The distinction \u201cHaute Couture\u201d implies working with cuts and couture sewing. And yet there\u2019s none of that here. \u201cThis is Haute Couture without the couture,\u201d declared the Kaiser. Everything was cast rather than sewn. But there was still, silhouette after silhouette, the appearance of something so exquisitely splendid it could only have been created in Chanel\u2019s workshops, long accustomed to confronting, and mastering, the impossible. Karl Lagerfeld wanted to feel out, tear apart, and disrespect the rules with the goal of bringing out something new. In doing so he\u2019s opened a fantasy window to certain creations, forcing the allure of insane proportions that remind us that this is indeed Haute Couture. But the silhouettes remain well-behaved, with their lengths extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The distinction \u201cHaute Couture\u201d implies working with cuts and couture sewing. And yet there\u2019s none of that here. \u201cThis is Haute Couture without the couture,\u201d declared the Kaiser. Everything was cast rather than sewn. But there was still, silhouette after silhouette, the appearance of something so exquisitely splendid it could only have been created in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56,5572,5534,266,61,13998],"class_list":["post-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-accessories","tag-chanel","tag-creations","tag-fantasy","tag-haute-couture","tag-karl-lagerfeld","tag-silhouette"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n