Chanel F/W 10.11 Paris

[superbeautiful]

I hope the fur boots are a joke.

 

[TPMorgan]

this is a Chanel-Ugg collection or something...horrible !

 

[pipoca]

I think it's a beautiful collection.

 

[mikeijames]

it's true: sometimes i wonder what karl lagerfeld can do next to keep chanel at the front of our minds in a world where we see hundreds of shows over several weeks fed to us by every media from the new york times to twitter. well, importing an iceberg from scandanavia, soaking a bunch of furs, and throwing in a new male fascination has certainly done the trick. within six months, he's given us shanghai, he's given us petit hameau, he's given us space-age couture; with this collection, he's given us more controversy than we can handle, more concept than any other design house of this size, and more real fashion than most cough up given twice the time. seriously, what would fashion do without people like karl lagerfeld who have the ability to snap the neck of the world and make it pay attention to this crazy world of fashion we live in. now, i wonder which girlfriend-of-a-russian-oligarch will be the first to commission those fur pants in sable?

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[Donatello89]

ok forget about ecologic spirit...ice has been imported from Sweden by plane...plane = pollution like nothing else. great...

 

[Boomer]

^ Mike, that is a most insightful post...!

 

[thiago:)]

some looks are actually beautiful - that dress on anna de rijk for example. the rest is crap.

 

[honeycombchild]

I very much doubt it would have come by plane.. a glacier that size... isn't it more logical that it came by boat? Especially considering the actual weight of it.

Easier to keep the temperature stable and such that way also.

 

[tigerrouge]

I still maintain that it wasn't a real iceberg - the PR story is there to get people talking. Not only do you have the logistic headache of getting it to its destination, the amount of movement and temperature fluctuation it would be exposed to would render it structurally unstable, you wouldn't be able to vouch for its integrity - and you cannot have something like that so close to a crowd of people.

I'm sure there are individuals who'd consider being crushed to death by an iceberg at a Chanel show some kind of fitting end, but in real life, there are going to be regulations and insurance restrictions.

Perhaps it's water transported from whatever region it was, which has then been refrozen and sculpted to this particular design in a workshop nearby - and that's how they can technically describe it as an 'iceberg from wherever'. We're given the idea of an iceberg travelling in majesty across the sea and land, when really, it arrived in the form of 4,000 canisters and got put together by workmen who usually spend their time doing skating rink maintenance.

 

[girlalamode]

This collection is hillarious! I just can't get my head around it.

 

[honeycombchild]

I think at the end of the day when it comes to Karl and Chanel, anything is possible. Even shipping an ice berg in.

They spend millions on these shows. Who knows. Real or not, it certainly looked real at least!

 

[before]

Is Chanel the first to use an iceberg in a show? I remember it was used a couple of seasons ago, am not sure...

 

[Escale Cherie II]

I really don't know what to think I hate the fur personally so much: It's unethical to me, looks extremely ugly and seems so inconvenient with water (rain, snow, etc.). I really like some of the dresses, though oddly short, and I love the presentation.

 

[honeycombchild]

^ The fur us all faux-fur. So it's about as ethical as we're ever going to see it.

 

[JeanAvril]

This definitely took Chanel to a whole new level of gimmicks, but other than that, it's nothing special. Tweeds and wet faux fur. Whoop di do. I enjoyed the leather and knits though.

 

[Escale Cherie II]

^^Thanks for that info, I always thought of karl to be a fur defender. Anyway, I still think, especially when it's so long like this, that the look is ugly and inconvenient.

I think at the end of the day when it comes to Karl and Chanel, anything is possible. Even shipping an ice berg in.

Probably, which I think it kinda cool B)

 

[masquerade]

this is just so dumb. whether or not the iceberg is real, its dumb. its ridiculous to claim to be making a global warming statement while doing that. not that karl is anything less than ridiculous in anything else he does.

and seriously, no one in their right mind is going to walk around in fur pants. that is just fashion victimhood

 

[mikeijames]

^i'm not arguing with anything you're saying. however, if the world of fashion is willing to embrace everything from tennis ball shoulders to armadillo heels, i wouldn't put fur pants past them. i'm just saying: crazier things have happened in fashion.

 

[TianSoFine]

^And not every item in every collection is made for commercial purposes. If the fur pants aren't very successful (although I'm sure lots of people will buy them), some of the knits and tweeds and stunning dresses certainly will be.

 

[mikeijames]

^and let's not forget, chanel makes a mint from all of its other clothing collections, fragrance/beauty, accessories, etc. they wouldn't let him ship thirty tons of ice across a continent if they had any concerns about the stuff selling. any one of the bags from the runway will sell out just by virtue of this spectacle.

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