Chanel S/S 10 Paris

[KKnardi]

a lovely concept and it looks very free spirited. but i don't know if i like everything on the girls... it feels a bit lame.

 

[Versace-Goddess]

Amazing collection, one of his best in a long time. I love the dresses.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

**no model talk. please see pinned rules for this forum**
I think Karl couldn't have been more obvious with this show if he tried. But what's not to like, the Petit Trianon always works, when you lack imagination the XVIII is always there to help you. Over and over again...

 

[baguette]

The scene is also inspired by Lily Allen's music video while she was singing along?

Lily Allen Not fair

 

[Flashbang]

a lot of stuff scream to me very french. vive la France !
but i sincerely cannot really put the codes on ...
is that just a show to prove Lagerfeld also supports the milk producers (we're having a sort of Milk Producers and Farmers crisis, here in France) ?

is that an Hölderlin hommage ?

I really cannot see what's going on there.

oh and chanel is like vogue us. don't complain, it'll never change. you just have to accept it for what it is and never expect too much !

I think this will help

Marie Antoinette's Petit Hameau at her Petit Trianon inspires Chanel Runway Show!

Twitter.com/MarieGossip

 

[ilaughead]

Cathy Horyn says:

As Karl Lagerfeld pointed out after the Chanel show today, “I spent part of my childhood on a farm.” Well, he’s come along way from the family farm, no? Inside the Grand Palais, Chanel built its version of Marie Antoinette’s barn, with a straw mound that contained a hidden door for the models to come and go in their natural-looking tweeds, clogs, egg basket purses, and lovely white crocheted outfits with French blue and red flowers. The barn-yard show, with Tammy Wynette on the soundtrack and Lily Allen performing live, was completely charming; the clothes were great, too.

 

[BerlinRocks]

i think it's pretty wrong to look at the collection with the Marie-Antoinette cliché.

but perhaps it is wrong to just see the evocation of a come-back to nature. something more champêtre ...
and i like to think the set is also an hommage to the milk producers.
fashion can be social oriented sometime too.

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

 

[BerlinRocks]

I think this will help

Twitter.com/MarieGossip

oh ok. so i guess it is said into the press file.

well i, for once, wanted to see something more intelligent coming from such a smart person, as karl claimed he is.

 

[mrsjamesdean]

I don't like the show has a whole.
For me,I hate the fact Karl always has to exaggerate the catwalk some might say its creative but for me it over shadows the clothes that's why I like simple white catwalks to make the clothes talk....Anyways there is definitely new variations of the classic Chanel suit that I wished I have.

 

[mistress_f]

most of the clothes are beutiful, some of the dresses are soo amazing but wtf the more 'western/country' inspired outfits are sooo bad. like plain ugly (especially the pants one)

 

[csmboy]

Lily Allen is where she belongs.....in a barn......

 

[ilaughead]

Uh-oh. It appears I'm going to start babbling right about now.

It sounds like (especially from that interview) that Karl is just having fun right now, and I have to say, please continue, Mr. Kaiser sir!

Interesting how, while some other houses are playing it very, very safe since this whole economic thing started with pretty frill-less collections, Karl went the opposite route, getting a lot more ornate than before. But unlike, say, the Paris-Moscou collection, this is really light and young.The pieces may be heavily embroidered, but they aren't visually heavy. I can see that jacket Freja's wearing in the finale in a VP editorial already, and if the tag was cut out and it was sold as Balmain, Emmanuelle would be in it in a second.

It's a well-known fact that I'm a huge fan of Chanel/Karl, but in all honesty I love probably 90% of the pieces here. (Not the clogs, but I'll take those as a cutesy styling choice rather than a serious statement. For now, at least.) There are a few whorish looks, but that's to be expected, and unfortunately I can see them being big-sellers. A few more suits would have been nice, because Karl does skirt suits like no other, but the suits that were shown are beyond lovely.

I see the Marie Antoinette idea, but it seems that Karl isn't too keen on labeling it that way. I wonder why? I really wouldn't mind a few more 18th century inspired jackets, though, but I suppose Karl didn't want to take the idea all the way out there. Vermont really has made an impact on him! And surprisingly, I'm enjoying it!

Something I love about Karl's work at Chanel is the ability to trace his ideas through his collections. The ballooned shoulders in the first couple of looks, for example. I remember seeing them on a white petaled shirt in spring '07, and then again, modified a little in the spring couture show the next year. (A re-reinterpretation is on that scary looking model toward the end of the show.) And then this season he used a much more structured version at his own label. The Marie Antoinette idea was also used before (spring '05 couture) but look just how different Karl has developed it here! He may work in a very defined aesthetic, but somehow he can present the same idea over and over without looking overly derivative.

Menswear-wise, this seems to be a pretty personal collection, mostly from those fantastic black pants so similar to the pair that Karl used to wear all the time. This season he's been pretty self-referential, and it's really paying off. Karl does after all dress as well, if not better (some of the time) than he designs.
expecting

The set: probably the most surprising thing I've ever woken up to see. I love the standard white Chanel look Karl has always done, but it's refreshing to not see some giant versions of Chanel codes (jackets, bows, charms, perfumes, etc.) again. Also, I'm done with white this season, so this was a nice change. (The clothes, too! Nice to see some creams and off-whites!)

I didn't even talk about the clothes this season that much. But I'll cut it here. If you read this far, I'm impressed!

 

[Les_Sucettes]

and i like to think the set is also an hommage to the milk producers.
fashion can be social oriented sometime too.

I hope you are being sarcastic there...

And of course it's the Marie Antoinette cliché, he could not even avoid the XVIII inspired jackets and trousers. If someone presented that to me as a costume i would certainly would not doubt what it was meant to be. But of course it cannot be another Marie Antoinette inspired collection, that is overdone, it has to be a return to nature, a childhood farm Karl Knew, a farm with people in the XVIII century luxury clothes but not the one of Marie Antoinette, and Lara is not even meant to resemble a milkmaid frolocking with some royals, it's just my anglo-saxon imagination that can't see further... ( and i'm not even anglo-saxon).

 

[sobigsobig]

Applause, Chanel, nice to Mr.Lagerfeld.

 

[Boomer]

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...

 

[MMendoza]

Excellent Show, very funny, Lily's Music adhoc!!!!

the dress in Karlie and Sasha!!!!!

The handbags!!! are extremely cute!!!

 

[sethii]

a lot of stuff scream to me very french. vive la France !
but i sincerely cannot really put the codes on ...
is that just a show to prove Lagerfeld also supports the milk producers (we're having a sort of Milk Producers and Farmers crisis, here in France) ?

is that an Hölderlin hommage ?

I really cannot see what's going on there.

!

I posted a video interview with Karl here #179 Maybe this will help

 

[simple_elegance]

wow, i'm really loving this. it's been a while since i've really been pulled into a Chanel collection.

 

[Zazie]

I hope you are being sarcastic there...

And of course it's the Marie Antoinette cliché, he could not even avoid the XVIII inspired jackets and trousers. If someone presented that to me as a costume i would certainly would not doubt what it was meant to be. But of course it cannot be another Marie Antoinette inspired collection, that is overdone, it has to be a return to nature, a childhood farm Karl Knew, a farm with people in the XVIII century luxury clothes but not the one of Marie Antoinette, and Lara is not even meant to resemble a milkmaid frolocking with some royals, it's just my anglo-saxon imagination that can't see further... ( and i'm not even anglo-saxon).

ohh la la...mais non! B) Tiens! We all know no self-respecting REAL peasant girls would be seen gathering strawberries without pearl-encrusted jackets. Off with your head!

 

[fashionista-ta]

Lily Allen, Christmas decorations in October, Farm houses, clogs.. why do I feel like crying?

Why do I feel like mooing?