"Fashion goes out of fashion, the look is timeless", said Gabrielle Chanel.
It is precisely this look that is in question in this spring summer 2023 collection, embodied by Kristen Stewart.
In a short video produced by the duo Inez & Vinoodh, the actress and Chanel ambassador leaves Champo, the capital's emblematic art house cinema, after a screening of the film
L'Année dernier à Marienbad
.
“Whether it's her, or the other women I dress, I need to feel that they like the garment anyway.
But, of the people around me, she is the closest to Gabrielle Chanel, at least from the idea that I have of her.
She understands Chanel, her garment.
And with it, it becomes even more modern.
This collection,
If the inspiration is cinematographic, it is multiple, like a collage, it brings together images, lasting memories, which the designer offers here as a free stroll, offering variations on the theme of the look at the Grand Palais Éphémère.
A look in black and white where black is sometimes matte, sometimes shiny, treated like a color.
The silhouette, like Gabrielle Chanel, is that of a pioneer, an avant-garde woman, fulfilled, who assumes transparency, displays her body and her legs, in a camisole and black leather shorty set. with lace details, in white fishnet stockings or even naked under a shawl collar tuxedo jacket.
We find there the Chanel attitude, the elegant allure of Delphine Seyrig in the famous film by Alain Resnais mentioned above,
restored in 2018 thanks to the house.
But also the fashion of Karl Lagerfeld, and all the house fashion signatures - bows, boas, rhinestone ankle boots, jersey, sequins, unstructured prints and pastel tweeds.
A devotion to heritage welcomed by the celebrities present during the parade: Kristen Stewart like Charlotte Casiraghi, Diane Kruger, Lyna Khoudri, Naomi Campbell, Stromae or even Jennie from Black Pink.
