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Photobook Friday: Chanel’s most extravagant runway sets

Chanel debuted yet another collection at Paris fashion week, and once again stunned with a exciting, unique design set: the rooftops of Paris!

so here’s little history of Chanel’s most ‘go big or go home’ runway show sets over the years

2006: Chanel Couture spring/summer

Karl’s vertical staircase runway

2008: Chanel Couture spring/summer

The giant jacket set ( kinda hard to miss)

2009: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

The Chanel merry-go-round.

2010: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

A barn-inspired showcase, which included Lily Allen performing.

2011: Chanel Couture autumn/winter

The ‘Leo’ show that featured a giant lion – the zodiacs animal front and center.

2011: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

no this isn’t a scene from ice age, its the Chanel show set around the artic, which includes having a massive ice berg slowly falling apart as the decor.

2012: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

The show was set underwater, and even had a someone singing out of a giant clam at one point .

2012: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

Massive crystals, everywhere!

2013: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

The wind farm, which featured massive wind turbines that models walked between.

2013: Chanel Couture spring/summer

The set consisted of creating a fake forrest for the models to walk in.

2013: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

Modelling around the globe… literally.

2013: Chanel Couture autumn/winter

An apocalyptic theatre

2014: Chanel Metiers d’Art

The show happened in Dallas, Texas, and the collection was also inspired by the south west.

2014: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

A stylish supermarket sweep, which had models modelling with trolleys and picking up groceries.

2015: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

the ‘protest in the streets’ set

2015: Chanel couture, autumn/winter

Casino themed show, that had celebrities such as Kristen Stewart and Lily Rose Depp playing blackjack in the middle

2015: Chanel Métiers d’Art

Old Parisian streets theme, with seats set out in front of cafes and shops for the guests of the show so they can take part in the show.

2016: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

Chanel airlines: the chicest of airport lounges.

2016: Chanel Couture spring/summer

A dolls house full of models with paved gardens

2016: Chanel Couture autumn/winter

The show was set in the designing / tailoring studio – which was considered a celebration of the heroes hiding in the shadows of high-fashion.

2017: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

The Chanel Data Centre set, with glass-encased servers that ran code and featured large machines that mimicked a large operating system.

2017: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

The show was turned into a launch pad, which included Elton john’s rocket man playing and the rocket taking off up a few feet of the ground.

2018: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

The set consisted of the huge waterfalls, cliffs and water bank with a bridge.

2018: Chanel Couture spring/summer

The set was a fairy tale garden party with flowers trellises and a fountain centrepiece.

2018: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

The set brought autumn inside, giving us a leaf-strewn runway.

2019: Chanel Cruise

This year, an actual cruise ship was the centre piece of the cruise show.

2019: Chanel ready-to-wear spring/summer

yes, an actual full beach complete with a little patch of sea and sky.

2019: Chanel Couture autumn / winter

A library, complete with books from wall to wall.

2019: Chanel ready-to-wear autumn/winter

and lastly, a winter themed set a Chanel lodge.

disclaimer: I do not own any of the photographs. They all belong to Getty Images and Rex Features.

Jeremy Scott is accused of stealing unknown designer’s work…. again!

A Jeremy Scott Moschino without controversy isn’t really a Jeremy Scott Moschino collection

It’s Milan Fashion week – which means another Controversy surrounding Jeremy Scott‘s newest Moschino collection. After Moschino’s latest showcase, an unknown student designer, Dorothy R.S Williams, took to instagram to accuse Scott of plagiarising her designs from her University’s fashion week show back in June.

The recent fashion graduate shared side by side photos, comparing her collection from June to Scott’s newest collection that just debuted. She describes her heartbreak and disappointment in a lengthy caption; stating that ‘at first she was sceptical, thinking maybe its most a coincidence, but then she realised just how similar the details wear’.

She then goes on to bring up the accused designer’s previous accusations of plagiarism – mentioning the conversely he had at last year’s NYFW – when young London-based designer, Edda Gimnes claimed that Scott had copied her work without her permission – which was only made worse by the fact that about in 2017 she actually met someone from Moschino and showed them her designs, which makes Scott look even guilty of plagiarism.

photo credits: edsgrimmez, Moschino

However, regarding Gimnes’s accusation, Scott quickly responded, and denied he copied Gimnes’s work by sharing a series of different looks from previous Moschino’s collections via his Instagram stories.

He has yet to make to a comment on this recent controversy with Dorothy R.S Williams.

A LITTLE HISTORY OF JEREMY SCOTT’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOMENTS SO FAR

2012: Shackle Snecker

image credits: Jeremy Scott / Adidas

Scott collaborated with Adidas and caused a racial outcry within the media. The Jeremy Scott x adidas collaboration shared their photos of the shoe – a revamped version of the Adidas roundhouse ‘silhouette, with a yellow plastic chain and cuff attachment on the heel, which many people viewed as an allusion to slavery. Due to the huge negative backlash, the collaboration was pulled from release.

2013: Santa Cruz Skateboards Plagiarism

photo credits: Jeremy Scott / Santa Cruz Skateboards

Scott’s fall /winter 2013 collection included cartoon visuals that looked identical to artwork originally designed by artist Jim Phillips for Santa Cruz Skateboards during the ’80s and ’90s – and Scott was blatantly accused of ripping off Phillips’ artwork without permission. The collection sparked a outrage within the skateboard community and the fashion world, and NHS, inc. – the owners of the Californian skate company – threatened legal action against Scott, the designer had no choice but to cease the production and distribution of the plagiarised items.

2013: ”Totem Pole Print” Collection

photo credits: Jeremy Scott / Adidas Originals

The designer again collaborated with Adidas ( Adidas Originals) for his spring/summer 2013 collection. The line featured a series of tracksuits, shoes and dresses donning vibrant, cartoon-like renderings of Pacific Northwest Native American carvings, and was criticized for devaluing the deep-rooted symbology behind the original artwork. People accused him of parroting the Native American community, calling him ignorant and disrespectful. The collaboration was pulled from the American fashion market.

2014: The Mcdonalds collection

photo credits: Moschino

This was Scott’s first collection as creative designer of Moschino, and for his debut runway collection, he decided to draw inspiration for Mcdonalds. However, as a compassion between fast food and fast fashion was being made, and minimum wage workers failed to find the humour in the irony, and accused Scott of mocking the fast food chains employees.

2016: Graffiti plagiarism

image credits: Rex

Moschino’s autumn/winter 2015 collection featured graffiti artwork on its garments – which New York based artist Joseph Tierney, claimed that his artwork was “inexplicably” placed on garments that appeared in Moschino’s collection “without his knowledge or consent”. Tierney further notes that Moschino and Scott even included his “fake signature” on the clothing, confirming that the design was in fact lifted from one his painted murals in New York. Tierney took legal action against Scott and Moschino for copyright infringement over that claims Scott unlawfully used his work on Moschino garments.

2018: ‘iIlegal Aliens’ campaign

image credits: Steven Meisel / Moschino

The designer shared his fall 2018 adverting campaign on instagram – photos included Kaia Gerber and Gigi Hadid with their skin painted blue and red, respectively. The caption with the post? ‘ “The only thing illegal about this alien is how good she looks!” – yeah, people were not happy, accusing the wording to reference “illegal aliens” entering in the U.S. and Scott of bad taste given the political moment and thought the caption was insensitive given the current immigration crisis in America. However, Scott defended his comment with another Instagram caption stating : WHAT IS AN “ALIEN?” THE CONCEPT OF MY AD CAMPAIGN IS TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE US ADMINISTRATION’S HARSH STANCE TOWARDS ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS.’; “I PAINTED THE MODELS IN MY SHOW AND THIS CAMPAIGN AS A WAY TO OPEN A DISCUSSION ON WHAT EXACTLY AN ‘ALIEN’ IS – ARE THEY ORANGE BLUE YELLOW GREEN? DOES THIS MATTER? And ‘ THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, CO WORKERS, RELATIVES AND PEOPLE WE LOVE.”

so yeah, Dorothy R.S William is definitely not the first person to be pretty pissed at Jeremy Scott.

Rihanna has officially killed Victoria Secret (R.I.P)

It’s September – and you guys know what that means – it’s FASHION MONTH BABY!

And so far, there has been one particular show that has kind of stole the show at this year’s New York Fashion Week: Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Show. Because first of all A) it’s Rihanna! and B) we have never quite seen a lingerie show quite Spectacular and creative as her brand’s.

Before the show even happened, there was a lot of buzz surrounding it – because it became the second lingerie show to be filmed and aired for our screens ( on amazon prime video to be exact). The first being the legendary lingerie brand Victoria secret, which in case you didn’t know, will NOT be aired for the first time since the first airing of the show back in 2001 – mainly due to low ratings. Now, in MY opinion, the lack of ratings is due the lack of diversity and creatively the brand has produced over the years. Throughout the noughts, the VSFS was one the most anticipated fashion shows of the year – with original and fun outfit concepts worn by the BEST and fiercest models in the industry – Gisele, Adrima, Candice – like damn, who WOULDN’T kill to be like one of them. But Now, the show’s lacks the same creative and vibrant energy it was known for; filled with a lot of tall, skinny white ‘instagram’ models* who just can’t replicate the same fierceness in their walks and the fun personalities of the OG angels. The brand Aired fashion show gets lower rating every year – because it’s 2019 – the people are bored of looking at skinny, white girls that all look the same wearing now almost repetitive fashion looks on the runway.

The brand has tried to ‘change up’ their usual line up, by adding their first ‘plus size’ model, Barbara Palvin ( Who is definitely NOT ‘plus size’) as well as their first transgender model, Valentina Sampaio – which is awesome of them, but it sucks that they are ONLY doing it to save their dying company. Because quite frankly, the people want representation. We want to be shown that people from all races, gender identities and with all body shapes, can be sexy and confident in lingerie – and oh baby, did Rihanna listen to us!

lya S. Savenok / JP Yim / Anna Webber / Getty Images

The Savage x Fenty fashion show, which was filmed on the 10th September, featured runway models of all shapes, sizes and colours, and genders – including two who are pregnant! the show the likes of ‘supermodels’ like The Hadids and Care Delvingne to transgender actress Laverne Cox. The show without a doubt delivered when it came to diversity – showing that everyone – regardless of their body – can feel comfortable and sexy in lingerie too!

Also, the show’s artistic direction kind of puts Victoria Secret‘s to shame. The stage production alone was felt very fresh. The Creative and scenic designer, Willo Perrson, had created 5 iterations of the set before setting on the simple, yet ambitious runway stage, crating what looked like a concrete village, with a all white huge concrete wall with glassless arch shaped windows to tons of stairs and smaller buildings, with models coming from every direction.

Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images

The all around production of the show felt very new, and exciting. The show was filled with fierce and bold dance numbers throughout ( including a memorable opening number than included RiRi herself, front and centre). The dance numbers, which were choreographed by the talented Parris Goebel, expressed and showcased the energy of what people expect from the brand – fierceness, sexiness and boldness.

Ben Gabbe Getty Images

The presentation of the designs on the models was also exciting to watch, with bold lighting choices to edgy camera movements – it the highlighted that modelling is in fact an art form that often goes unappreciated, as well as how gorgeous the designs look on everyone. The show also included musical performances from the likes of Halsey and Big Sean, with thanks to the the stage design, the artistic lighting and camera movements and the memorising dance numbers ( I don’t think I will get over Normani’s performance for a while ) – it made their performances more engaging and entertaining to watch than on other fashion shows (aka Victoria Secret).

Craig Barritt Getty Images

I don’t think I have quite seen a show as quite as hypnotising in recent years as this show – it was giving us the creative edge that Victoria Secret has been missing since like 2011. Rihanna may be new to the fashion designing world, but all around production of the show and the diversity within the models, already makes people feel way more empowered and sexy than wearing Victoria Secret.

Getty Images for Savage X Fenty Show Presented by Amazon Prime Video

And i’m sorry to say, but after that Rihanna’s show giving the people want they want, it looks like Victoria secret may be completely finished…… #sorrynotsorry

she was so young 😦

disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the photographs featured in this post and do NOT take any credit of them and have given credit to the actual owners and photographers of the photos.