The Anti-Chanel Thread

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There's been a Chanel thread recently.

I'm agin modern Chanel.

I honestly don't get it.

I understand Chanel's ethos and desire.

Modern Chanel leaves me cold. I find it all aesthetically displeasing.

I'm all for floating your boat, but not a quilted and logoed one.

I'm happy to be told I'm wrong.

I don't understand Chanel's house aesthetic.

Enlighten me.

I went to an exhibition of the work of the textile designer Bernat Klein a few months ago. He made tweed fabric for Chanel in the 1960s. Amazing stuff.
www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/global-arts-cultures-and-design/bernat-klein-collection/

I'm wearing Prada trousers right now, they flow and hang so well, a Gabriella Hearst cashmere tank, it's like smoke, it hovers around my body.

An Alexander Mcqueen blazer (blazers are apparently naff, see another thread in S&B).

By Far mules.

I effing love clothes.

I don't get the Chanel love when it comes to bags, I find them unattractively ostentatious and totally not my thing. I like a designer bag, but I want it subtle and not shouty with big logos. I have a couple each from Mulberry and Strathberry. Not the height of fashion these days, but they work for me and my style.

I'm a total fragrance nut, but apart from No. 19 EDT and Cristalle I can't seem to gel with Chanel.

I love blazers, but mine are more Boden and Hush. I don't do designer clothes.

I LOVE this.

What's more - I understand! 😁

Aha @4plusthehound I've had a few brilliant outfits recently

Black CO dress with white pointy Dear Frances boots.

Massively wide MaxMara trousers with a backless MaxMara cable knit and The Row Ginzas.

I must have missed the blazers are naff thread, I shall go on oblivious.

I've been pondering on this further and why Chanel specifically irks. I can't fault the fabrics, the impeccable petit mains at the ateliers and craftsmanship employed externally. And I think that's the rub, its parts all please me individually but not the sum of it. At the end of the day it does all feel like the acceptable face of ostentatiousness and I just don't feel like playing along, there's no beauty or interesting design in it. At least Karl Lagerfeld had an injection of humour in it all and I could appreciate that, but that was about all I could appreciate in his designs.

But it's a conundrum with these heritage brands they either go on with stale reinterpretations of house codes and risk becoming irrelevant or they change course completely and lose their core audience. I'm not sure what I'd choose if I were in charge, for the entertainment value I'd hire Hedi Slimane just to watch everyone lose their shit 🙈

Hope you had a nice birthday, OP🎂

It would be interesting to hear the opinions of the Chanel clients spending £50k+ per year on clothing and bags. It’s not for everyone but for those who love it they really do buy into it. It’s also a huge Instagram and social media titan across the world especially with younger people so Virginie’s vision and its current aesthetic must truly resonate with that demographic to warrant that level of success.

The notion of quality and longevity will matter to those buying once in a lifetime pieces but for a large segment of Chanel fans they buy continually often in volume so it doesn’t need to last 10 years as they’ll have bought 10 or 50 other bags since.

it's like smoke, it hovers around my body.
Sounds like you need an exorcist

There is something about clothing that just fits well. It is almost like a second skin.

🤣🤣
Spot on

@Brrrrrrrrrrrr I spend 40k+ a year on clothes.

I still don't get Chanel.

Not specifically about Chanel (it covers other luxury brands too), but I though this article in the FT was very interesting, it’s about the business of handbags, the materials, and the markups:
What are the true costs of making your handbag?
https://on.ft.com/3n9WUON

Not sure what your income has to do with understanding/appreciating a designer?

What do you want, a round of applause?

There are plenty of brands, be they luxury, high end and high street that I don't get, yet never once have I felt the need to start a sneery thread on Mumsnet about any of them.

Rather than being the agent provocateur you believe yourself to be, all you're doing with threads and comments like this is highlighting not only your vulgarity, but your belief that your opinions about everything supersede all others.

PS. Spending 40k a year on clothes doesn't mean anything other than you spend 40k a year on clothes. Shame you can't buy yourself some humility and manners.

That is very funny.

I'm not an agent provocateur. Nonsense.

Neither am I 'vulgar', I couldn't give a shit about vulgarity. The idea of vulgarity is hilarious.

I fucking love vulgarity.

Its

It's hilarious.

But also quite fucking good.