Chloé S/S 11 Paris

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[mikeijames]

seriously, the outfit she wears bears more resemblance to chloe as we know it than anything we saw on the runway.

 

[Squizree]

The shoes are TRAGIC!

 

[isa.b.elle.]

^the bags look quite tragic as well...

 

[Label Basher]

I feel like after seeing more pics that there must have been heaps of pictures of Miuccia up on her mood board.

 

[foreverandnone]

Chloe is the designer that proves you don't have to be over the top to create a great collection!

 

[foreverandnone]

There no HQs yet?

 

[Laritournelle]

The only things I truely love are the bags and the leather pieces a la Céline. It definitely has a 90's minimalism vibe to it which is not bad but it's boring to the extreme. It feels very controlled and not girly at all which is quite the opposite of what a Chloé girl is.

 

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October 4, 2010, 1:41 pm
Chloé’s Silent Spring

By CATHY HORYN

On days when there are shows in the tent in the Tuileries garden, you expect to cross the hard, pebbled ground, wedge your way through the rigid crowd of onlookers and standing-ticket holders, and see something quite different once the show starts. Today, however, at Chloé, the models looked older and more world-wise this time. With their buns and ballet flats, in their streamlined coat dresses and plain white cotton dresses, they looked like young ladies who study dance or music. That is, they looked like an ideal.

Hannah MacGibbon eliminated the collegiate-sporty bits this season; gone were the capes, loafers and denim. This time the palette was cream, black and different skin tones, used mainly for leotards and chiffon or tulle pleated skirts with matching shorts and ballet flats, some in ruby red. (The other shoe was a low gold-heel sandal with beige or white straps rising up the ankle.) It was a tranquil mood far away from Joan Jett and punk. She showed a number of long-sleeve cream dresses slit open over shorts, with the spare gold-heel sandals. More graceful than starkly minimalist, the collection captured a more subdued Chloé.

nytimes

 

[Laritournelle]

HQs Part 1



source: style.it

 

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HQs Part 2



source: style.it

 

[Laritournelle]

HQs Part 3

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source: style.it

 

[almudena]

It feels very controlled and not girly at all which is quite the opposite of what a Chloé girl is.

I see this statement gets repeated a lot here, and it's not without merit, but I have to say that I feel this is no longer applicable as criticism, since the "girly Chloé girl" has ceased to exist for a number of years now already. The label has moved on.
One could even claim that the old Chloé girl's descendants have recently moved to Isabelle Marant's stand. Price wise too.

Today's Chloé woman (=customer) is an different one, a way bigger spender (in clothes that is, bags which is another mega source of revenue for the brand cost about the same as in Philo's time), a more mature one and more demure one if I might add, a huge focus of today's Chloé customer expectations falling on quality, understated luxury and subtle femininity. The same customer of Phoebe Philo of today's, in Céline, who herself has also taken her distance from her older trademark image too.

 

[chloehandbags]

Today's Chloé woman (=customer) is an different one, a way bigger spender (in clothes that is, bags which is another mega source of revenue for the brand cost about the same as in Philo's time)

The ones that are made in Italy don't!

That's another thing - they've moved much of the leather good production to cheaper countries and yet, are still charging more.

Not to mention that they doubled, or tripled, in price from about 2002 to 2007, whilst quality often declined somewhat.

 

[foreverandnone]

yay hqs! thank you!

 

[disco54]

seriously, the outfit she wears bears more resemblance to chloe as we know it than anything we saw on the runway.

lmaoooooooo i was thinking the same thing hahaha

 

[almudena]

The ones that are made in Italy don't!

That's another thing - they've moved much of the leather good production to cheaper countries and yet, are still charging more.

Not to mention that they doubled, or tripled, in price from about 2002 to 2007, whilst quality often declined somewhat.

Hmmm, so there are different Paratys and Marcies, made in Italy and not? I didn't realise that.
Because their prices at least here are not far from that of the Paddigtons and Silverados back in their days.

 

[disco54]

Let's not get carried away, now - Paulo did not respect the aesthetic of the house, he just tried to make Chloe into another Marni.

I would say this is very disperate - some of it is absolutely awful (dentist's shirt, shorts and a chiffon overskirt, anyone?) and/or completely house-innapropriate; but some of it is fairly good and very (or sufficiently) Chloe-like.

Problem is, the bad drags down the good...

What it's really lacking, though, is any sense of fun, or opulence.

A/W '09 was, by far, her best season, IMHO, as it had a mix of the more Chloe elements here, with more softly opulent pieces.

If that season didn't sell very well, it wasn't for the most part due to the design, IMO, it was due to a combination of the economy and recent Chloe prices, which (on a like-for-like basis) have much more than doubled (and have almost tripled in the UK!), over the last seven, or so, years.

However nice it may be, £410 is a lot of money to pay for a tasselled scarf, when the equivalent would have probably 'only' cost you about £150 five years ago (at the height of Phoebe's powers).

Yeah we both wanted Paul out at that time , Yeah it was too Marni but this is too Calvin Klein meets Celine . Your right the prices are like ridiculous now , I dont recall them being so expensive back in 2003-2004 during the height of Chloe.