There is a reason that Karl is King! He caters to his customers. He knows what season he designs for and he offers a smorgasbord of silhouettes, colors and possibilities.
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This collection is almost literally accessory free and nary a cap toe to be seen, Lots of ice cream colors that don’t look anything other than delicious. Tweeds abound of course but the collection, yes of course with the usual Karl clunkers, was fresh, modern, appealing and free of the usual couture overstatements that dominate all seem to dominate so many collections. In other words all the accoutrements are there albeit in a much lower key than most.
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The Guido Palau (I think) hair offered modernity to the tried and true Chanel vocabulary and Karl is one of the very few who can do that length that I detest and make it look attractive, if not plain perfect. The collection has some little gamine moments and some Marie Antoinette moments and there are a plethora of LBDs to more than satisfy his loyal flock. Again, I’m not saying this was a collection overflowing with newness but it felt fresh and salable and oddly magnetic against the spring like setting that was conceived.
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Haute couture usually fails when the designer has a point to prove, a statement to make, tries too hard, overdoes the embellishments, the tulle and talks more about the collection that he didn’t show instead of what he did show. There is no blah blah blah... just clothes that smack of ka-ching… money in the bank.
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If you wish to see this as boring and tired that’s your prerogative, but Chanel sells more haute couture than probably 10 of his so called peers even if they are not!
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