Karl Lagerfeld is never one to fail to surprise. Karl’s last fall
collection for Chanel 2014 was featured in a, now-famous, faux
supermarket. Although he has never set foot inside a supermarket, the
collection turned out flawless as always as his shoppers, models, walked
the faux aisles of the show. Let’s also not forget his spring show that
offered feminist protesters. So what did Karl Lagerfeld have up his
sleeves this year, the question everyone was anticipating the answer too
while awaiting their invitations. This years Chanel Fall 2015
collection took place in a café, also named Brasserie Gabrielle. Karl’s
top models, Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner and Joan Smalls, were sat at
their own table. Opening and closing the show together, besties Kendall
and Cara walked the show with grace.
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The models that wore beautiful ruffled skirts made up to take the place
of aprons, played the part of the French bistro waiters. Bowties in
tact, some carried plates. Others wore ensembles for a lunch, dinner or
gala with friends, leaving social media behind and enjoying each others
company. Karl Lagerfeld always sends a special message with his
collections and this one was heard.
Karl Lagerfeld turned the Grand Palasia’s into a masterpiece café. The
stadium seats turned into leather covered-booths. The tables had white
cotton linen covered on top. There were multiple bars within the set up,
serving champagne but also, food, orange juice and espresso, a
beautiful Parisian Café set up. While the models took their seats at
their tables, guests arrived on a faux-mosaic and very intricate floor.
The front row consisted of Rihanna, Florence Welch, Alessandra
Mastronardi and Carmen Kass who brought her eight year old goddaughter,
Coco. Amoung guests were his godson, Hudson Kroenig and dad, Brad.
During the show Anna Wintour is pictured faux-scolded little Hudson as
their table.
The ‘French Collection’ as Karl Lagerfeld calls this collection
features shoes designed by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel herself. Karl admits
that this is the first time, since taking over the company in the
eighties, that he has used an original shoe design by the legend. The
sling back, cap-toe, square-heel style complimented his origami-quilted
puffer coats well. Along with the garments he found humor within the
accessories by adding forks and spoons on the quilted handbags. All the
ladies wore a causal, French look with their makeup and gave a sense of
chic style throughout the runway. Details carefully selected right down
to the coins on the tables portraying the tips left for the waiters.
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| Photo: PurseBop |
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| Photo: PurseBop |
Among the girls that came in from two different directions Karl
Lagerfeld had a few men in tweed walking the runway to muse about gender
equality and diversity. Classic Chanel shown through the sights of this
collection, with tweedy-plaids, patterned sweaters with skirts under
glittering parkas, layers over classic Chanel jackets and jeans. Puffer
coats and paper thin leather, colors such as classic white and black
along with blues, bold reds and military greens. Fresh trapeze little
black dresses strolled down the runway along with a huge triangle coat
in a celestial cacophonous merger of plain gray wool and frenzied
jeweled feathers. Karl Lagerfeld never disappoints and after the
terrorist attacks on Paris earlier this year, a day-to-day setting is
just the calmness everyone needed. It was a sight to see, something out
of a dream. Lagerfeld has us all dressing as bistro waiters for the fall
and it is something we will all be looking forward to.
Signed Opinionated Fashionista- Inspired by Karl
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