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Chanel takes eco couture approach
The celebrity mood garden
A huge “mood” garden decor— replete with a relaxation pond, forest and grass— greeted the 43- year- old Oscar- winner Paltrow, who posed for cameras in a checked Chanel skirt suit with high collar near some steps leading up to aminimalist wooden hut.
Paltrow, who curates healthy lifestyle publication “Goop,” looked around in awe, clearly approving of Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld’s newfound green musing.
Other celebrity attendees included actresses Monica Bellucci and Diane Kruger.
Ecological couture ( kind of )
Couture is not the industry most readily associated with ecology. But if it’s up to Lagerfeld, whose latest passion is the garden, things may well be about to change.
Aside from the show decor, all the jewelry and embroideries in the 75 Chanel looks were made from wood shavings, paper and straw.
They were, of course, given a Chanel- style makeover: fastidiously painted, treated and molded by the atelier into exquisite shapes and paillettes that resembled white feathers and flower petals.
“Ecology is something that’s never been used in high luxury before,” explained the couturier.
Bouchra Jarrar’s opposites
It was the masculine versus the feminine for lauded designer Bouchra Jarrar.
She presented a short but sweet collection that featured a recurring silhouette that unfurled at the chest organically.
Multiple- layered flying jackets with billowing lapels came on myriad looks of which the masculine edge was softened with panels of luxuriant fur.
Military jackets and military bellbottom pants— similarly— were matched with delicate materials, such as an ivory lace see- through top. The best looks were the simplest. A diaphanous draped silk gown was twinned with “don’t mess with me” military stomper boots.