]

I think the collection looks a tad less ridiculous in the press kit lookbook. Or maybe they just did a great job at picking some less hideous looks for it. I think the collection has potential to look great in editorials when styled nicely.


Chanel Cruise 2013 by Karl Lagerfeld




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[Modelo]

I'm a fan of Chanel but Lord that collection is a mess!!! A lot of the looks are totally unflattering, some look like costumes for a stage play with very few good pieces. I honestly think that Karl has run out of ideas and creativity and need to retire. He's old and doesn't know what modern is anymore. Those shoes...

 

[TianSoFine]

I really love this collection, it's my favourite Chanel collection in some time.

 

[Pradable]

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[Pradable]

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