The name Chanel is something that everybody heard of and it is certainly not a name that you can just ignore. This high fashion house remained in history for the major contribution that it had in the fashion nowadays.
And for this spring, Karl Lagerfeld, the designer of Chanel, came with a couture collection that was just astonishing. The entire collection was made from ecological materials, especially “made from wild cotton” like Karl Lagerfeld declared. “This is high fashion ecology. It must not look like some sloppy demonstration!”, he said. All the materials are handmade and took infinite hours to create them, but they can last for a longer period of time, looking exactly the same in ten or twenty years. But even if the entire collection it is made from ecological materials, it is made for luxury.
The collection was predominantly for women. The dresses and the skirts were long and covering the knees. The construction of the pieces was not too complicated, apparently. There was a very clear contrast between small and big, between a cloth made from 2 pieces sewn together and a cloth made from hundred of pieces, put together in the same context. And, of course, there was a contrast between different materials. There were shiny, opaque, fluffy, thin, thick, see-through materials that were embroidered and combined in a unique way. 
Straight lines are the element that is used for creating the looks. These lines can be found in the prints, in the way that materials were made, in the sewings, in the combination of elements like squares, which are made from lines, even in the makeup that the models were wearing at the presentation. In some of the items these lines are combined with circles, a thing that can be found even in the hair style of the models.
The colors that were used were white, black, pale pink, pale and light brown, gray, and the combination between them. But there were not the colors that would catch your eye. What made this collection so special were the tiny little details that the clothes had. Like the little purse that the model had, or the sewings that were visible and bolded to create a visual effect that will capture your eyes. 
The presentation took place at Grand Palais in Paris. The scene was decorated with stairs (lines again), a flat podium made from wood (the colors that were used in the collection), and after the models presented what they were wearing, they have taken their place in the big wooden boxes, that had two levels. In the end of the presentation, when Karl Lagerfeld appeared, the image created was similar with a supra dimensioned Barbie house. Probably Barbie is a little bit too much in association with Chanel, but it certainly looked like a huge doll house. And I, personally, find this kind of presentation very interesting and unique.
I must say that this is one of my favorite couture collection from Chanel, and I cannot wait till the next one.
The sources
1. Vogue official page http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2016-couture/chanel
2. Chanel official page http://www.chanel.com/en_US/fashion/haute-couture.html
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