PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) – French style label Chanel took to a darkened runway for artistic director Virginie Viard’s fall-winter assortment on Tuesday, exhibiting a glamorous line-up infused with references to a key model image, the camellia flower.
The whole set was constructed round towering, white camellia sculptures that confronted the viewers, seated in steep risers ringing the house, a sprawling exhibition corridor south of the Eiffel Tower.
Projected onto the enormous camellias have been pictures of Nana Komatsu, styled to resemble the Nineteen Sixties movie character Polly Maggoo, with thick eyeliner and a modern coiffure that curled up on the backside.
The label’s ubiquitous camellia appeared all through the present, labored into the patterns of sweeping overcoats and clothes, rendered as stark white three-dimensional elaborations on all-black ensembles, and cropping up as a patch of black flowers adorning the collar of a slick black jacket.
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Most seems to be have been black and white, paraded by fashions striding on shiny black platform boots, typically with patterned white tights. Bermuda shorts and matching jackets, loose-legged jumpsuits and tweed ensembles have been accessorized with the label’s signature jewellery – chained belts, earrings and swinging necklaces that sparkled down the runway.
For the finale, the huge camellia sculptures immediately glowed crimson, and slowly shifted between crimson and a vibrant pink as fashions rounded the room.
The catwalk presentation was held on the ultimate day of Paris Style Week, which drew crowds of celebrities to the French capital, and featured big-name labels together with Hermes, Valentino, LVMH-owned (LVMH.PA) Dior and Louis Vuitton, Kering-owned (PRTP.PA) labels Saint Laurent and Balenciaga.
Reporting by Mimosa Spencer
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