It stars Geraldine Chaplin - brilliant, as the aging, uncharacteristically insecure Chanel - and Amanda Harlech, who offers a mean American accent as Bettina Ballard, the supportive editor of American Vogue. The drive-in motif accommodated the premiere of “The Return,” the short film Lagerfeld directed about Chanel’s return to business. The main event was held at Dallas’ vast Fair Park, a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture that offers the kind of endless horizontal space Lagerfeld loves. took no time in taking over much of the Rosewood Mansion Hotel, where he conducted his fittings amidst the calm chaos that swirls around every one of his Chanel shows. Her name : Choupette Lagerfeld.” (How much more Texas can you get?) Once in Dallas, Lagerfeld & Co. “I had my books.” He also had Choupette in tow, another frequent flyer, who whiled the ground-delay hours in her Louis Vuitton kitty carrier made, Lagerfeld said, “especially for her by Mr. “I stayed on the plane,” he delivered in his bullet-rapid delivery. Dallas got blasted by the storm, which caused the diversion of Lagerfeld’s flight to Kansas City for three hours. Alas, as big, powerful and confident as Lagerfeld and Dallas are, neither is immune to the elements. “In the last year, people were going overboard with the East, China, and so I thought of an homage to America,” he said during a Monday afternoon preview. To that end, Lagerfeld thought it high time to give a shout-out to an old business buddy. And oh, yes, a lineup of fabulous clothes which, for all of their cowboy-Indian-and-rancher references, were for the most part consummately wearable, at least for those in the rarefied Métiers d’Art demographic, as many Dallas ladies are. (He may read voraciously, but fact-checking research for a fashion show? Come on.) He worked the Paris-Dallas connection with French versions of American pop standards (“Son of a Preacher Man,” “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’”) and an old-fashioned drive-in and a saloon soiree, while invoking Wild West archetypes (or stereotypes, depending upon one’s point of view) and a soupcon of political incorrectness (Lagerfeld’s godson, the tot Hudson Kroenig, made a runway stroll carrying a tiny jeweled pistol). The festivities played on the style and history of Texas, or Lagerfeld’s perception of them. ![]() “It’s going to make a fortune for Chanel because there are so many people who have ranches and country homes,” she said. Meanwhile, proud consumer Becca Cason Thrash focused on more concrete matters. ![]() You could almost feel the spirituality in the clothing,” said Jessica Nowitzki. “It was eclectic, fun and very cowboy chic. At least one guest felt an aura not typically associated with Lagerfeld’s approach to fashion. The Texans concurred, with such assertions as “he really nailed Texas” (Lucy Reeves Wrubel) “the collection was playful and happy and a beautiful event” (Simona Beal), and, “this is unlike anything this town has ever seen” (Stephen Summers, co-owner of Highland Park Village shopping center). “It’s almost like going to the theater, because Karl puts so much thought and time into every detail,” Fanning observed. Lagerfeld chose Dallas for this year’s staging of Chanel’s annual Métiers d’Art show in homage to the city that welcomed Mademoiselle Coco Chanel in her postwar return to fashion when Paris shunned her. ![]() Both see it as essential to the human condition as the occasional blue-sky respite at the ranch. Like Lagerfeld, Dallas, the jeweled crown of Texas - where two days after the big snowfall, sidewalks looked pristine and remaining snow banks irritatingly free of New York-like soot - is obsessed with style. ![]() This assumes a baseline of monster talent, and why not? Given their abundant natural gifts, neither Lagerfeld nor Texas bothers with the silliness of false modesty. They believe in the power of aspiration and that, with drive, diligence and nonstop hard work, no goal is beyond them. Because Karl Lagerfeld would have made one heck of a Texan. But maybe that was all one big, cosmic mistake. He’s a German-born, Paris-cultivated citizen of the world.
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