The really big names were in the conversation – and each of you, in all the years joined nights, were, of course, to have it from a safe source know: Phoebe Philo, so it was called, to 2018, the celebrated designer at Céline, is the designated successor. Or Alber Elbaz has made Lanvin large and longer without a Job. Or Hedi Slimane, who invented at Dior Homme, the super-slim jacket, Lagerfeld then legendary way into starved.
At the end of all knew nothing. A few hours after the Tuesday of the death of Karl Lagerfeld reported had been announced that Chanel’s CEO, Alain Wertheimer, that his closest assistant will be responsible for in the future, the collections – “the heritage of Gabrielle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld can continue to live”. Since then, only the outside, not puzzles standing: Who Virginie Viard?
in Retrospect, Lagerfeld has pushed you already gently into the spotlight. In October in Paris, as well as the Métiers d’art Show in December in New York, she took to his side, the ovation; in January at the Haute Couture, as the Designer was already seriously ill, she entered then alone, in front of the audience. For 30 years, Viard was “the right and the left Hand”, Karl Lagerfeld’s, as said, you interpreted his sketches, supervised the workshops, helped in the fitting rooms and at the Casting – and yet you knew almost nothing about them. That was quite intentional. There can only be one sun in the Chanel of the Firmament, and that was since 1983, the great Karl. Now it is your turn.
you don’t like high heels
Virginie Viard was born as the daughter of a surgeon in Lyon, not even her exact age is known, it is likely to be mid-fifties. In Lyon she went to fashion school and worked as a costume designer the costumes in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three colors: Blue” from her. You came in 1987 to Chanel and began working there as an Intern in the Haute Couture. In the Studio she was soon considered to be the “secret weapon” and closest friend of Karl Lagerfeld. They were in constant exchange and phone daily. Viard lives with her Partner, a music producer and the son ran four years ago on the Chanel catwalk.
It is not a glamorous person, and very wisely chosen – not only because the house is headed since the death of Coco Chanel for the first time by a woman. Viard knows the Chanel gear, with its thousands of interlocking cogs by heart, she has internalized the Coco-picture language and will guide you presumed more – with a few modernizations here and there. A completely new Look would be counterproductive, the group has implemented in 2017, a whopping 9.6 billion dollars, and the global demand for Tweed Jackets with gefranstem hem and the famous double-C seems to be unbroken.
Viards own style is not, incidentally, share a mix of Chanel with a lot of Denim, and more rocking, leather and high heels you like. “I’m already tall and don’t like it when you look at me.” This is likely to be difficult: If on 5. March will be presented at the Grand Palais, the next Chanel collection, all eyes will be focused this time only on you.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 20.02.2019, 21:34 PM
