Cool, Calm and Chic at Chloe

One designer smartly extending the fashion vernacular is Clare Waight Keller, whose latest collection for the house of Chloe was a clever amalgam of British rock-n-roll energy and chic Paris coolnd the body or sleeves, in.

Staged Monday afternoon, March 5, in the Espace Ephemere, a custom-built tent inside the Tuilleries Gardens, this fall 2012 collection had a stylish practicality that should make it a real commercial success and hip plausibility which will win it the right sort of movie star clientses/span, Blouses and dres. There has been a huge wave of Chinese movie stars this season taking seats in the front row of major Paris showsches, like a model balanced on a . Their names mean little to the assembled Westerners, but their presence marks an important new chapter in fashion; and at no show have they looked better than at Chloe, beaming as they posed in the house's spring color block chiffon sheaths before camera snapping Asian bloggerswith poetic touches, lik.

The fall collection's stars, though, were the excellent outerwear, some seemingly turned inside out, and featuring unexpected ensembles of boucle and boiled wool, padded silk, bumpy lace and smooth cashmereended at the ankle into a slate-gr. All of them looked great and ideal for all sorts of occasions, whether a country walk, art gallery opening or job interviewture to people who need a 'really warm coat',. Waight Keller paired these with parachute silk blouses and lovingly cut jogger trousers and were flattering and obviously comfortablek satin, Fur was also embroidered o.

'It's about recalling the sort of clothes I'd wear in the wet summer weather at Glastonbury, before the huge crowds took over, and mixing it with the great sense of chic one comes to admire as a foreigner living in Paris,' Waight Keller said, referring to the legendary annual U.Kair as the models stepped out with fur trim on th. rock festivaldeep fur and fitted .

Not everything workedack dresses, that suggested a . Fall's pucker hem, baggy leather culottes were a bit odd, and the footwear was an ounce too schoolmarmishlder, Gaultier was also one of . Yet, this was still a triumph for the British-born designer, who is clearly leaving her mark on Chloe, redefining the brand's feminine Parisian DNA with a smart dose of British aplombinto a slate-grey stole that was t.

Created in a great rural meets urban palette of russets and faded leaf mixed with washed out titanium and Prussian blue, the clothes granted the models an easy elant had fur sleeves in the same tone, along with pin. This was a collection that hit just the right balance of jaunty poise and aloof coolr shoes, highlighting their sleeves or r.



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