In Paris, The Creative Dialogue Of Spring Summer 2023 Chanel Haute Couture
Last week, on Tuesday, 24 January 2023, Chanel presented its Spring Summer 2023 Haute Couture show at the Grand Palais Éphémère near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. An exquisite creative dialogue between Virginie Viard and Xavier Veilhan.
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Virginie Viard invited the artist Xavier Veilhan once again to create the staging of the show, with the help of set designer Alexis Bertrand. The last part of the triptych-first revealed during the Spring Summer 2022 Couture show at the Bois de Boulogne – evoked a village festival. Guests were seated on colored stadium seats. Veilhan reinterpreted the bestiary in Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment at 31 rue Cambon and created a parade of eleven animal sculptures: a croco-dog, a camel, a buffalo, a doe, a dog, a bird, two fish, a lion, a horse and an elephant.
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The result is light and minimalist, made in wood, cardboard and paper with black and white touches. Surprisingly the models popped out from these mobile Trojan horses.
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The Spring Summer 2023 couture looks were divine. Long dresses, a satin short skirt or an organza long one, short shorts, hand-painted golden lamé lace layered on an entirely embroidered camisole with pink, silver, midnight blue scales. Immaculate lace silhouettes, a jacket embroidered with tiny deer and monkeys, a buttoned skirt suit with a quilted plastron jacket adorned with intricate animals or a coat dress embroidered with cats.
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These are some extraordinary details testifying the extreme savoir faire of the Chanel workshops. Add bow ties, white gloves, top hats, golden or white laced ankle boots to magnify these unique pieces. At the end of the show comes the bride.
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Model Anna Ewers emerged from the giant elephant wearing a white silk camisole dress edged with ruffles and embroidered with tone-on-tone sequin swallows in flight. What better way to fly away in the imaginary world of Haute Couture?
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The day after the show, 600 students from various art, fashion and design leading French schools were invited to discover the show decor. Bruno Pavlovsky, President of CHANEL SAS and President of le 19M explained that the idea was to understand this absolutely unique and exceptional creative dialogue between Xavier and Virginie. Through this kind of great initiative, Chanel reaffirms its commitment to the transmission of knowledge to schools and universities. Students are allowed to experience and understand some facets of the world of Parisian couture. Haute couture needs to be preserved as its creativity and savoir faire are some of the keys of fashion history.
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Furthermore, last week, Chanel announced that its Cruise 2024 collection would be presented in Los Angeles on May 9, 2023. The city of Angels is the starting point of the adventure between Gabrielle Chanel and the cinema. In 1931, Coco Chanel was invited by Sam Goldwyn to Hollywood. The story has since been reinvented and reinterpreted with brio. We cannot wait to see what happens next.
