: In an exquisite collection - as delicate as it was romantic - Karl Lagerfeld took Chanel to where even Coco herself had never plunged: the ocean bed. Whorls of conches, fan-shaped scallops and a hint of a pink tint were worked into draped skirts, jacket sleeves and tulle dresses that all showed a different and rounded facet of linear Chanel. "Coquille Chanel!" quipped Lagerfeld in a pun on the French word for shell. A book on the underwater world had inspired him to translate, with the incomparable Chanel workrooms, the transparent lightness, swirling watery movement and plankton fronds into...
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