PARIS: On the last day of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, Chanel travelled to the beachfront for a program devoted to the location where its popular creator released her very first shop.
The program started with a brief advertisement starring Brad Pitt and Penelope Cruz– a homage to traditional 1960s French movie “A Man and a Woman”– embeded in the northern seaside town of Deauville.
On the catwalk, the star of the program was certainly the huge-brimmed beach hats– a nod to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s very first shop, opened in Deauville in 1912, where she offered hats and unwinded jersey clothing for trendy beach-goers.
Her story has actually gotten higher attention in current weeks thanks to Apple television’s series “The New Look”, exploring her complex negotiations with the Nazis throughout World War II.
The brand-new collection had a scheme of brilliant pastel tones throughout a variety developed for winter season strolls on the beach, consisting of pea coats, tweed fits, 1920s-style pant fits and turtlenecks.
Imaginative director Virginie Viard, who took over from Karl Lagerfeld when he passed away in 2019, has actually periodically dealt with criticism for an absence of bold.
That has “the benefit of not losing individuals along the method,” stated starlet and design Arielle Dombasle, a routine muse for Lagerfeld, speaking on the sidelines of the program.
“It’s not gratuitously magnificent, it’s stylish and constantly effective,” she informed AFP.
The ninth and last day of Paris Fashion Week’s ladies’s ready-to-wear programs likewise consist of huge names such as Miu Miu, Lacoste and Louis Vuitton, along with a surprise last-minute addition of a menswear program by Saint Laurent to close the week. –AFP