Chanel’s Métiers d’art collection soon in store: next show held in Paris
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Chanel’s Métiers d’art collection soon in store: next show held in Paris
Yesterday Chanel revealed that Paris will be the next city to host the yearly Métiers d’art fashion show. While the exact location remains a mystery, the show will take place on December 5, showcasing a fusion of creativity and craftsmanship, witnessing what is going to be Virginie Viard’s first footsteps at the throne of Chanel’s exceptional artisanal universe.
The Métiers d’art runway show takes place outside the traditional fashion schedule and was first introduced in 2002 by the now late Karl Lagerfeld. Its main focus — then and now — is to honour the fine craftsmanship that Chanel’s artisan partners bring to the house’s collections. Each year the fashion house turns to a different location — Schloss Leopolskron palace in Salzburg, the Cinecitta studios in Rome, and most recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — to pay tribute to the workshops that provide the house with everything from lace to silver buttons and fine embroidery work.
While the entire fashion industry waits with bated breath for the coming Métiers d’art line, the ready-to-wear Paris-New York 2018/19 collection will be available in boutiques in June(!). Giving us just about enough time to scroll through the gallery to find our grain of gold.
The complicity of the now late Lagerfeld and Chanel Métiers d'art takes form as a perpetual creative dialogue...
which illustrates the sumptuous elegance of the silhouettes and accessories of the collection.
It represents a graphic reinterpretation of Egyptian paintings...
with a delicate inlay of feathers that combines a deep red, black and blue lapis lazuli...
applied in a plastron necklace of tiny flowers in denim and golden leather and cut with a rough border and highlighted with accounts.
The thigh boots made by the House of Massaro are painted with gold or neon pink graffiti...
and their heels with gold jewellery highlighted with enamel and enhanced with cabochons.
The silhouettes vibrate under the sun, with optical lines that are almost kinetic.
"New York, it is an energy and a melting pot of cultures, it is very stimulating," said Lagerfeld about the collection, multiplying the tributes to the streets of New York.
A dress which look slightly painted with a spray.
A denim aviator jacket with patches sewn in golden thread is combined with a printed urban art leather dress.
The forms are pure, geometric and distinct: a graphic force so appreciated by the stylistic grammar of the house.
The lines are clear and simple in true Chanel-spirit.
The collection holds everything from street art to art deco and antiquity.
Flat chains with rhinestones that combine the colours of the urban frescoes with the graphic lines of the skyscrapers... As a benevolent sign, a piece of Chanel Art Deco jewellery, dating from the 1920s.