Chanel Jacket Help, Please!
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ZARA has some absolutely nice tweed jackets.
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Who makes Chanel's tweeds? 
I'm sure that I could find a nice tweed on a day trip to Scotland and have the local dressmakers knock up an imitation Chanel suit...
I'm sure that I could find a nice tweed on a day trip to Scotland and have the local dressmakers knock up an imitation Chanel suit...Just get some from Harris island.Originally posted by PrinceOfCats@Jun 13th, 2004 - 4:01 pm
Who makes Chanel's tweeds?
The VERY best nubbly silk-wool tweeds were made in thr 60s and 70s by Nicky Sekers , a Hungarian emigre who had a textile mill , somewhere in the north of England /Scotland .
He also made superb furnishing /curtain fabrics , as when I moved into my present house , I pushed the boat out , and hab nubbly slubbed ' silk' Sekers fabric curtains for every window .
Recently I had some new ones made , although the originals are perfect , except that the cotton linings had degraded .
The curtain maker advised me to have them relined , as to equal the quality , I would have to pay £60 a metre to meet the quality !!!
Sekers is now dead , and his firm has been subsusumed into a big conglomerate , but his couture fabrics , as used by CHANEL were awesome and had to be seen to be appreciated . He did have a venture into high fashion , backing a Brazilian designer as head of a Paris couture house in the 60s/70s , but as the designer was a real ' looker ' who unfortunately did not have the staying power to last , I feel it was a case of the misguided things people do for ' love ' , rather like Karl Lagerfeld's and Chanel's backing fot Isaak Mizrahi in the 80s/90s that fell apart when sales were not up to scratch , and Karla no doubt had moved on to his next ' Amour ' .
It's touches like the quality of fabric , plus little lead weights concealed in seams , etc etc , that make for the astronomical prices for the CHANEL suits .
Whether men will be prepared to shell out £3000 for a Chanel jacket , remains to be seen , as we will know whether Karl Lagerfeld's rather self indulgent gesture of making the suits in larger sizes to attract a certain number of men , proves to be valid when the clothes hit the shops in late July / early August .
KIT B)
He also made superb furnishing /curtain fabrics , as when I moved into my present house , I pushed the boat out , and hab nubbly slubbed ' silk' Sekers fabric curtains for every window .
Recently I had some new ones made , although the originals are perfect , except that the cotton linings had degraded .
The curtain maker advised me to have them relined , as to equal the quality , I would have to pay £60 a metre to meet the quality !!!
Sekers is now dead , and his firm has been subsusumed into a big conglomerate , but his couture fabrics , as used by CHANEL were awesome and had to be seen to be appreciated . He did have a venture into high fashion , backing a Brazilian designer as head of a Paris couture house in the 60s/70s , but as the designer was a real ' looker ' who unfortunately did not have the staying power to last , I feel it was a case of the misguided things people do for ' love ' , rather like Karl Lagerfeld's and Chanel's backing fot Isaak Mizrahi in the 80s/90s that fell apart when sales were not up to scratch , and Karla no doubt had moved on to his next ' Amour ' .
It's touches like the quality of fabric , plus little lead weights concealed in seams , etc etc , that make for the astronomical prices for the CHANEL suits .
Whether men will be prepared to shell out £3000 for a Chanel jacket , remains to be seen , as we will know whether Karl Lagerfeld's rather self indulgent gesture of making the suits in larger sizes to attract a certain number of men , proves to be valid when the clothes hit the shops in late July / early August .
KIT B)
my problem with zara is that the price jacks up in Canada while it's still high street in the UK/Europe. I'm not going to pay 200 for a Zara jacket. I mean it's a great imitation but it's only Zara for crying out loud. 
