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1. The location was Germany's Hamburg, specifially the Elbphilharmonie concert hall, one of the largest in the world . Hamburg is also where Lagerfeld was originally from. (Image: @bagaholicboy)
2. With the venue like that, naturally the music had to be live, complete with a full orchestra. The show attendees became the audience as "La Paloma" played in the background, conducted by British cellist Oliver Coates. (Image: Olivier Saillant)
3. The door gifts were binoculars, the perfect accompaniment in the massive concert hall. (Image: @i_am_an_editor)
4. Hamburg was and is still known as a port, so naturally the theme was a sailor-inspired, nautical one. Buoys were worked into the accessories, from brooches to pins. (Image: @parissocialdiary)
5. Chanel's accessory of the moment is the elbeseglers, which is German for sailor cap. Yet Chanel another hat guaranteed to fly off the shelves. As for the beauty look of the moment: navy blue smokey eyes and petal peach lips. (Image: @voguegermany)
6. The hats weren't just in the conventional black. Chanel shows everyone who's boss in the hat department with caps of tweeds and metallics. (Image: @gersonlirio)
7. The guys, on the other hand, went all out sailor. Sailor caps, chunky navy knits and a pipe for effect. (Image: Vogue.com)
8. Bags were aplenty, from sailor bags (that honestly make the perfect carry-on bag) to double-bags to cylindrical purses to, perhaps our favourite of them all, a cross-body shaped like an accordion. (Image: Vogue.com)
9. There are the sailors and then there are the sweethearts left behind at the port, draping tulle over the sailor caps. But, as always, the femininity is contrasted with double-breasted mini blazers. (Image: Vogue.com)
10. Another nod-nod-wink-wink to the whole seafaring theme? Mermaid braids by hair extraordinaire Sam McKnight. (Image: @sammcknight1)
11. The theme may have been nautical, but there was plenty of mod sixties going on as well with multi-coloured square checks. (Image: @chanelofficial)
12. In case you didn't get the memo that mini skirt suits are back, let this be your final call. Mini skirts with black tights? A faux pas no longer. (Image: @gersolirio)
13. Among the bevy of dresses were three tuxedo-inspired looks (and one more on little Hudson Kroenig). A feminine tuxedo for the coming holiday parties? That's an idea. (Images: Vogue.com)
14. A glittery jacket and palazzo pant was perhaps the most deserving of a Kira Kira moment. (Image: Cleo Glover)
15. No nautical themed collection is completely without stripes, but don't count on Chanel to go for the run-of-the-mill. Instead, stripes were worked as an embroidery into a single look. (Image: @chanelofficial)
15 Things You May Have Missed From Chanel’s Metiers d’Art in Hamburg
Of the sea, sailors and their sweethearts. Here, we pick out the blink-and-miss details, silhouettes and references from last night's incredible show.
| December 7, 2017Before we begin, it is necessary to understand that Chanel’s Metiers d’Art isn’t technically a pre-fall collection. It is also necessary to understand that Chanel doesn’t do things like everyone else. Such is the Metiers d’Art show, Chanel’s annual affair that turns the spotlight on the precise, intricate work of their craftsmen. This season, Chanel shipped one and all to the city of Hamburg, one of Germany’s busiest ports and Karl Lagerfeld’s birthplace where he spent his youth before sailing to France.
With adventurous waters just a stone’s throw away, Chanel took to the nautical for inspiration. Ships, sailors and their sweethearts back home. The venue was the colossal Elbphilharmonie, one of the biggest and most state-of-art concert halls in the world, complete with an orchestra and chilling music. Chanel’s Metiers d’Art was a runway show no longer – it was a performance. (The show attendees were even given binoculars as if at the opera.)
There were sailor hats and collars, buoys, stripes, raincoats, cruise-ready wide-legged cropped trousers that Mademoiselle Chanel herself would have loved for her many boat trips and chunky knits as far as the eye can see, but there was also a surprise in the form of mod sixties-inspired checked patterns and punchy orange, pinks and blues. Everything was merged together with incredible styling, bound to inspire many in the winter to come. In case you missed it, browse our gallery above for 15 moments worth a second look from Chanel’s Metiers d’Art 2018.
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