Chloé F/W 06.07 Paris

[The_Ida]

Poor girl. I blame the ridiciously tall and ugly shoes.

 

[JuiceMajor]

This is not good for Chloe!! Those shoes will be a hard sell now! Or at least comes with a health warning!

 

[Grill]

The shoes are hideous. I am liking the rest though despite the fact that it would appear to be very closely modeled on the spring/summer collection.

 

[fashionologie]

Team Effort Eases Chloe Upheaval

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The news in January that British designer Phoebe Philo was leaving Chloe to spend more time with her family sent a shudder through the world of fashion.

Industry fears were temporarily laid to rest on Saturday after the in-house design team, which is standing in for Philo until her replacement is named, sent out an autumn-winter ready-to-wear collection that upheld the label's reputation for subtle femininity.

Retailers and analysts have been worried that a change of direction could break the golden streak of the French house, which has seen sales soar since Philo a former assistant to Stella McCartney rose from obscurity to take the helm of the label in 2001.

Australian model Gemma Ward opened the show in a voluminous brown wool coat with large buttons, setting the tone for a sequence of prim schoolgirl separates that included smocked tunics and pinafore dresses in muted khaki, oatmeal and gray.

There was a Calvinist austerity to these loose linen dresses and oversized dungarees that was perfectly in tune with the mood of chaste sobriety sweeping the catwalks from New York to Paris.

That does not mean next fall is all sackcloth and ashes. A belted brown cashmere coat with a drawstring hem would work well in any young woman's wardrobe, while the ample cropped jackets worn with swingy skirts would look just as good over a pair of jeans.

A rare round of applause greeted an Empire-line dress in paper-thin white leather with cutout laser patterns of large flowers. The platform shoes and oversized leather totes should keep Chloe accessories flying off store shelves.

"I think the team did an amazing job because they managed to continue something that is totally coherent with the identity of the brand," said front-row guest Nathalie Rykiel, who designs the Sonia Rykiel label with her mother.

"There was a lightness, a freshness, the shoes were amazing and there were very, very charming dresses which one wants to wear," she said.
Backstage after the show, in-house designer Yvan Mispelaere one of three who took a bow at the end of the show insisted it was business as usual, though his grin betrayed a deep sense of relief.

"We just rolled up our sleeves and that's all, there was nothing very new or difficult, we continued to do our job," he said.

Mispelaere is rumored to be among the contenders for the top job, alongside rising designer Roland Mouret, whose va-va-voom Galaxy dress has been snapped up by celebrities including Scarlett Johansson and Victoria Beckham.

Others believe that Chloe will continue the tradition of having a young woman head up the house, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first collection by founder Gaby Aghion.

Rykiel said that women have a more pragmatic approach to design than men, because they wear the clothes themselves, but she added that gender should not play a role in choosing a replacement. "I think that talent has no gender," she said.

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[littlemissmagic]

i must say, i LOVE chloe's design team. first they pulled off the super-sexy fw05..and now this amazing collection that is both minimal and feminine? ahh i am in heaven................

 

[susie_bubble]

I love the shoes but it certainly does not bode well for us mere mortals if a professional catwalk model can't work them! Ah well........I'd still risk it with the chunky high heels than stilletos personally!

As for the clothes, it's a nice continuation of the S/S trends for grey, demure and slightly school-girl. The clothes aren't terribly inspired but I think they really work for Chloe and the design team have done well to continue Philo's approach and ethos for Chloe.

I'm also loving the hand held large totes that I'm seeing for F/W.

 

[Faith Akiyama]

I'm echoing the for Snejana's dress

 

[MUXU]

i want to see the video now...broken nose from falling on runway?..o_O..that must be a HARD fell
i like the dresses in post #3..the rest are..nah...
the shoes look nice..but they look uncomfy at the same time

 

[Faith Akiyama]

^Oh dear! Broken nose? I wonder who it was...

 

[Grill]

OMG the girl who fell was Jessica Stam!
Picture courtesy of catwalking.com

 

[Grill]

Just to show it was her poor thing!! Photo again same source as above.

 

[Grill]

For those of you worried about Jessica. Here she is again later on in the show. She obviously wasn't seriously hurt otherwise she wouldn't have been able to walk again on the runway so soon after (catwalking.com).

 

[shopping247]

pics are not showing up on this page of Stam and i get prompted for username and password, apparently from catwalk.com. can someone d/l the pics and post on the thread, rather than linking via url? TIA!

 

[wyatt.]

it's really gorgeous and simple, i wish there was a little element of surprise though. it's feeling very maxmara at the moment.
the shoes are great

 

[jml2]

poor stam! I hope no broken nose, I'd hate to see her gorgeous face ruined

 

[nanker_phledge]

I don't like it at all. It really looks Stella McCartney-ish to me , and I need colours , too much grey in there.I'm really really disappointed.

 

[Djavanjmiles]

The Chloe team sure can do just fine without phobe. So I like what I see so far.

 

[Diorling]

I was hoping for a new direction. I really hated the look Chloe was going in, fooofy dresses and really chunky cheap looking platforms and a shapeless leather sack.

 

[amor]

oh no...hate it when theres too much retraint in a season
poor jessica!!! hope shes alright.

 

[*Tmsta*]

Jessica must've been fine because she walked the runway again after she fell.

Credit: style.com

The collection didn't get a good review from the above source and I'm not surprised. There's some pieces I love the look of but there's so many that are just...so what?