Le Cercle Privé

lostwxlf
Oct 18, 2016
2 min read

Okay so I just watched the Chanel Fall-Winter 2016 Haute Couture show and felt it would be necessary, if only just to express how excited I was (even though I am 7 Chanel shows late. Fashionably!) Particularly with the opening of the show, that featured the Chanel ambassadors wearing clothes that Karl designed to reflect how he saw each of them.

I positively shuddered with excitement when I saw Kirsten Stewart walking through the casino set Lagerfeld had built in the Grand Palais for the show, and I thought that was it. Lol, I was wrong! She was followed by a troupe of Chanel girls and boys like Geraldine Chaplin, Jamie Bochert, Lily Collins, Lara Stone, Baptiste, Rita Ora, Lara Stone, Vanessa Paradis and daughter Lily-Rose Depp, G-Dragon and his hair, Stella Tennant, Rinko Kikuchi… sorry I couldn’t help but list all the faces I knew; and finally, Julianne Moore who all sat down around the roulette tables and let lesser mortals take pictures from the front row.

The collection was special, though nothing I can say I’ve never seen from Chanel before (I am a little too critical of the brand I guess). The classic Chanel jacket got another update which I can again say, has been happening. It was interesting though to see the extended shoulder in some of the jackets and the coats, those are coats I could fall in love with. A bit of a trapeze silhouette in some and the rest had boxy shapes with softly rounded shoulders that lured me in without question. Rosy cheeks and bobs reminiscent of Louise Brooks were pretty cool really.

Without much of a doubt, Karl Lagerfeld always manages to give me a chance to dream, the clothes he makes have the right amount of fantasy and elegance sewn into the seams. My particular favourites had to be when the super A-line dresses came out; my interest was piqued for a while. Enough to forget what was happening behind the models. Tulle? I loved it.

The embellishments and various fabric treatments throughout the show were a stale but viable talking point and I couldn’t take my eyes off the 3D camellia evening coat that came out by the end. A Kendall Jenner appearance in a magnificent masculine yet so so feminine wedding suit had me imagining telling (in a series of frantic emails) my imaginary assistant to book an appointment at the Chanel atelier.

and I'm just gonna leave this here...