CHANEL Spring 2001 Haute Couture - Fashion Channel

CHANEL Spring 2001 Haute Couture - Fashion Channel Visit and Subscribe to Fashion Channel to find out more! - http://bit.ly/1OdEd04 Visit our Shop: https://www.fashionchannel.shop Sublime is the word that comes to mind when looking at images from Karl Lagerfeld’s Spring 2001 couture collection for Chanel; it’s one in which he achieved a perfect balance between past and present; the models looked at once fresh and modern and like drawings that had come to life from the pages of 1930s Vogue. Proof that there really can be a timelessness to classic design. Shown in the days before Chanel was doing film-worthy mega-sets, the arrangements were unfussy walls painted in degrade tones of blue, reminiscent of a Riviera sky, with a huge gilded chain running along the base of wall, and the clothes were more powerful shown in such simplicity. To Hamish Bowles, the chain, a sort of super-sized version of the kind sewn into Chanel jackets to keep them in place, was “emblematic of the strong links between this collection and the legacy of Coco Chanel.” The chain also lent a sort of nautical aspect to the goings-on, which was quite fitting; Mademoiselle, a sun-lover credited with popularizing the tan, was famously photographed in a striped Breton top at her summer escape, circa 1929 Having set the scene, Lagerfeld proceeded not to the sea, but in a wonderfully breezy direction; for evening there were incredible dreams of dresses to choose among, some restrained, almost boyi