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Chanel Does Saint-Tropez
Lady Amanda Harlech
13 May 2010
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Chanel muse Lady Amanda Harlech turned reporter for VOGUE.COM this week to review Karl Lagerfeld's latest cruise collection for the fashion house, presented in Saint-Tropez.
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KARL LAGERFELD created the perfect resort collection in the perfect setting. Saint-Tropez is close to all our hearts as a Mediterranean ideal dream of a village perched in the green of the Var. It has hosted the wildest parties - whether it was Coco herself with Misia and Colette, Picasso and the Murphys, Diaghilev and Le Train Bleu or Bardot, Vadim, Delon and Donna Jourdan, Francoise Hardy, Birkin and Bisset.
When he has an idea for a show,
Chanel pulls all the stops out - the attention to the grand scale and tiniest detail makes the event unforgettable and more real in fact than the real Saint-Tropez.
In his film
Remember Now, Pascal Greggory stars as a louche playboy returning to Saint-Tropez after 30 years. The message is clear - Saint-Tropez is where the wild and the beautiful play in the summer. And the collection evoked exactly that desirable easy luxury as Natasha, Abbey, Anya and Freya strolled down the harbour in front of Cafe Senequier, lipstick-pink sandals in their hands, their printed chiffon long dresses and undone hair gently blown by the evening breeze.
But this collection was begun a year ago; maquettes, visits to Saint-Tropez to work out the logistics of a backstage next door to Senequier and a tent further down the harbour for hair and make-up, choosing the five river boats and their white-clad captains to ferry the models across the golden sea to disembark at the start of the show.
Michel Gaubert's Proustian reworking of memorable Saint-Tropez anthems, which also featured in the film, gave the collection edge and impetus and exploded into a new reality with Georgia May Jagger closing the show on the back of Sebastien Jondeau's motor bike! She was also the model for Karl's dossier de presse, shot a week earlier in a car studio outside Paris and using the new Rolls that also plays a role in Karl's film.
The press and VIPs were flown in despite the latest volcanic cloud - Heidi Mount was one of the models who had to suffer a seven-hour car journey from Barcelona to get to the hotel for her accessorisation. Diane Kruger and Anna Mouglalis, Gaspard Ulliel and of course the divine Vanessa Paradis all came to the screening of Karl's film in the Place des Lices and then, courted by mad guitars, everybody played petanque and danced till dawn.
It was a perfect show with a real sense of the perfection of youth and as everyone wandered from the red tables and chairs of the bar Senequier to the Chanel party Karl hosted at the VIP club, there was also the shared feeling of being part of that rare, golden world."