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Lagerfeld lives on in Chanel Paris haute couture show
The long shadow of Karl Lagerfeld hung over Chanel's first Paris haute couture collection without the Kaiser.
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Lagerfeld lives on in Chanel Paris haute couture show
The long shadow of Karl Lagerfeld hung over Chanel's first Paris haute couture collection without the Kaiser.
For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.
5 European Couturiers of 20th Century: Their Lives and Their Enduring Styles
To pay homage to 5 couturier who have devoted their ingenuity to fabricate our kaleidoscopic apparels, LUXUO hopes to shed light on the little known early days of these pioneers and their characteristic styles
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Keanu Reeves: The New Face of Yves Saint Laurent
The enigmatic Keanu Reeves is the new face for Yves Saint Laurent and while he might seem an odd choice, the multi-hyphenate celebrity is actually the most analogous one. LUXUO explores.
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Take a bow: Karl Lagerfeld, fashion’s undisputed workaholic, has called it a day
Once upon a time, it seemed like ticking hours had no hold over Karl Otto Lagerfeld.
Always sporting sunglasses, sharp white collars, fingerless gloves, white Prince Charming-esque ponytail, with hardly a paunch in sight, he brimmed with inexhaustible energy, ageing well for someone in his 80s.
The German multitasker’s reign as king of collaborations has proven unmatched, with a string of prolific partnerships. Holding the creative reins at Fendi and Chanel translates to churning out ready-to-wear and couture collections, as well as shooting the ad campaigns for both luxury fashion powerhouses. But that did not stop him from taking on more projects with world-famous brands the likes of Volkswagen, Coca Cola, Shu Uemura and Faber-Castell, catapulting his name beyond the fashion universe.
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The fantastical sets he conjured for each show established Chanel as a talking point every Paris Fashion Week, from which he parlayed his boundless imagination to chocolate suites for Magnum and lavish apartments for Hôtel de Crillon. Come 2020, he will have a hotel to call his own when the Karl Lagerfeld Hotel opens in Macau.
He shed more than 40kg in 13 months to fit into Hedi Slimane’s infamous skinny suits for Dior Homme. Wow. That accomplishment is still amazing 19 years later. If “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” as Kate Moss declared, then the Renaissance Man gets his daily sustenance from magazines, music, movies and books.
In fact, it was reported in 2015 that the well-known hoarder had 300,000 books.“Today, I only collect books; there’s no room left for something else. If you go to my house, I’ll have you walk around the books.” Did someone suggest the Konmari? Doubt Marie Kondo’s 30‐book rule would spark joy for the bibliophile.
Neither would you expect the multilingual polymath with the outsized personality to cut back on the barbs. Criticism is another art form for the Renaissance Man.
No wonder people speculated that the overachiever was actually an android. But if he was a machine masquerading as a man of many talents, he was not one without feelings.
Who knew he would be susceptible to the power of cute until he adopted Choupette? So big was his crush that he spoilt the pampered puss rotten, and even confessed on CNN: “I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat,” lamenting that “there is no marriage, yet, between human beings and animals.”
Neither was the android infallible. Whispers of his well‐being arose when he failed to appear beside the bride at the Chanel SS19 haute couture show for both the morning and afternoon sessions.
On February 19, news broke that the legend passed away in Paris that Tuesday morning at the age of 85, swamping Instagram with touching homages from friends, fans, creative allies and designers both juniors and peers. “Part of my youth went away with you... With whom can I now laugh and remember those happy and carefree moments spent at Fiacre or Flore... Karl, my friend, Karl genio gigantesco [“gigantic genius” in Italian]... my sadness is infinite... Au Revoir Karl!” Valentino Garavani grieved. Rival house Dior also paid its respects.
“With a once cold but now simply broken heart, I am going into mourning,” purred his darling Choupette, pictured wearing a black veil. “I pray that your kind words and well wishes will help me to put my best paw forward in my future without Daddy and as my own woman.”
An illustration of Lagerfeld and house founder Coco with the words “The beat goes on...” fronted Chanel’s AW19 press kits, while each seat at Fendi’s AW19 venue was set with his sketches and a card bearing an F, a love heart and his signature. The date of his death, just two days before, was inscribed on the back.
“Love KL”, in his florid script, loomed large over the catwalk, while the Karligraphy monogram he designed in 1981 is embossed on the carpeted runway, and punctuated cabochon buttons, turtleneck bodysuits and tights.
His distinguished bows adorned necks and the back of clothes. “Karl worked until the very last day,” shared Silvia Venturini Fendi on Instagram. “We talked on Monday. He gave advice and directions on the last touches, this idea of a scarf to tie at the back of clothes.” She called “the bond between Karl Lagerfeld and Fendi fashion’s longest love story”; indeed, he ran her family brand for 54 years and has long been recognised as family. He made a flourishing business out of fur, but he has also imagined a future without it, in his AW18 couture collection.
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Long-time collaborator Sam McKnight gave models short ponytails similar to Lagerfeld’s distinctive ’do, topped with glossy swirls in Thirties’ style, the decade the superstar designer was born. For Chanel, the celebrated hairstylist decorated half‐ponytails with “all the things he loved: camelias, bows, snowflake feather and pearl brooches”.
Fendi played a portion of Loïc Prigent’s 2013 documentary, where he drew what he wore on his first day to work at Fendi in 1965.
Over at Chanel, he recalled the time when he was offered creative directorship. “People said, ‘Don’t take that, it’s hopeless, it’s over’,” his voice echoed across the Grand Palais transformed in his last spectacle of a mountain village on a beautiful winter’s day.
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The show ended with a parade of models led by Cara Delevingne, strolling through the set like they were “walking in a painting,” as Queen Elizabeth II once said of Lagerfeld’s extravagant sets. Many were visibly emotional – Mica Argañaraz, Mariacarla Boscono and Catherine McNeil were seen wiping their tears as the trio, together with Delevingne, put their arms around one another’s shoulders for support.
The Kaiser is not one for sentimental farewells though. “I do not like funerals, and I do not want anyone to come to mine. Do what you want with the ashes. Send them down the garbage chute.”
Cremated without a funeral service, the lifelong insomniac would have his wish and be laid to rest in a private ceremony. Ruhe in Frieden (“rest in peace” in German), Mr Lagerfeld. May your glass of Diet Coke be forever full.
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Live Luxuriously Through the Work of Karl Lagerfeld
We look back at some of the late German designer’s luxurious houses around the world, reflecting styles from futuristic to Parisian inspired
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See the Beautiful Accessories from Chanel AW19 Collection Up Close
Chanel bid farewell to its legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld during Paris Fashion Week AW19 earlier this week. Stars, Chanel muses of all generations and editors came together for his final, posthumous show for which Chanel transformed the Grand Palais into a snow-covered mountain town. It's like a metaphor for fashion post-Lagerfeld -- Winter is coming.
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Aside of all the desirable jacket suits and dresses in chunky tweeds, checks, houndstooth and many more heritage motifs, Chanel is at its best when it comes to showcasing accessories that are set to be on next season's wish list. They continue to play with their classics and yet, they are renewed with bedazzling freshness. The bags match the tones of a season in the mountains: in black or white smooth quilted leather, supple in quilted tweed with a double C clasp interlaced with leather, a flap in faux fur or a camera case in braided shearling. Removable purses are attached to small bags with shoulder straps. Hip bags in faux fur or leather embroidered with glossy camellias alternate with gondola lift minaudières in rhinestoned resin. The emblematic bags of the House joyfully slalom between the chalet spirit for the Chanel’s Gabrielle bag in leather and fluffy checked tweed, a frosted inspiration for the 11.12 embroidered with sequins, and its all schuss energy for the 2.55 in neon orange quilted leather.
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Jewellery comes in frosty clear, pearls, gold, silver and enamel, playing with frost motifs and house emblems from from double C logo and hearts. Hats come in tweed or faux fur, while sunglasses with mirrored lens borrow its inspiration from none other than ski goggles.
Check out the gallery to see highlights from the collection.
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Object of desire: Chanel skateboard
One of fashion’s biggest names marries haute couture with urban swag.
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Object of desire: Chanel skateboard
One of fashion’s biggest names marries haute couture with urban swag.
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Inside Karl Lagerfeld’s Parisian Suites at Hôtel de Crillon
Oscars 2019 Red Carpet : The Best Fashion
The 91st Academy Awards happened yesterday! Discover here the best dressed from the Oscars 2019 Red Carpet.
The Academy Awards, also known as Oscars, are always the highlight of the award season! This year it was the 91st edition and it came with a lot of surprises, unexpected winners, speeches full of emotion and great fashion from the red carpet!
Held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, this year’s big winners were Green Book, winner of three awards, including Best Picture, Bohemian Rhapsody, winner of four awards, including Best Actor for Rami Malek’s performance, Roma and Black Panther also received three awards.
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Oscars 2019 Red Carpet : The Best Fashion
The 91st Academy Awards happened yesterday! Discover here the best dressed from the Oscars 2019 Red Carpet.
The Academy Awards, also known as Oscars, are always the highlight of the award season! This year it was the 91st edition and it came with a lot of surprises, unexpected winners, speeches full of emotion and great fashion from the red carpet!
Held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, this year’s big winners were Green Book, winner of three awards, including Best Picture, Bohemian Rhapsody, winner of four awards, including Best Actor for Rami Malek’s performance, Roma and Black Panther also received three awards.
Continue reading Oscars 2019 Red Carpet : The Best Fashion at Luxxu Blog.