CHANEL

Karl Lagerfeld delivered an ethereal collection for Chanel. Easy, soft, light! It was a revolutionary collection which made couture seem less avant-garde and more comfortable. The great selection of pastel colors and the mind blowing embroidery, which was still down-to-earth, are characteristics found in haute couture collections often, but what was ground breaking was the use of jean fabric (there were some jeans actually!), ballet flats (all of them), t-shirt like blouses and the minimal use of heavy dark colors. All these made it look young and fresh but in fact, in my opinion, this is the essence of true luxury. Buying these pieces of art, with extreme amount of work behind them, and making them look normal, comfortable almost invisible.

This collection reminded me of a woman, just like Marie Antoinette, fascinated by Jean Jacques Rousseau's "back to nature" philosophy, looking for beauty in clothes that allow human moves!

Marie Antoinette is one of the movies that I enjoy watching most. It relaxes me. At some point, the soul-of-the-party girl, Marie Antoinette, gets tired of all social activities, extreme costumes and high heels and gets obsessed with nature. She gets lost in fields, spends time with her children and her animals, goes for a stroll at the lake all, in airy, light gowns. Easy luxury!

Maybe the adorable genius, Karl, wanted to take women back to nature, back to air. He probably wants them to live again without stress, just relaxed. But still make them look immaculate in extraordinary pieces of art! I felt that this was the message of the collection, and it was a phenomenal Chanel collection anyway!