Last week Hilary Alexander wrote an dazzlingly beautiful review of Karl Lagerfeld’s SS11 show in Paris. She touches upon the Lagerfeld’s accuracy and delicacy to which his fleeting thoughts conjure into a spellbinding collection and show.
Now in his 70’s, KL joined the house of Chanel in 1983. 28 years and 56 couture collections later, 66 looks were strutted down the runway. The show opened with the aristocratic Scottish model, Stella Tennant (40 and a mother of four). Wearing a short Chanel jacket with just a whisper of 'tailoring', HA describes her as shwoing the new silhouette. Detailed with gossamer embroidery, the jacket is teamed with a short skirt over gleaming, wet-look, crystal leggings, ruffled-up and zipped at the ankles.
It sets the fairytale mood of the entire show. Tweeds twinkle with crystals, collars and cuffs gleam with beads and sequins. Occasional flashes of jet-black, tangerine and a deep azure blue punctuate the dreamy palette of blush-pinks, ivory and a shadowy-grey. The use of feathers, mixed with pearls and crystals, is echoed in the web-like edges of the layered tulle ballgowns.
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