{"id":148464,"date":"2018-01-24T01:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148464"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:15:27","slug":"chanels-garden-couture-delights-paris-celebrity-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/24\/chanels-garden-couture-delights-paris-celebrity-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanel’s garden couture delights Paris celebrity guests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Spring-Summer 2018 Haute Couture collection created by Karl Lagerfeld, revealed in an ephemeral garden under the vault of the Grand Palais. (Photo<\/a>: CHANEL\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PARIS — Rose scents mingled with celebrities including Marion Cotillard, Sofia Coppola and Rita Ora at Chanel’s couture display in Paris on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This season, designer showman Karl Lagerfeld recreated a verdant royal garden to showcase his bucolic creations.<\/p>\n

Some highlights from Tuesday’s spring-summer 2018 shows:<\/p>\n

CHANEL’S GARDEN COUTURE<\/p>\n

Chanel’s fragrant garden featured architectural wooden arbors and myriad white roses — complete with a babbling water fountain.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the geometric curves in the garden furniture, Lagerfeld went back to nature — and to Chanel’s couture roots — for a display of dramatic looks constructed with geometric detail.<\/p>\n

The clothes were rich with soft floral embroidery and frothy looks in a pastel palette. Models including Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber wore sweet pink, white and purple posies in black tulle hair-pieces.<\/p>\n

The devil’s in the detail and this season it’s all about the sleeve.<\/p>\n

A raglan style — one that extends in one piece fully to the collar — seemed to inspire the beautiful and surreal arm shapes that descended stiffly like a tapered tube. Shoulders were wide and dramatically curved.<\/p>\n

Full skirts flared out like giant bells in a crisp line shared this surreal quality.<\/p>\n

Lagerfeld is an ambitious man, and elsewhere his 69 designs also channeled the tiered fashions of the swinging 1920s.<\/p>\n

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DIOR’S MASKED BALL<\/p>\n

Masked revelers danced into the early hours of Tuesday at the soiree event of couture week: Christian Dior’s surrealism-themed masked ball at the Rodin Museum.<\/p>\n

Actress Monica Bellucci stepped out onto the checkered chess board set in a vivid red lace Dior gown, while model Bella Hadid stunned in a revealing black tulle shoulder less gown, hugging singer Courtney Love.<\/p>\n

Guests in checkered face masks that sometimes impaired vision negotiated around giant 2-meter chess pieces, faceless dancing performers and hanging surrealist sculptures in the marquee venue that was also used to showcase the historic design house’s spring and summer couture styles.<\/p>\n

A wall of white arms, some fake and some real (belonging to hidden performers), handed out white roses to passers-by who snacked on white chocolate playing cards served on a green poker table cover.<\/p>\n

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ALEXIS MABILLE’S OLD-SCHOOL GLAMOUR<\/p>\n

The red carpet said it all: French designer Alexis Mabille turned on the glamour for a display of classic couture gowns on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The styles were firmly set to the 1950s — the years following the austerity of World War II that produced long exuberant lengths of fabrics, hyper femininity and full hourglass silhouettes.<\/p>\n

A floor-length satin gown in coral sported a retro giant floppy bow at the waist, while a dark cobalt gown with huge skirt had an abbreviated take on a fifties jacket as a bustier, and was paired with full length evening gloves.<\/p>\n

A series of fun balloon gowns — with skirt hems gathered around inside — were the strongest pieces in the show.<\/p>\n

Each skirt sported an even bigger explosion of fabric, until the show reached a dramatic crescendo in a circular bottle green gown that spread out from the bust.<\/p>\n

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SWAROVSKI AT HOTEL DE CRILLON<\/p>\n

No luxury detail was overlooked at the launch of Swarovski’s eyewear collection inside the revamped Hotel de Crillon, which reopened last year after a 200-million euro refurbishment.<\/p>\n

Views of the sparkling Place de la Concorde delighted guests including model and actress Poppy Delevingne, socialite Olivia Palermo and Roman Polanski’s actress daughter Morgane Polanski.<\/p>\n

The eyewear was displayed on stands and featured opulent use of crystal in architectural designs inspired by the Atelier Swarovski jewelry collections, which were also shown off at the event.<\/p>\n

Guests then tucked into a lavish meal that included wine from the famous vineyard Chateauneuf-du-Pape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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