Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture show pays tribute to the house’s ‘petites mains’

July 5, 2016 By creative

Haute couture has come to epitomize the pinnacle of glamour, to the extent that it can be easy to forget that the mythical creations seen on the world's red carpets once begun life as something as ordinary as a piece of fabric in the hands of a talented tailor. Karl Lagerfeld used the Chanel Fall/Winter 2016 couture presentation to celebrate the house's 'petites mains', meaning the talented team of artisans that beaver away in the brand's tailoring and dressmaking workshops on Paris's rue Cambon. “I thought that was a modern idea to make them participate,” explains Lagerfeld.

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture show pays tribute to the house’s ‘petites mains’

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A brief history of underwear exposed at London’s V&A

April 14, 2016 By publisher

“Fashion and underwear are inextricably linked,” Susanna Cordner, research assistant on the “Underwear” exhibition, told AFP. One of the exhibition's centre-pieces — a hand-made corset fashioned by an Englishwoman of modest means — shows that such complex items were not confined to high-society, but had to be worn by all women for fear of upsetting moral sensibilities. The show also reveals how men also used corsets and other garments to provide support while playing sport and to flatter the shape, but not nearly to the extent of the women of the age.

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