Chanel Spring 2021 Couture Collection

Chanel Spring 2021 Couture Collection

This season, Chanel’s creative director Virginie Viard was hearing wedding bells on the rue Cambon—not her own, she’s been happily partnered to composer Jean-Marc Fyot, the man she describes as “my fiance,” for a quarter of a century—but instead the bells ringing for a marriage party composed of her haute couture cabine, some 32 models in all.

These are not, as Viard says, the conventional fancy nuptials one might expect from a Parisian couture collection, but instead “more bohemian style—more a wedding or a family celebration in a village than at the Ritz!” complete with “the mother and the aunt, [and] the 15-year-old girl dressing up for the first time”—the latter in a tiny little grown-up black dress of spangled black tulle worn with 1980s opaque white tights.

There are also boys at this wedding, or rather girls who, in Viard’s words, are “a little garçonne” and dressed in old fashioned boys’ clothes—tweedy Oxford bags, and waistcoats for instance, a reminder of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s appropriations of menswear in her designs, and her literal borrowing from the wardrobes of her lovers including Boy Capel and the Duke of Westminster. The mother of the bride, meanwhile, has some chic little suits in silvery embroidery and lace to choose from, or a skinny shrunken cardigan jacket embroidered by Vernoux, while more adventurous guests might opt for a lace jumpsuit or a tiny tweed coat dress with a ruffled overskirt to tie on like an apron. There are “a lot of flounces and petticoats,” says Viard, as though the Gypsy Kings were playing at the celebration and the guests in those big tulle skirts were going to spin around the town square. “There is a masculine/feminine side to the silhouettes,” she adds, and the fairy-tale grandeur of these pale net ballgowns is brought into the real world when those skirts are paired with white boyfriend shirts, or singlets of crocheted chiffon, worked by the embroidery house of Montex.

To set the scene, the Grand Palais has been transformed this season to evoke the charm of a country wedding in the South of France (the sunshine bright enough for the guests to wear Jacqueline Onassis–scale sunglasses), with rustic arches wrapped in flowers, wooden chairs for the socially distanced guests, and coronets of silk as well as real flowers in the hair—the first time, as far as Viard knows, that Lemarié, fabled for their exquisite artificial flowers, have also worked with the real McCoy.

Chanel加價店鋪現人龍 漠視逆市價格大幅調整：Chanel 2.55手袋、Boy Chanel、Classic加多少？

Chanel經典款手袋最值得投資！除了Classic、Boy Chanel之外還有這些款

今次Chanel加價就以大熱款式為主，經典款如Classic、2.55、Boy Chanel及近年大熱的Gabrielle及Chanel 19 紛紛入圍，升幅由5-17%不等。現在不單是「早買早享受」，加價前入手更即時省幾千，粉絲們即時鎖定心儀手袋吧！

最值得投資的Chanel袋款第一位：Chanel Classic Chanel Classic是Karl Lagerfeld 1983年加盟品牌後的設計，以經典2.55手袋作概念，保留具代表性的菱格紋縫線，換上金銀雙色金屬鍊節穿皮鏈帶，獨一無二的雙C標誌鎖釦，屬品牌經典款式之一。

Chanel Classic手袋的中size款式自2010年後期間8年間已升價70%，今次亦不例外，成眾多款式中的加價之冠。根據外國專門撰寫名牌手袋消息的網站Purse Blog指，Classic款式今次增幅由14％-17%不等，mini size更高達25%，難怪一直是女士心目中最值得投資的時尚單品。

最值得投資的Chanel袋款第二位：Chanel 2.55 Chanel 2.55是品牌歷史最悠久的款式，源自Coco Chanel在1955年2月創製了別具一格的長方型手袋，並以這日期命名。長方型的 Mademoiselle lock較 Classic款式來得低調、含蓄。

Chanel 2.55手袋今次加幅亦緊隨Classic 款式，高達14.5% - 20.9% 不等，同樣亦是是size愈細，加幅愈多。