A pop-up brasserie named after Chanel’s founder Coco, whose real name was Gabrielle, was the latest creation by Karl Lagerfeld to show off his upcoming collection in Paris’ Grand Palais.
It was a fitting backdrop for a show aimed at celebrating the essence of Parisian style.
Besides showcasing an array of Chanel staples – slimly tailored knit suit jackets paired with pleated or cigarette skirts – Lagerfeld had some fun playing with creases: sleeves were covered with hundreds of crinkly tucks, giving volume and modernity to the otherwise traditional shapes.
For her ready-to-wear collection, Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen collaborated with Polish-born textile designer Aleksandra Gaca to create 3-D hand woven textiles.
“The central material in the collection is a very thin metal weave. It’s stainless steel, but so thin that it becomes really like a fabric and we’ve been hand-burning it with fire so all the colours that you see are created by fire and not by paint or other thing
