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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