Models: Saskia de Brauw (VIVA),Stella Tennant (VIVA),Freja Beha Erichsen (IMG),Sasha Pivovarova (IMG),Julia Nobis (ELITE),Aymeline Valade (WOMEN),Arizona Muse (NEXT),Mirte Maas (WOMEN),Danielle Zinaich (IMG),Kinga Rajzak (IMG),Kasia Struss (WOMEN),Patricia van der Vliet (ELITE),Sara Blomqvist (VIVA)Caroline Brasch Nielsen (ELITE),Iris Egbers (WOMEN),Ginta Lapina (WOMEN),Liu Wen (MARILYN),Claire Collins and more.... Karl Lagerfeld recently acquired a full set of stills from 1927's apocalyptic sci-fi classic Metropolis, signed by the film's director Fritz Lang to its young star Brigitte Helm. It was sheer coincidence, however, that there was a Metropolis feel to the set for today's Chanel haute couture show. Or was it? The backdrop for the presentation was a neon-limned mock-up of the Place Vendôme, with Napoleon replaced at the top of his column by a robot Coco. (In Lang's movie, a mad scientist makes a robot replica of Helm.) The set was dark and glistening, like rain had just fallen. A perfect film noir atmosphere, in other words. And Lagerfeld had the perfect script for it—Coco's own life story. At least that was one way to look at a collection that seemed to chop through time. It clearly wasn't a chronological arc. The show opened with Chanel tweed suits, which didn't make their appearance until the twenties, and it closed with "lamp shade" evening silhouettes that echoed the work of Paul Poiret, the early twentieth-century Parisian designer whom Chanel helped render <b>...</b>
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Daniel
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