Sure enough, the jacket’s form was working as perfectly as Kuskus. “I like the classic Chanel,” added Veilhan, “and I like sport and it’s funny to think that the Chanel tailleur is something you can wear for playing golf, or riding a horse.” To prove his point, the show opened with Monaco’s Princess Charlotte, dressed in a Chanel jacket, riding the beautiful eight year old Spanish bay horse Kuskus (that would explain the sand runway), first in an elegant “collected walk,” then a canter. “In fact, I found some notes from Karl in Rodchenko and Malevich books that he always gave me-so many books and documents with notes on details that could be used for embroidery and so on. ![]() Me, I can’t do that! He loves Constructivism, that kind of thing which is so Karl!” she continued. “I love his work and I needed someone to work with for the sets-the way Karl did. “I always wanted to work with him because he did something for Chanel jewelry 15 years ago in Place Vendome, a great installation,” Viard said. To set the scene, Viard reached out to the artist Xavier Veilhan whom she met at the home of their mutual friend, musician Sébastien Tellier. ![]() “I was inspired by the ’20s a little-the feathers, the fringe,” Viard continued, “the feminine side of the Constructivists, the girl inside!” ![]() “It’s a summer collection, so it’s very fresh, even with a lot of embroideries,” explained Chanel’s artistic director Virginie Viard during a fitting in the Chanel studios on the eve of the showing of her thistledown-light haute couture collection.
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