Chanel Does Country – Really.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Chanel Does Country – Really.

Okay a small fashion moment this morning, please. Can we just ponder for a second?

It is a moment courtesy of Garance Dore – my new heroine.

You have to seriously love a girl who writes this about herself:

“Seriously though, there’s always this side to me that ends up utterly unorganized, that can’t get its act together to be the perfectly manicured creature of light that I would sometimes like to be.”

I have been feeling a bit like that off and on for the last month.

I dream to have a tea (or other beverage) with Garance and Scott. I would like to interview and photograph the two of them...

I have thought so often about a post that Scott did in August called “So What Do We Think About This.”

The quote below has really stuck with me. In my constant berating of myself because extra weight that came with having Maggie at 44, I shy away from cameras and photos like most other women. Perhaps this should be reconsidered:

“When I am shooting on the street older women and larger size women often say "no" to my request to shoot them. Actually, much more than any other category of people I shoot. I think they have a real suspicion about how the image will be used. I also think there continues to be a growing disconnect between the fashion community and "average" women in general.”

BUT back to today, nobody captured the mood of the Chanel like Garance. Please go read her post and look at her photos. Karl Lagerfeld does country with Lily Allen singing. Really? I am not sure why this shocks me so… Please tell me what you think.

Garance sees a time coming soon when fashion shows will be like rock concerts.

Are The Songbirds are singing?

*Photo Garance Dore

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 11:40.

‘I’m from the country, darling,’ Lagerfeld told reporters after the show. ‘I hear all this talk about organic farming and the environment and things, and I’m all for it. But there must be a certain sophistication, so it’s not used as an excuse to let things go to seed,’ he said. I cannot stop laughing at the thought of fabulous fashionistas swooning over Karl's hay-filled orgy, all while tending to their hay fever. Karl pretended to frolic among the peasants, making a show of rubbing shoulders with the great unwashed (aka environmental friendliness). According to those that know about these things, this is the new fabulous. But, truly: it is really time for the giant fashion gods on Mount Fashion Week to stop patronizing consumers. I will go ahead and say it: Emperor Karl has no clothes.