Chanel’s cruise show was a punk-inspired ode to Jean Cocteau

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Chanel’s cruise show was a punk-inspired ode to Jean Cocteau! The French house’s latest collection was almost entirely black and white, full of nods to punk icons and the early 20th century artist:

, which was shot in the very same location and starred the likes of Pablo Picasso to Brigitte Bardot.In particular this magnificent scene: a man with a black horse's head descends into the Carrières de Lumières, his silhouette cut out against the very white walls,” Virginie explained. “The simplicity, the precision and the poetry of Cocteau's film made me want to create a very clean collection, with a very distinct two-tone, made up of bright white and deep black.

The connection between the fashion house and the French artist goes way back. He and Coco Chanel were great friends — she was the pioneering couturier and entrepreneur; he was the multi-disciplinary artist, poet, playwright and filmmaker. Both had an influence on early 20th century culture, and they often worked together, too.

In the collection, a handful of diaphanous silk dresses were printed with the kind of graphic illustrative patterns that Cocteau was known for, and here and there were leather trousers hand-painted with Cocteau’s actual illustrations of stars , waffle-knit sweaters with the French artist’s doves of peace, and glittering embroideries of lions, fauns, camels and sphinxes — all animals Virginie borrowed from Coco’s famously preserved apartment.

 

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