(Photo Via: Marie-Joëlle Parent)
Neatly tucked away at Deitch on Wooster St. is “The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld,” a must-see ode to the Parisian label and its famous fashion ambassadors.
At the gallery, portraits of celebrities and fashion icons like SJP and Pharrell Williams are neatly stacked wall to wall, each person classically conveying his/her own interpretation of Chanel’s famous black jacket. When the gallery held its opening party on June 12th, it unsurprisingly attracted a guest list with as much swag as the design itself. Attendees included DJ Leigh Lezark of the NYC-based disc jockey trio The Misshapes, color-coordinated mother-daughter duo Lisa Bonet and Zoe Kravitz, a casual Theophilus London, denim-decked Pharrell Williams, an always simplistically chic and soft-spoken Alexander Wang, and countless others.
(Photo Via: Marie-Joëlle Parent)
(Photo Via: Marie-Joëlle Parent)
“The Chanel jacket is a man’s jacket which has become a typically feminine piece,” Karl Lagerfeld describes in another making-of clip documenting the shooting of the portraits. “It has become the symbol of a certain feminine elegance. Nonchalant and timeless,” he continues, “which means for all time.”
(Photo Via: Marie-Joëlle Parent)
Check out The Little Black Jacket until June 15th at Dietch Projects in NYC, 18 Wooster St.
