Don’t miss out on the exclusive video taken at New York’s Grand Central Station of the Chanel Cruise 2006 2007 collection. Enjoy the emphasis Karl has taken lately on showing the clothes in real life settings. Click the picture above to view.
December 7th, 2005 Chanel hosted the Paris-New York Collection. This collection was filled with classic dresses with silk chiffon & black and white tweed suits. If you want to stick with classic Chanel and think the Spring collection was too colorful and off-key for you, you can retreat back into a more demure Chanel look here.
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.
(1)Jessica Alba wore a luscious coco brown and pink fall season cashmere sweater to the opening of her movie “Sin City”. This sweater is sold as a set, complete with cashmere shell top. (2)Katie Holmes, currently engaged to Tom Cruise has been sporting Chanel dresses at all the recent events she has been attending. This red dress is from the Paris-Tokyo collection. (3)Vanessa Paradis, French actress, Chanel model, and girlfriend to Johnny Depp often depends on Chanel for the red carpet as she did at the “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” premiere. (4-5) Lindsay Lohan must have just returned from a large Chanel shopping spree. She wore Chanel to the MTV awards. Lindsay has also been spotted in a few black Chanel dresses, pearl necklaces and chain belts, not to mention large CC logo sunglasses for a very Hollywood look. (6) Princess Caroline of Monaco looks to have on Chanel Couture. Lucky her!
This collection is not the Chanel your grandma knew, far from! Chanel is on the cutting edge of innovation and marketing. The Japanese market loves Chanel. Being that Chanel generates as much revenue in Japan as in the entire European market, there is no question as to why we have a show almost clearly made to order. Is this Yoko Ono in the 60′s, but in Chanel style? Japanese Street style has a clear influence, no doubt about it. There is barely a brave American who would wear patterned tweed pants layered with mismatched coats, sweaters, go-go boots, then have the guts to accessorize with costume jewelry after all that. The Japanese will, with styling straight off the runway, gothic Lolita makeup and all. The bows are bigger, the jewelry more excessive, the hair more extreme. The modern art drama of this show is not for the fashion timid. The simplicity that Coco Chanel strived for was thrown out the door. At least thanks to this season and the fun Karl had with it, we have a whimsical matchstick high heel and stunning redesigns of Coco Chanel’s cuff bracelets.
Be it a bit heavy, there is still pieces here that are being ordered for our American market. This red dress has all the elements fall trends are asking for, Edwardian romanticism in darker rich colors. Take note, Chanel is slowly sneaking in men’s fashions. Start convincing your boyfriends, husbands and gay guy friends that it’s the next best thing since Dior Homme. Boutiques are ordering just a select few pieces for men at this time.
This Fall we saw more beautiful tweed coats (that you can never go wrong with) layered with knits, silver lurex fabrics, skinny pants and leg warmers. Sexy slouchy thigh high leather boots gives an edge to school girl skirts. Most of the outfits were accessorized by the epic reissue of the original 2.55 purse, bringing tradition to balance out the innovative designs of the season.
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