Karl Lagerfeld plays the Sun King to Cara Delevingne’s Marie Antoinette. Chanel’s Resort 2013 collection was showcased amid the spectacular playing fountains and waterfalls of Louis XIV’s gardens, with the sun blazing in an exceptional burst.
Drapery of the eighteenth century, would be quite heavy, but the light fabrics lent them a certain airiness. The collection includes gorgeous pastel-colored pannier dresses, foppish, gilded eighteenth-century jackets, ruffly-skirted milkmaid silhouettes and wholly twenty-first-century variants on denim and shorts, paraded by china doll-wigged models, sporting platform trainers that gave the outfits a hip-hop vibe and playful charm.
