Chanel S/S 10 Paris

[Florecita86]

I think the setting is quite fun and really gets to the point of Karl's inspiration for the collection. Not my favorite collection for Chanel but it's not that horrible. I really hate the clog shoes and straw bags. I liked Freja and Baptiste's matching outfits All in all, not a bad collection, just not my favorite.

 

[ilaughead]

So, uh.. first person to post HQs of the set or some nice desktop-worthy wide shots gets some karma. Irresistible, I know.

 

[SGaspar]

WOAH. Only Lagerfeld can do this kind of thing and get away with it. And the clothes are absolutely amazing. I adore this. When I first saw the setting I thought this was going to be a bit of a disaster but then it's noooot!!! I just love this.

 

[fashionismydrug]

I think this collection is weak and the only reason people are flipping out about it is because it's Chanel. If it were any other designer people would talk about how lame and uninteresting the collection is and how gross the shoes are.

 

[Dona]

The white tights reminds me those from Nina Ricci

 

[KKnardi]

Chanel: Rustic Fantastic

PARIS — “Coco ècolo,” said Karl Lagerfeld to describe his romp-in-the-hay, eco-friendly Chanel collection that brought the house down — or should that be the wooden barn that was the backdrop of his smash hit show Tuesday?

This was rustic fantastic, an amalgam of all the fun and finesse that Mr Lagerfeld can bring to fashion. It had a sidelong glance at Marie Antoinette in the bouncy mini-crini dresses, worn by not-so-innocent models walking across the barnyard on flower-strewn clogs and toting raffia bags.

Imagine the young queen returning to her native Austria with all the frills and furbelows she had scooped up in Paris. That was the charm of a Tyrolean knit embroidered with poppies and cornflowers or the same flowers printed on a saucy little dress. Lace had a new, milkmaid-sweet perspective and what looked like gilded straw woven into the finale dress was a tour de force that alone would have deserved the swelling ovation.

But it was not enough that Prince sat front row, twirling a silver cane, or that Claudia Schiffer, whose modeling career started at Chanel, gasped, “It’s his best show ever.”

Up from the straw-strewn floor, through a trap door, came Lily Allen and a mock band, with the British singer belting out her upbeat music, just as the show itself moved to a sweet minor key with the exquisitely detailed evening dresses. The final “straw” was hilarious: two models and an elegant young man rolling in the hay, simulating what nature intended.

Mr. Lagerfeld reached with this collection the height of his powers in bringing Coco to a fresh place each season. But rather than the down-on-the-farm theme seeming like a gimmick, there was as much a feeling of a page turning as in the Chanel white-paper couture collection last year.

The green issue is a genuine concern for a new generation and even if placing high-end Chanel dresses in a country setting might seem like offering slices of Marie Antoinette’s proverbial cake, the designer caught a current moment.

And not since the banks busted their credit ratings has a runway collection expressed such a fashion joie de vivre and a dizzying desire to buy.

suzy menkes, iht.com/nytimes.com

 

[fashionista-ta]

I never thought Tammy Wynette would be Chanel's soundtrack

I quite like it, overall ... I like the full-skirted silhouette, I like the crochet work and the hessian ... finally something different from Chanel, and quite nice. There are several things here I wouldn't mind wearing ...

Perhaps somewhere, Marie Antoinette is amused ...

 

[ilaughead]

I think this collection is weak and the only reason people are flipping out about it is because it's Chanel. If it were any other designer people would talk about how lame and uninteresting the collection is and how gross the shoes are.

Interesting how many threads this season have posts just like this one.

 

[Boomer]

Interesting how many threads this season have posts just like this one.

I know! Evidently, we are all just label obsessed sheep, following the dictates of the designers and magazine editors..

Here's Style.com's take (where all the pics are up already, btw- some sort of record)!!

PARIS, October 6, 2009

By Sarah Mower

Chanel was up at cockcrow for a gigantic fashion romp in the hay. A huge barn had been conjured up in the center of the Grand Palais, and the models emerged from it, wheat ears clinging to their tousled blond Bardot beehives, straw stuck to their clothes, and a little smirk and stagger in their step as if just caught out at you-know-what. Naughty, naughty! Between them, the Chanel country coquettes managed to flirt their way around every rustic reference in Karl Lagerfeld's extensive repertoire of craft-y couture skills, from hopsack to basket weave and cane work to aprons, dirndls, peasant-y poppy prints, and fantastic wooden double-C clogs. It was a bumper harvest of everything that is chicly tattered, beribboned, and gloriously made about Chanel, as well as the season's sole experience to make the anxiety and earnestness around fashion evaporate, to make it seem like fantastic fun again.

Never mind the hay, Lagerfeld was on a roll. Digging into a theme can sometimes throw up some embarrassing puns, and the effort to be youthful has occasionally had off-beam results at Chanel. But with this collection, Lagerfeld's summing up of the season's tendencies—beige, ivory, and black; rough textures; transparency and lace—was spun into a collection so masterfully balanced between classicism and current fashion affairs that the whole thing felt delightfully sure-footed. The knack was that he didn't rush it—just let the thing keep bouncing out in a sustained variation of caramels, taupes, and ecrus, all logically adapted to the house's nubby tweed suits, frothy blouses, and fluttery chiffons. The editing of everything to short lengths looked sweet without being chichi—the test being that every teenage girl looked naturally at home in the little thigh-split skirts (that's what has happened to the bottom half of the Chanel suit), as well as in the mini-crinis and ruffled dance dresses.

Prince and Rihanna were competing for attention in the front row; there was a surprise turn from Lily Allen, who rose out of the floor on a hoedown platform to belt out a saltily worded country number; and at the end, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lara Stone, and Lagerfeld's constant companion, Baptiste Giabiconi, were literally rolling around in the hay together. And yet, remarkably, the clothes never became a sideshow. In a season when celebrities, concepts, and a lot of forgettable mediocrity have got in the way of seeing why luxury fashion should merit the price, this was a Chanel triumph.

 

[Bel Esprit]

Simply beautiful.

 

[Overdrive]

GENIUS ! the concept, the clothes, the models... I adore it ! BRILLIANT ! by the way... who is singing ?

 

[JordanB]

I actually quite like this collection and usually Chanel bores me.

 

[MulletProof]

Interesting how many threads this season have posts just like this one.

I know, when some people don't like something, it's impossible for them to acknowledge someone out there might actually appreciate it.. then again, there are many others who are already drooling over the collection before opening the thread.

I really loved the show.. I think it closed the season with a much needed dose of humor.. can't comment much on the clothes, not a big Chanel fan here.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

Oktoberfest?

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Some gorgeous pieces. I haven't liked a Chanel RTW collection since... F/W 07, I would say.
Some pieces are naff, as tradition, but a lot are wonderful - that creamy colour he began with I die for.
The final jacket is divine.

 

[classicalbang]

Collection - HQ



vogue.co.uk

 

[Street_a_Licious]

Freja's final jacket is lovely. and LOL at Baptiste getting a 3 some in the hay. with Freja of all people.

i like it

and look! smiling girls! NO FROWNS!

 

[classicalbang]

vogue.co.uk

 

[BerlinRocks]

Cathy Horyn says : ok obvisouly when you say farm in fashion world to an anglo-saxon, she thinks Marie-Antoinette.

Well, I'm Anglo-Saxon and I have no idea what she is talking about...

I said that .........
I edited my post after I read Cathy Horyn .......
should have made it more clear .....

 

[masquerade]

Wow, I actually love the clothes. I was very very scared when I saw the barn and the clogs, but the clothes are lovely, they don't need all the extra stuff. I am confused about what is on the models' legs though. They don't look like tights. Are they painted on faux tattoos, or garters or what?

edit: nvm, i see in the hqs they are painted on. i don't really get the purpose of that, but whatever