Discussion: Who Should Be The Creative Director of Chanel?

[jssy4eva]

I know this is unlikely to happen, but they should just do guest designers every season for a few years. It would be interesting to see how each designer would interpret Chanel and it would create so much buzz around each collection.

I mostly say this so we can see Chanel x Donatella

 

[PDFSD]

I love how goofy Italian designers are. It warms my heart.

there is a italian word for it but not going to say it but it translates into just tacky behavior :-)

 

[tourbillions]

Somewhere out there is a designer working on his first chanel collection. Laughing at all the guesses and rumours. Obviously its my current fave, filippo. Going back to his margiela roots and working on the HC

 

[StylishCynic]

This is a fantasy –but could you imagine the hysteria if the following headline were published on WWD:

MARTIN MARGIELA LEAVES RETIREMENT TO LEAD CHANEL

 

[KoV]

Marc as a candidate seems so absurd to me. I can't.

That’s why I want it to happen! It would be a big swing.

 

[MagFan]

I know this is unlikely to happen, but they should just do guest designers every season for a few years. It would be interesting to see how each designer would interpret Chanel and it would create so much buzz around each collection.

I mostly say this so we can see Chanel x Donatella

She was part of that Karl/Chanel tribute US Vogue cover story. Isn't this enough?

vogue.com via kov

 

[helmutnotdead]

This is a fantasy –but could you imagine the hysteria if the following headline were published on WWD:

MARTIN MARGIELA LEAVES RETIREMENT TO LEAD CHANEL

I’d f*cking ***********

 

[Lola701]

This is a fantasy –but could you imagine the hysteria if the following headline were published on WWD:

MARTIN MARGIELA LEAVES RETIREMENT TO LEAD CHANEL

I mean, in his movie, he didn’t said that he was completely done with fashion…

 

[jeanclaude]

Helmut Lang leaves retirement to lead Chanel sounds better to me.

 

[Lola701]

Helmut Lang leaves retirement to lead Chanel sounds better to me.

Isn’t that too much of a big gap?
Weirdly, I have never been interested or even imagine a return from him to fashion.
Not that I don’t think he has anything to bring but because for me he was too specific for his time and a certain era. And for him to be relevant, he would totally needs to be very different from what we expect from him.

Margiela was kind of a « brouilleur de piste ». He was everything at the same time and allowed himself to be totally different from his past. There’s something more gradual, slower in Lang’s process and body of work.

 

[jeanclaude]

Isn’t that too much of a big gap?
Weirdly, I have never been interested or even imagine a return from him to fashion.
Not that I don’t think he has anything to bring but because for me he was too specific for his time and a certain era. And for him to be relevant, he would totally needs to be very different from what we expect from him.

Margiela was kind of a « brouilleur de piste ». He was everything at the same time and allowed himself to be totally different from his past. There’s something more gradual, slower in Lang’s process and body of work.

Nah, it´s just because I love Lang. But I can see him more fit for Chanel than Margiela, as his clothes were wearable and contemporary (for that time). I cannot picture a deconstructed Chanel, à la Margiela, to be honest...

 

[TianCouture]

Actually Margiela at Chanel is kind of genius. The accessories alone would be super desirable.

 

[avonlea002]

All this waiting and guessing makes me sad because I know that we will never get someone like Karl. Creatives these days just don't posses this type of knowledge and wit.

 

[blueorchid]

I feel like someone needs to make a spreadsheet regarding all the rumours and calculate who's "left" in the running. It's getting to be too much.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

How about no more speculating and making up stuff and just wait and see what happens

 

[KoV]

How about no more speculating and making up stuff and just wait and see what happens

If you’re not here for the rumors (and the nastiness)


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[Lola701]

Nah, it´s just because I love Lang. But I can see him more fit for Chanel than Margiela, as his clothes were wearable and contemporary (for that time). I cannot picture a deconstructed Chanel, à la Margiela, to be honest...

Margiela wasn’t only about deconstruction though but I get what you are saying.
I see Margiela like an iconoclast, a bit like Karl. That’s why I find it interesting.

I remember that at Balenciaga, they wanted Helmut Lang in the 90s. Nicolas designed his first collection knowing that Helmut would join and it never happened but I think that is a connection I would have loved because Helmut had an interesting approach to volumes.

But it’s almost science fiction at this point.

As long as it’s not Slimane, I think I would be fine with the designer anyway. Virginie was the worst that could have happened to the brand. She was for Chanel was Olivier Lapidus was for Lanvin, Lindsay for Ungaro, Kim Jones for Fendi..etc.

 

[blueorchid]

Virginie was the worst that could have happened to the brand

Don’t tempt fate!! Things can always get worse!

 

[susseinmcswanny]

If you’re not here for the rumors (and the nastiness)

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I'm just trying to show people you don't always have to perform a divination in the chile tea crumbs. The news will be here soon inshallah