'Camellia is more than a theme, it's an eternal code,' creative director Virginie Viard said. 'I like its softness and its strength.'
Camellias that towered 5m high served as the ready-to-wear altarpiece for Chanel's sparkling, bloom-inspired fall display.
It was the flower that launched a thousand designs. Legend has it that the camellia first became Gabrielle"Coco" Chanel's obsession in 1913 when she pinned one to her belt – seduced, the house said, by its"simplicity, shape, purity and vitality". More than a century later, the winter flower is still centre stage.
"Camellia is more than a theme, it's an eternal code," creative director Virginie Viard said."I like its softness and its strength."As ever, there was a restraint in Viard's design aesthetic, for instance, in the use of a limited palette of whites, shadowy blacks and shades of pink. The camellia, too, was handled strictly, adorning pockets, buttons and jackets, prints or leather shoes.
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