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\n\tChemena Kamali gets a kick out of how the kids in the Chlo\u00e9 studio dress, which emboldened her to take a spontaneous, freewheeling approach to the pre-fall collection \u2014 while also reasserting the brand\u2019s longstanding reputation for cool, great-fitting pants.<\/p>\n
\n\tPerhaps it\u2019s not so logical to crop a robust, rib-knit Donegal sweater at the ribcage and band it with Guipure lace; to wear socks with wood, suede and transparent polyurethane platform clogs, or to layer up ruched peplums, one on the bottom of your lace camisole top \u2014 the other attached to a leather belt worn over your ballooning pants.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut the end result charmed, rooted in Chlo\u00e9\u2019s graceful femininity and Kamali\u2019s obsession with the \u201970s and \u201980s, her mood board plastered with celebrity portraits by Francesco Scavullo, Bettina Rheims photos from her 1989 book \u201cFemale Trouble,\u201d and Paloma Picasso at her 1978 wedding wearing a frothy yet strong-shouldered Karl Lagerfeld-designed Chlo\u00e9 gown at the after party.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI was thinking a lot about not wanting to formulate things,\u201d Kamali said, citing a will to create clothes that \u201cfeel familiar, but where there\u2019s newness, inventiveness and surprise.\u2026It really inspired me to see how the new generation takes dressing as an extension of their own individuality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe designer maintained links to past collections and Chlo\u00e9 staples, riffing on leather bomber jackets with the allure of blouses, and blouses, too; vaguely Victorian jackets with an heirloom quality; delicate lingerie tops and dresses, and floaty chiffon dresses.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was plenty of newness in pants, spanning from velvet stirrup styles and snug suede leggings to garment-dyed workwear pants cut straight like the ones sailors wear. For a stronger fashion statement, high-waisted jeans exploded into giant pant-legs that gave the impression of a broomstick skirt.<\/p>\n
\n\tKamali described \u201cpieces that you instinctively and naturally reach for\u201d that are relatable, and \u201canchored in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBut there was no shortage of fun, impulse items, like a pendant modeled after an apple core, a clam-shaped ring with a mirror inside, and a mini version of the Marcie bag, because why not?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chemena Kamali gets a kick out of how the kids in the Chlo\u00e9 studio dress, which emboldened her to take a spontaneous, freewheeling approach to the pre-fall collection \u2014 while also reasserting the brand\u2019s longstanding reputation for cool, great-fitting pants. Perhaps it\u2019s not so logical to crop a robust, rib-knit Donegal sweater at the ribcage and band it with Guipure lace; to wear socks with wood, suede and transparent polyurethane platform clogs, or to layer up ruched peplums, one on the bottom of your lace camisole top \u2014 the other attached to a leather belt worn over your ballooning pants. But the end result charmed, rooted in Chlo\u00e9\u2019s graceful femininity and Kamali\u2019s obsession with the \u201970s and \u201980s, her mood board plastered with celebrity portraits by Francesco Scavullo, Bettina Rheims photos from her 1989 book \u201cFemale Trouble,\u201d and Paloma Picasso at her 1978 wedding wearing a frothy yet strong-shouldered Karl Lagerfeld-designed Chlo\u00e9 gown at the after party. \u201cI was thinking a lot about not wanting to formulate things,\u201d Kamali said, citing a will to create clothes that \u201cfeel familiar, but where there\u2019s newness, inventiveness and surprise.\u2026It really inspired me to see how the new generation takes dressing as an extension of their own individuality.\u201d The designer maintained links to past collections and Chlo\u00e9 staples, riffing on leather bomber jackets with the allure of blouses, and blouses, too; vaguely Victorian jackets with an heirloom quality; delicate lingerie tops and dresses, and floaty chiffon dresses. There was plenty of newness in pants, spanning from velvet stirrup styles and snug suede leggings to garment-dyed workwear pants cut straight like the ones sailors wear. For a stronger fashion statement, high-waisted jeans exploded into giant pant-legs that gave the impression of a broomstick skirt. Kamali described \u201cpieces that you instinctively and naturally reach for\u201d that are relatable, and \u201canchored in reality.\u201d But there was no shortage of fun, impulse …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}