Chanel & Armani light up the runway
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E-mail CNTV, January 29, 2015
Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld presents a colorful runway show, and the 2015 spring-summer Couture collection from Giorgio Armani was resolutely set in the East, and appropriately held at the Tokyo Palace Museum in Paris on Tuesday evening.
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2015 spring-summer collection from Chanel [Chanel.com] |
Karl Lagerfeld sends a bouquet of flowers to Paris
Chanel's shows are always the hottest ticket in town.
As soon as the show began, dashing male models entered the catwalk area armed with watering cans. Lo and behold, the white paper flowers unfurled magically to spawn huge tropical colored blossoms, as vivid 3D Venus flytraps opened. Guests had been transported into a flower pop-up book, which had taken six months to build.
The clothes were youthful, colorful and fresh: Circular stand up collars, A-line minis, bolero jackets and daringly low exposed midriffs defined many of the silhouettes.
"Because you know, most of the time Chanel is black and white, beige and pastel colors. So suddenly, I felt the need for some bright colors. It's in the air, you know, fashion is like this, you don't know why, you only know how," Lagerfeld said.
Elsewhere there were flashes of other eras, reimagined. Then there were the incredible, 3D flower embroideries that evoked the set, billowing across shoulders or at the bottom of coats, resembling a couture gem mine. Lagerfeld called it "the flower women of the 21st century."
"What I like too is the beanies embroidered. Everybody wears beanies, but nobody had done them in a couture version yet. Many inspirations but, no inspiration (that) I can say this is this, you know, it's not like a marketing thing, it's just a vision. I don't know where it came from and where, I don't know, it's like this, you know. I work in a very improvised way, without asking myself too many questions. I put something on the paper, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work and goes to the garbage can," Lagerfeld said.
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