Vogue collection 2015

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) So this was actually one occasion when the usual, fabulously grandiose concept for a Chanel show stumbled. (That was long before it became impossible for him to eat out, because of a selfie-crazed public that wouldn't wait till he'd swallowed his food before they invaded his space.More About Chanel The Updo That Goes from Black Tie to Brunch: One Vogue Editor Test-Drives Chanel?s Runway Hair Little Bow Peep: 7 Ways to Wear Chanel's Polished Ribbon Looks What Could Be More French than Chanel.The Grand Palais, the grandest exhibition space in le tout Paris, was turned into the kind of all-day, leather-banquette-ed winer-and-diner you can find on almost any street corner in Paris.Read More Read Hamish Bowles?s review of Chanel?s Fall 2015 ready-to-wear fashion show.So you could almost construe Lagerfeld's last three ready-to-wear collections for Chanel as an uncynical celebration of French banality: the supermarche, the manifestation (does a single day pass without a demonstration? EN SAVOIR PLUS >>>

After this morning's performance (there will be another this afternoon and one more this evening), he relaxed on the balcony of the Schloss Leopoldskron?breath frosting in the freezing air, lake behind him a glass mirror on which 20 swans had recently passed in close formation?like a man who was completely at peace with his past, present, and future.But his latest Metiers d'Art show in celebration of the thrilling craftsmanship of Chanel's artisans moved him.Usually there's a clipped urgency to Lagerfeld, but here he was happy to sit back and acknowledge how close the collection was to his heart.It was one of those jackets, transmuted into the uniform of a hotel page in Salzburg's Mittersill Hotel, that inspired Chanel's signature little black jacket (though it was more often white, Lagerfeld pointed out).The capelets, frogged jackets, and side-striped trousers echoed a Viennese military academy.And where would Mitteleuropa be without loden green.There were plenty of them in the show, too.56765.56.34.99What could have turned out to be hippie-dippie-boho nonsense in other hands was a resounding success for Clare Waight Keller, the creative director of Chloe.I liked the idea of denim, that it can be used raw or washed and it becomes personal to the wearer?it is immediate and honest.There were simply great silhouettes that spoke for themselves and concentrated on their proportions?styling was stripped-back, clean, chic, and worked to emphasize the quality of the collection, as did the spot-on casting of the models.There is a reason that film is called Slap Her, She's French.There was something no-nonsense about the Spring collection: pretty yet precise, elegant but not excessive, practical rather than pouty.And yet, despite the Chloe girl today having so many of those elements in abundance?I have absolutely no idea about the laughter and the accent, mind you, but the hair today was indeed lovely?in this collection, somehow, you did not want to slap her.I wanted to have an idea of workwear

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