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Chanel's Fitting Room Follies... Gold Leaf... Literature Lauren...

Chanel's Fitting Room Follies... Gold Leaf... Literature Lauren...

by WWD Staff

Posted Tuesday May 12, 2009

From WWD Issue 05/12/2009

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A still from Karl Lagerfeld’s mini movie for Chanel.

Photo By Karl Lagerfeld

IF THE SHOE FITS: “Turn to me and laugh,” Karl Lagerfeld can be heard saying as his camera records model Lara Stone trying on clothes in a five-minute movie that just went live on chanel.com. In “Fitting Room Follies,” also featuring model Baptiste Giacobini, Lagerfeld employs a freewheeling filmmaking style common in French cinema in the Fifties: with abrupt cuts, continuous takes and the director’s presence felt throughout — verbal instructions included. “You can move, you can do whatever you like,” the designer calls out to Stone in his rapid-fire parlance, as she tries on tweed suits, two-tone shoes and costume jewelry from Chanel’s pre-fall collection. After fiddling with a pearl necklace, jazz humming in the background, Lagerfeld intones: “And now you remove it, and let it fall to the floor.”

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