Among the soft suiting and LBDs, one of which the designer dubbed “Version 2000,” were unexpected surprises, including snowflake-like pom-poms that decorated the neck of a powder-pink suit and were strung into a fantastical shawl.
Karl Lagerfeld created some top-down frisson with his models, who wore multicolored fauxhawks and ankle-strap stilettos with their ladylike ensembles. Unexpected mash-ups weren’t limited to seating charts that season at Chanel. There’s also a case of platinum and diamonds, 45 pairs of shoes, 26 hats, two assistants, four body guards, two publicists, record managers, road managers.” Though his presence electrified the scene, Diddy’s approach to the good life-“I don’t count carats and I don’t look at price tags anymore,” he told the magazine-mirrored that of some of the front row clientele. “But then he’s shipped 18 trunks of clothes, along with two stylists, a hair person, a makeup person. “He’s booked a entire room in his hotel just as his closet,” noted Vogue’s Plum Sykes, who was on hand to record the event. In July 1999 Diddy (then known as Puff Daddy) “stormed” Paris to promote his Forever album and and take in the Fall 1999 couture collections with Annie Leibovitz and Kate Moss in tow. Chanel’s Fall 1999 Couture collection was presented on Jin Paris.
We’re counting down to the Spring 2019 Couture season with a look back at five very haute archival shows.
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