Monday, December 10, 2012

Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art 2012/13 Show

One fashion house I really adore is Chanel. I can easily spend a lot of time flicking through images of models strutting in Mr Largerfeld's latest creations. I'm a huge fan of lace, structured pieces, collars, white shirts, wintery skirts and stockings. All of these things appeared on the square-shaped, open aired runway at last week's Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art 2012/13 show at Edinburgh's Linlithgow Palace.

I love the look of the collection, it's so inherently Scottish!

Fashion Writer Christina Lindsey-Miller who I met on social media (no really, I did!), is a Scotland-based freelancer for publications like Grazia Daily and British Vogue. She told me that it was "wonderful that Chanel supports textiles industry in Scotland".

Tim Blanks from style.com says that Chanel's Scottish aesthetic was influenced by Coco's time living in Scotland with her lover, the Duke of Westminster.

With tartan and tweed steeling the show, Largerfeld told Blanks the collection was 'dressed to kilt'. Hilarious.

Linlithgow Palace is the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Have a peep at some of my favourite looks below. Oh-so-Chanel. Amazing.



*Images are from the Chanel iPhone application