During the past two days, the news about an annual Chanel’s Metiers d’Art 2016/17 show at The Ritz Paris went viral on the internet. Honestly, I had not heard about this collection before, but reading the posts and photos posted by those well-known magazines and celebrities on the social media sites, it drove me to do some research about this line. What is it all about? Does it different from the Chanel seasonal show?
When Metiers D’Art established: 2002
Show Time: Annual basis
What Metiers D’Art Means: The phrase Metiers D’Art signifies that an atelier skilled in the art of craftsmanship worked on the collection, using specific textiles and knits (stylecaster, 2012).
Why Metiers D’Art: Chanel’s Métiers d’Art line aims to honoring the fine craftsmanship that its artisan partners bring to the house’s collections (Vogue Paris, 2016). The creative director Karl Lagerfeld believes that through the witnessable and touchable experience of the collection, as well as understanding the manufacturing process of the apparel, people would truly figure out that craftsmanship is a term of expressing the spirit of an art (Harper’s Bazaar Taiwan, 2016).
Where Metiers D’Art take place: The runway show that takes place outside the traditional fashion schedule, each year, Chanel turns to a different location to pay tribute to the workshops that provide the house with everything from lace to silver buttons and fine embroidery work (Vogue Paris, 2016). After Rome last year, Salzburg in 2014 and previous shows in Dallas, Edinburgh, Mumbai and New York, Chanel will be staying at home for Métiers d’Art 2016 and showing at Gabrielle Chanel’s former home, the newly re-opened Ritz, in Paris (Vogue Paris, 2016).
Who are the partners: Desrues (costume jeweler and accessory maker), Lemarié, (feather and flower maker), Massaro (bootmaker), Lesage (embroiderer), Montex (embroiderer), Goossens (jeweler and goldsmith), Maison Michel (milliner), Guillet (corsage and floral decoration maker), Causse (glove maker), Barrie Knitwear (cashmere producer), Lognon (pleater) (Vogue Paris, 2016).
When will the collection be on shelf: The following year of May
Source: British Vogue (2016)
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