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DREAM JOB
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHILIPPE JARRIGEON STYLING BY VICTOIRE SIMONNEY All couture looks, Chanel Haute Couture.
For its fall/winter 2013 showing of haute couture this past summer, Chanel constructed a theater in what appeared to be a post-apoca-lyptic ruin inside Paris’s Grand Palais, where creative director Karl Lagerfeld is known to present larger-than-life sets each season. A caved-in wall onstage revealed a backdrop of what resembled a megacity of the future—an apt setting for a collection that Lagerfeld calls “a transition from the old world to the new world.” In one look, strips of geometric vinyl in black and white add a textural touch to a long-sleeved fine-tulle dress; in another, miniskirts cov-ered in square tiles resemble window-clad skyscrapers. This season, the famed couture pleat atelier Gérard Lognon—a longtime Chanel collaborator—introduces new techniques and materials: In addition to pleating blouses in flowing silk, Lognon origami-folded organza, leather, and crèpe de chine, adding a 3-D effect to jack-ets, skirts, and gowns. This redefinition of embroidery techniques suggests that Chanel’s couture continues to evolve, while keep-ing the brand’s signature tweeds, black-and-whites, and sculptured suiting intact. —Justin Min
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Boxy jacket with shirt collar and matching belted skirt embroidered with black-leather and white-organza origami. Gray suede skirt.
Previous spread: Belted dress embroidered with silk chiffon origami, with superposed organza handkerchiefs on sleeves.
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Belted dress in silk tulle embroidered with silk chiffon petals.
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Belted dress in tulle and organza, embroidered with white satin origami.
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From left: Belted dress in black tulle embroidered with square-pattern upright vinyl strips, worn with matching bolero. Belted tunic in black tulle embroidered with thin strips of gray organza, worn over a long transparent skirt in silk tulle.
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Dress in leather satin, with skirt in embroidered tulle origami. Boat-neck collar coat in black leather satin embroidered with multicolored origami.
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Long coat in leather satin embroidered with chiffon origami, worn with matching long bustier dress.
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Boat-neck collar coat in black leather satin embroidered with multicolored origami. Makeup: Aude Gil at Studio 57 and Kazue Deki at Callisté. Producer: Chloé Nataf at Total Management. Photo assistants: Ugo Vannier and Audrey Danguy. Retouching: Hatim El Hihi at Maison de Correction.
Models: Lisskulla at Tara, Gwenola at Just WM, and Tiffany at Just WM. Location: USM showroom, Paris. Special thanks: Pascal Buisson.
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