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Karl Lagerfeld’s creativity had no limits and brought forth iconic pieces. Six years after his death, we look back at the Chanel woman, both plural and unique, signed Lagerfeld.
“Fashion goes out of fashion, style never does” said Gabrielle Chanel. Karl Lagerfeld applied this adage to the letter by working for more than thirty years within the house. From spring-summer to fall-winter collections, including Cruise and Métiers d’Art shows... The seasons follow one another at breakneck speed. Fashion does what it undoes and yet, not a single Karl Lagerfeld show has ever been the same. The designer has constantly renewed the Chanel style by keeping the quintessence inspired by Gabrielle Chanel. He revived the camellia, regilded tweed, brought sailor sweaters back into fashion and made two-tone shoes the it-shoes. He dusted off the Chanel wardrobe by modernizing iconic pieces and fabrics. Coco liberated women, Karl liberated luxury by making it mainstream. With all the sophistication, he cuts into the little jacket once associated with the bourgeoisie, to sketch out new looks, firmly anchored in their time and always one step ahead. He appropriates feathers, embroidery and trimmings to enhance his silhouettes down to the smallest detail. He draws on pop culture, history and the future to create fashion. The floral wedding dresses of yesteryear give way, a few months later, to all-out robots. The sometimes monochrome wardrobe then becomes an explosion of color. A jack-of-all-trades, he has even offered us capsule collections with H&M or Coca-Cola.
Karl Lagerfeld, insatiably, set about renewing Chanel’s DNA with virtuosity, leaving an inestimable legacy… In the workshops, the little hands interpreted his pencil stroke. And this wonderful team took us into their enchanting, sharp, sophisticated, radiant, effervescent imagination. End of the world, beginning of fashion. A look back at the most striking creations from the Chanel shows.
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