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Chanel pays homage to the camellia in 66 figures of style

2023-03-07T15:25:04.095Z


Virginie Viard offers Paris a bouquet of camellias, revisiting the emblem of the Chanel house in all its forms for the fall-winter 2023-2024 show.


Emblematic flower of the Chanel house, the camellia, native to Asia, does not fear the frost and blooms during the winter, almost three months of the year.

In short, timeless, like the creations of the house which crosses fashions while remaining faithful to its DNA and its symbols, such as this flower which appeared in the 1920s on the belt of Gabrielle Chanel's marinière on a beach in Normandy.

In 1923, she stitched it on a chiffon dress to enhance it.

A signature is born.

Blossoming of graphic camellias in black and white at Chanel for the fall-winter 2023-2024 collection.

EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP

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Softness and strength

“The Camellia is more than a theme, it is an eternal code of the house.

It is reassuring and familiar to me, I like its softness and its strength,” says Virginie Viard.

This season, the artistic director of the label gives it a multiple face, and declines it in 66 silhouettes.

Offering a thousand and one varieties, she affixes it as a bush on the collar of a black leather coat, sprinkles it over a jacket, a sweater, reworks it into a quilted 2.55 bag clasp, a sculpted button or a barrette.

It signs the top of a flannel T-shirt as well as a Louis XVI buckled shoe.

The essence of charm at Chanel for the fall-winter 2023-2024 collection.

BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS

Variations

Beneath the immense petals of a giant camellia in the center of the podium, the Chanel floral icon appears from the smallest to the most spectacular, from the most obvious to the most elaborate, very couture, sculpted or embroidered.

Bringing a scent of softness to next winter's fashion, the collection exudes supreme elegance, a

mix and match

of black and white punctuated with pink and touches of red.

Sweet perfume for the fall-winter 2023-2024 collection.

BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS

Transformed into a three-dimensional minaudière, hidden in the lace of white tights or on the powder pink lining of a tweed coat, the camellia imposes itself everywhere.

A Chanel must-have masterfully embellished under the eyes of Penélope Cruz, Jennie from the Black Pink, Rebecca Marder and Charlotte Casiraghi or even the iconic Patti Smith.

Source: lefigaro

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