Screw the stars – most of them don’t know how to dress, anyway! For all of your wardrobe advice, Fashion Hobo can give you a good dressing-down on what (or what not) to wear. In this post, you will learn how to look good in a Chanel dress. You’d better look good in these, because they aren’t cheap, as well you all know. So. Here is Fashion Hobo’s pick of Chanel Spring/Summer 08 dresses, complete with running commentary.
First down the runway, these leading ladies look great in red, white, and navy concoctions. I don’t think I need to point out the irony of the Stars and Stripes spangled throughout Chanel’s SS08 collection?! What does Lagerfeld think he’s doing? Chanel would not approve (then again, she did have that affair with a German officer in WW2 and then retreated to Switzerland – so one has to wonder, would she even have cared?). I understand that ’summer nights’ is a whimsical enough reason to smatter stars everywhere, but the red-and-white stripes are not subtle. Not at all. Stop trying to make some sort of commercialized political statement, or at least realize that your future markets lie in Russia and China – so if you’re going to go the political route, JUST STICK WITH RED! ok? ok. But I digress. Beautiful draping (this is key to dresses, because aside from patterns and adornment, otherwise they all look the same but for draping), and classic Chanel cuts.
Again, with the starry dresses (which happen to be very cool). I like the dangly necklaces, and the jackets over top. The longer dress reminds me more of Hussein Chalayan (with the outlandish pattern), but the mini-dress is quintessential Chanel. Even though it might be too short to wear in public, this one sure looks great on the runway (or maybe even on the boardwalk at the beach).
Next up, the classics. These dresses emanate class. The subtle colours, traditional-yet-updated cuts and accesorizing, everything hints at Paris of the 20s, 30s and 40s. All of these still manage to look very ‘now’: wear any of these, look well-put-together.
That’s all for now: There are more to follow, but I don’t want to put them all in one enormous blog. Over and out!
-FH.
