2014 Chanel Haute Couture Spring at Paris
2014 Chanel Haute Couture Spring at Paris
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Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Chanel Couture Spring 2014
Karl Lagerfeld conceived the space in which he presented his Chanel couture show on Tuesday morning as a futuristic nightclub and not, he stressed, a disco. That’s démodé.
Karl Lagerfeld’s 30-year track record at Chanel speaks to the validity of his judgment. Were the sneakers shtick? Of course they were (although expect them to sell), but shtick with a point. Lagerfeld was proclaiming the currency of couture: It can be young, it can be active, it can be versatile, all while remaining consummately couture.
The collection of Chanel was hyper-focused yet diverse. One major theme was the intense corsetry exposed between cropped jackets and belled skirts as well as breathe-freely waistless looks as different as divine diva gowns and a sheer T-shirt-and-bicycle shorts ensemble. The latter pulsed with the kind of fashion audacity that cries out for a brave starlet to don at the Oscars.
