Chanel autumn winter 2014

All were Chanel and Mademoiselle centric; while her silhouette and various incarnations of her name appeared all over the place, not a single item referenced Lagerfeld by name or by his famous likeness. Collection Gallery 78 Chanel autumn winter 2014 View Gallery. The spectacle will surely trigger conversation, as it had a great deal to say about fashion in its current state.

As the show commenced, models strutted down makeshift grocery aisles, browsing shelves chalk full of Chanel-branded products, all redesigned to suit Lagerfeld's trademark wit. Even the most traditional Chanel silhouettes were given a sporty revival, modernized through casual layering atop distressed body stockings. The show concluded with a final announcement that the Chanel Supermark was about to close, urging guests to storm the aisles. Posted November 11th, By Colby Mugrabi. Share this Muse Board on. References 1 2 Duane Hanson Supermarket Shopper, Peter Shire Double Peach Stack,

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If Chanel's Spring show skewered the art world for the oligarchs' supermarket it has turned into, Karl Lagerfeld went one better for Fall and imagined the whole world as a megastore— un grand magasin —under the sign of the double C. The shelves of his extraordinarily detailed set were stacked with more than a hundred thousand items, brazenly advertised at 20 or 50 percent more. No bargains in these aisles. The labels of at least five hundred everyday products had been re-coded in Chanelspeak. The one that most entranced the locals was the recasting of a sac poubelle garbage bag as a sac plus belle definitely not a garbage bag.

Chanel autumn winter 2014

A huge terrace with a fireplace—it has always been in Karl Lagerfeld's mind as a beautiful idea, ever since he saw photos of the visionary architect Le Corbusier's long-gone Paris apartment. Until now, of course, when the gigantic forest-planting, iceberg-importing, supermarket-building extravaganzas of Chanel shows past were scaled down to mimic the stark geometry of Corbu's designs. At either end of the catwalk were huge fireplaces stoked with digital flames. Above the mantel, a big old baroque mirror. Brutalist and baroque: A typically provocative union from a designer who skates across time like fashion's answer to Doctor Who. But it wasn't simply with the setting that Lagerfeld indulged his long-cherished dream. Le Corbusier was the architect who made concrete a staple of modern design. So Lagerfeld made concrete the foundation of his collection. In Haute Couture!

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Andy Warhol Grocery Shopping, Newsletters Sign up for WWD news straight to your inbox every day. References 1 2 Duane Hanson Supermarket Shopper, Along the way, he pulled off a near-impossible juxtaposition, reinterpreting his couture corsetry theme while infusing the collection with a sporty attitude. Lagerfeld offered them options: corseted suits with baggy pants, linear skirt suits, loose tweed coats over tight knits, bold citrus-hued toppers with feisty printed linings and dresses to match, big sweaters, shorts over sweats, a bit of powder-pink fluff and some moody gray metallics. In keeping with the supermarket motif, he threw out countless ideas. Paper Wedding Gown s. Even with those lapses, it made for a great time and a delightful fashion scramble. View Gallery 78 Photos. Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled, Log Out. McCabe Carmen Kass, His riffs on trainers in mixes of tweeds and skins came in low and boot versions. Manage Account.