If you are a Park Avenue princess, you can wear your hair as big as you want to! Chanel presents models wearing a creative 1960’s coffiture to match up with perfectly classic suits and dresses that you can wear at twenty or ninety. The show started off with the traditional suits and cocktail dresses, but quickly heads into long debutant and showgirl frocks dripping in beads, netting and feathers. Speaking of showgirls, Dita Von Tesse, burlesque society star and fiancée to Marilyn Manson attended sitting front row. She was picking out a gown for an up coming photo shoot. She might have her eye on this pink and black confection with a hint of Victoriana meets Barbie’s bubble dress.
  
“Hidden luxury” is the theme Karl stamped this collection with. Luxury is concocted from fabric’s rich in details, all the things haute couture is best known for. Dresses are woven with metallic threads, ribbons, layers of wool and net. There is not only beading, but heavy layers of it. Feathers peak from every seam. The primary colors here are the obvious; black, white, gold, and pink with a random splash of rainbow in a few pieces. These rich and sumptuous pieces are made to be red carpet Oscar show stoppers. The strapless black and white feather dress would be a perfect choice.
  
The whole collection meets with great approval, but a few pieces are still questionable. Though sometimes it is nice to be nostalgic over the 1980’s era, these “Dynasty” dresses above might just be worth leaving behind. Does Karl hope that one of the teen idol actresses will wear this last atrocity to their prom? It is also hard to see what Karl wanted to portray with his gaudy beaded rainbow dress. Well not everything is perfect, even in the world of Chanel.

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