Mademoiselle Gabrielle, founder of the maison that bears her name, was the first to establish the bond of Chanel with Artistic careers. A long-lasting collaboration, whose promise (to enhance craftsmanship and creativity) was renewed again this year by the fashion show Chanel Métiers d'art 21-22, a retro journey through the time of the maison.
Chanel Métiers d'art 21
The synergies with the master craftsmen today are more dense than ever, and the parade Chanel Métiers d'art 2021 2022 is the proof of this. Embroiderers, feather makers, glove makers, leather workers, goldsmiths, silk and cashmere experts are just some of the skilled craftsmen who give France, Italy, Spain e Scotland allow the collections to come to life. There's more: today, for the first time in the history of the French fashion house, i Services of art they also have a physical place to work together and bring the creations they have shaped to life with a magical breath of life: le19M.
Located between the municipality of Aubervilliers and 19th arrondissement di Paris, le19M is the location chosen by Virginie viard to present the Métiers d'art 2021 2022 fashion show. The new site, which also houses the chair established by Chanel on expertise, was designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti and inaugurated this year.
Chanel Métiers d'art 21
"I asked Dimitri Chamblas (famous dancer trained at the Paris Opera, ed) to choreograph the film that was presented before the show - he explains in addition Virginie viard. -
Blazers, cardigans, dusters, down jackets, coats. It is to the outerwear that Virginie viard delegate once again, just as happened with the collection Chanel fashion Fall / Winter 2021 2022, the disruptive force of aesthetics inherited from Mademoiselle Gabrielle. And of artistic legacy - which the creative director reworks in a contemporary and metropolitan perspective - there is really a lot: each coat reworks the codes of the through the stylistic code of Viard, which draws from the archives and remains faithful to the soul of the brand.
“It is a very metropolitan but sophisticated collection - he comments Virginie viard, - with fleece-sleeved tweed jackets, graffiti-style embroidery made with colorful Lesage beads, voluminous bermuda shorts in purple or royal blue knits and casual coats worn open. Many of the embroideries are inspired by the very structure of the building, such as those by Montex, which are very graphic and in silver sequins ”.
Chanel Métiers d'art 21
The coats are long, sometimes very long, cut by characteristic slits (enhanced by the leggings worn immediately below), but there are also soft dusters, fitted blazers and oversized cardigans. Worn in turn as if they were outerwear, they are right i cardigan from the fashion show Métiers d'art 2021 2022 to echo the democratic dressing on which he relied so much Coco Chanel. Rebelling against the corsetry of Belle Epoque, Gabrielle favored a liberating aesthetic, emancipating herself from the canons of constriction of the female body. In his time, he obtained the jersey fabric from the manufacturing company Rodier and brought to conception the ensemble consisting of skirt, pullover and cardigan, where the latter knitwear item also served as an outerwear if necessary.
