Сhanel spring-summer 2020 Paris fashion week

https://wfc.tv/ The eternal and international attraction of being a French girl with “the knack” has been a thread that has run through some of the major Parisian houses and their major “experiential” shows this season. Virginie Viard, in her first ready-to-wear outing since the passing of Karl Lagerfeld, followed suit with her practical breakdown of a Chanel wardrobe for a young woman. It was up in the air in one way: on a set evoking the gray, zinc-lined rooftops of the Rue Cambon; and down to earth in another: a contemporary girl’s how-to instruction kit grounded in the heritage of Coco Chanel. Up on the roof chez Chanel, a flat-heeled procession of leggy girls set out in tweed playsuits, tiny silk shorts, garçonne coatdresses, and little bell-shaped skirts. Where Lagerfeld might’ve thrown on funny, punning accessories, Viard’s instinct was to strip back and emphasize the essentials of silhouette and tweedy Chanel textures in a relatable context—who could dare mimic his wit, after all? She said in a press release that she’d drawn a connection between the rooftop scenery and the “atmosphere of the Nouvelle Vague”—the French New Wave cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, famous for portraying young actresses in the honest light of real life. Kristen Stewart’s new biopic of the life of Jean Seberg had gelled that idea in her mind. At one point, an echo of Seberg’s T-shirt and jeans (the actress’s classic appropriation of French working-class style in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 movie