Haute couture doesn’t capture time, it rather traces around its fantasized outlines. It’s with this idea in mind that Karl Lagerfeld chose to celebrate nature through an art that incarnates the apogee of pure artifice: to reinterpret a century-old classic, the creative director of the double-C brand took an environmental approach. “It’s amusing to do this after being high-tech,” he adds backstage. Indeed, last fall’s collection brought 3D printing into the heart of French craftsmanship.
Now Couture Spring Summer 2016 is reinventing the Chanel suit in a more spiritual vein, borrowing the importance of the silhouette from Japan as well. The suit’s jacket thus gets more inflated upon contact with a long I-cut skirt. Short, with voluminous sleeves, the Chanel suit jacket appears in a number of natural colors – white, off-white, taupe, linen, and the eternal beige of course. The beautification process gets a little inventive when Karl Lagerfeld takes bees, a nod to the endangered species, and sticks crystalized brooch versions of them on the suit to adorn this sublime and unreasonable art with a touch of consciousness.
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