In a shortest fashion film, evoking the glory days of the legendary Paris club Le Palace, Chanel’s introduced its latest haute couture.
”The collection is distinguished by a desire of opulence, brilliance and sophistication. I had in mind the heads of eccentric princesses, the type of women Karl Lagerfeld liked to accompany to soirees in the Palace,” said Chanel’s couturier Virginie Viard.
The video features five looks on two models, Rianne von Rompaey and Adut Akech.
“I was thinking about a punk princess coming out of ‘Le Palace’ at dawn. With a taffeta dress, big hair, feathers and lots of jewelry. This collection is more inspired by Karl Lagerfeld than Gabrielle Chanel. Karl would go to Le Palace, he would accompany these very sophisticated and very dressed up women, who were very eccentric too,” added Karl’s successor Viard.
“I like working like this, going in the opposite direction of what I did last time. I wanted complexity, sophistication,” stressed Viard, who termed this season’s overall mood as “ultra-rock romanticism”.
Rianne rounds off the clip with a décolleté black dress with an enormous bow, worn with a fab, high jewelry silver pendant, her hair gathered up in spiky posh punk style – in synch with the wild mood of Le Palace. All told, the clip captures the after-hours fetes at Le Palace, where Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Roland Barthes and Jean-Paul Goude all rubbed shoulders and Grace Jones sang La Vie en Rose in dry ice perched on a Harley Davidson.
