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slimanes m.o. is to turn a house upside down and to make it look like chanel.... how can he make chanel look like chanel 😂
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Yes, she already left, it was with immediate effect. I thought it was already on the WWD and common knowledge.According to BoF, Chanel will rely on the studio team to design the upcoming couture collection.
Wow!According to BoF, Chanel will rely on the studio team to design the upcoming couture collection.
Unlike menswear, womenswear has a TON of male observants with a wide range of reasons on why they're observing.. some more complex than others, from pretending to see fashion but only watching cause you're watching women (remember Trump in every front row back in the day? lol), to policing in some cultures (or socioeconomic sectors), to seeing it for its artistic value, as a case study, as a shelter from macho cultures, because it's fun and high speed, to more complex reasons like wishing you could wear all of it and wearing it, or abstaining and sometimes developing some some type of resentment on the people who have no choice but to wear womenswear because.. similar societies.
Well I think that they are just going to finish up/go through with what she already had in place and "designed" with the lead premiere or whoever is making decisions in the atelier making changes. I doubt Chanel would just scrap that, because haute couture is started months before.Wow!
Are there any rumours about why she left? I thought it was amicable, but she won’t even be there for couture!? I’m shocked!
How on Earth can they do a couture collection in 20 days? I think it should’ve been directed by VV, no?
Where is Miss Tweed when we need her?
She’s probably too busy with Uniqlo and I’m fine with that. I did like that she brought elegance to givenchy but with a house like Chanel, you have to have a very strong visionOk, ok... let me fuel the fire a little with a card under my sleeve: Clare Waight Keller
well, it's clear then, she was fired not resigned, I mean what she expected after that jaw-dropping cruise show....Karl would fire her himself if he saw the collection. It's always about business.According to BoF, Chanel will rely on the studio team to design the upcoming couture collection.
Reminds me of the conversations I had in this forum with PDFS. I was Cathy and PDFS was the stylist. But she/he convinced me that she will never leave and ended up thinking the same.About a year ago, I had such a discussion with a well-known stylist after Viard’s show in Los Angeles. This person was sure that Chanel wouldn’t change creative directors because of the money it was making under Viard. I’m not saying this has happened to Chanel, not at all. But money isn’t everything. With a house of Chanel’s status, its extraordinary story, the executives and owners ought to be equally — and maybe more — concerned with creativity and newness.
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i don't think ands its a fact that the project was not to replicate Karl from the first show she brought her idea reality into chanel that where mostly the commercials pieces KL did as well in between the crazy stuff ...KL now is celebrated but people where always hating on Kl chanel clothes besides the gloss of the set i always seen online and around me in industry complain about KL chanel but yet every house they have it at reference of some sort, the hate on VV is excessive and multitude of miss information and self fulling hypothesis.No it's not odd to want to stop or do something else, she's been with them since 1987, and tbh she not only survived in a studio where Karl was prone to fire people (hello Gilles Dufour), she gained his trust, so she fully deserves to have a break or a retirement, or another career, it's up to her. Hedi and Phoebe did it, VV can do it.
The matter of fact is, while she has been a great and loyal assistant, with a perfect knowledge of Karl's work, she isn't able to replicate Karl, and her own vision doesn't stand on its two feet.
She did her tenure perfectly loyally, but it's more a Guibourgé-filler era than the beginning of a new start.
Most of the furniture bought vintage / selected and redesigned by Hedi has origin in Dutch Haagse school it's a movement connected to brutalism, it's not basic b*tch its just not your taste perhaps... with the gaudy marble, gold and the fugly, basic btch furniture. 😷
lol one can leave as well its not only one sides also at that level and it being Chanel it can be even just a gentleman's agreement, as rumours where a month ago reported by mss twidd article :that she wanted to take life more easy and not continue at Chanel she (VV) been there already 30 years at Chanel that's forever in fashion terms, it can be even they disagreed following here decision as to when wanting to leave is.... not so definite till she speaks out or Chanel.well, it's clear then, she was fired not resigned, I mean what she expected after that jaw-dropping cruise show....Karl would fire her himself if he saw the collection. It's always about business.
Karl and Anna's longitivtiy somehow give ppl an illusion that one can stay forever if stay long enough without realising that both of them are, not just good at, but actually irreplaceable at their jobs. if you are not, the you will be replaced eventually.
:-) how do you mesh with more than a month ago: it was rumoured she was wanting to leave with now thinking she was fired for just because suddenly Chanel is not thinking about money any more but is thinking about telling a story LOL .....or even the last cruise that, is not even in stores yet to actually know how well it sold or not.Reminds me of the conversations I had in this forum with PDFS. I was Cathy and PDFS was the stylist. But she/he convinced me that she will never leave and ended up thinking the same.
So she was fired, she didn’t resign after all. Who would resign when you are getting paid millions for a job like that and with such a status?
On another note, Cathy saying Sarah Burton could be a good option reminds me of when she loved Rafs Dior. Puhlease girl.
Yes, I agree with most of what you said. I hated Cathy in his Dior/Raf era and I think she’s so biased, but it’s true she’s one of the very few journalists that is not afraid of speaking up.:-) how do you mesh with more than a month ago: it was rumoured she was wanting to leave with now thinking she was fired for just because suddenly Chanel is not thinking about money any more but is thinking about telling a story LOL .....or even the last cruise that, is not even in stores yet to actually know how well it sold or not.
Just press and online hate is not enough for a house like Chanel, KL went through more difficult press moments with his not so PC comments per example.
Is like people say Alessandro was fired as if its so black and white as well, i know nuances doesn't make for fun reading.
Catty lady aka Balenciaga model is as confused with her ideas as she is with her writing these days , with one liners like is -hedi going to make chanel skinny YES Lol so shallow same as matronly comment WTF !!!! (conservatively dressed older married woman, especially one with a somewhat heavy build..........) basic IG 0.3 sec attention grabbing statement to gain higher engagements on a IG post
Stop pretending Channel core clients that can spend 100K per season are all skinny 24 year olds !!!! stop ...its a house for rich women of mostly have average non model bodies and the clothes are forgiving as its the original cut of the founder ...is a boxy cut suit made from mens underwear fabric( jersey) for comfort or mens tweed reimagined etc she did things out of mobility for women to be modern that time ...
Not every brand need to be cool young or sexy and its just the facts actual clients are none of those 3 things often.
Honestly i have peace not knowing why she left or if she was fired which i doubt , it's a new chapter for Chanel and i hope they get the best person for it , as it will be more fun to watch and maybe even buy into it.
I won't hold my breath what Catty will write when Demna is let go it will be all praise of course.
Ideally no brand or creative output should be on auto pilot but as a Rolex or a Porsche have minimum updates to its core lines, its approached by the long time buyers and fans became and gold standard of some sort, for time less items that keep generating dreams of owning for generations, same for fashion brands some evolve harder and some have a slower pace it's that's why Hermes and Chanel bags kept resell value and helped these brands to sustain and grow during pandemic as the idea of fashion product as investment gained more traction.Yes, I agree with most of what you said. I hated Cathy in his Dior/Raf era and I think she’s so biased, but it’s true she’s one of the very few journalists that is not afraid of speaking up.
I do think some of her paragraphs look like written by a designer stan or are TikTok worthy.
In this case, though, as we previously discussed, I do think she’s right saying that a brand like Chanel should not live in autopilot. They need a voice. Virginie, as adorable as she seems, has no voice and she’s just doing good because of KL. I guess many clients don’t even know he’s dead