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“Who is your favourite historic personality?”
“Coco Chanel”
“Your actual favourite personality?”
“Coco Chanel”
A hint uniting his whole inspiration.
Rigorous cut.
Absolute simplicity.
Accessories as essential elements.
Narrative methods taken from the Chanel revolution.
Known from the first models.
20’s style jackets with shawl necklines having swan edges.
And bare 30’s style tailleurs, hat adhering to the face.
His style as a base for many revisited versions.
Always interpreted with a different spirit.
He never copied her.
For respect.
He considered her the Muse.
The unique.
He dedicated her gifts of love, an entire collections which entered to be part of fashion rare myths.
He met her once only.
In Paris.
Already at her fading, with thick make-up and a lot of jewels on.
And him, obsessed by the mature beauty, complete and perfect, dreamt that all women could look like her.
They would have been able to make their bracelets jingling on the wrists, could learn the art of being natural.
They would have learnt that luxury is a sweater on a black skirt.
He used to say that he could only fall in love with a Leo women.
Because Chanel’s sign was Leo.
“They are queens”.
With a background of great naivety.
And they are always alone because they use men as much as they need them, then they leave them”.
WALTER ALBINI
by Carla Sozzani
tests by Anna Masucci
