Pre-Fall 2013 Chanel

PRE-FALL 2013

Chanel

LINLITHGOW, DECEMBER 4, 2012

by TIM BLANKS

http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/pre-fall-2013/chanel

"Dressed to kilt." Get real, how else was Karl Lagerfeld going to define the collection he showed for Chanel outside of Edinburgh tonight? The tweeds, the knits, the cardigans, the man-styled essence of Chanel all came from Scotland and the time that Coco spent there with her lover the Duke of Westminster. But tonight's venue was Linlithgow Palace, where Mary, Queen of Scots, was born almost exactly seven centuries ago, and her tragic life gave Lagerfeld the perfect opportunity to gloss Chanel's easy pragmatism with an element of doomed romance. It was a fantastic combination.

Maybe that's because it was kind of personal for the designer. The first French poem he ever learned, at the age of six, was all about Mary. Then there's that umbilical connection between Scotland and France, which history recognizes as the Grand Alliance. And in Lagerfeld's team tonight, he had Sam McKnight on hair and Stella Tennant on all-round fabulosity. In other words, there was something quintessentially Scottish in the air. "Barbarian romance," Lagerfeld called it.

Model: Esther Heesch

Model: Cara Delevingne

Model: Sara Blomqvist

Even though the theme throughout the 2013 show is based on the Scottish tweeds, the knits and the cardigans its know to have elements of the Elizabethan Era between the hair, garments and colours. However in certain aspects of the hair style I feel it can represent a modern 60's beehive. The style is sturdy and high, slick at the sides and volumised at the top with waves and finished with accessories.

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Above is a backstage photo of the back of the hair design, braids are very in right now and modernize styles such as this one. I really like the braids going up the back of the head and think it looks really good and creative, I'm really into braids as well at the moment and love incorporating them into hair designs. The french braids in the photo go up the back of the head and then turn into normal plaits and join the rest of the hair into a beehive. I feel and element like this could be used in my design to give it a modern contemporary look. The make-up in the Chanel show was very simple with natural flawless faces, nude/pink lips and occasionally graphic eyeliner which is also a close look to the 1960's style and the hair is modernized with large jewellery and hair pieces.

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I think this close up of the pre-fall 2013 look to me looks very modern 1960's the hair is up in a wavy beehive and the graphic black liner which was very popular in the 60's, the jewels give it the modern/fashion vibe. In the 60's they did tend to have a fringe of so sort, either a middle parting or swooping side with some volume however I think having all the hair up off the face in a beehive is very modern and current.