CHANEL FASHION SHOW IN SCOTLAND.
A Fashion Show In Scotland? Scotland, you say !
Scotland, as in Whisky, Haggis, Tartan Kilts, Hairy Bearded Men and Edinburgh Castle.
AYE , Och aye ! Scotland.
YES , Oh yes ! Scotland.
It's not just any old Scottish fashion show , no , it's CHANEL.
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You read correctly, this year, this time, Chanel are having their new, newest fashion show in Scotland.
Fashion House Chanel has revealed the location where it's secret fashion show will be held.
Linlithgow Palace and its neighbouring park and loch are normally a place where families enjoy a quiet day out. A wonderfully beautiful peaceful tranquil serene mystical setting.
Pictures below are of Linlithgow Palace, the photograph's show the contrast in Summer and Winter.
Linlithgow Palace in Central Scotland has been chosen by French fashion house Chanel for its annual Métier d'Arts show in December 2012.
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Luxury Paris fashion brand Chanel has confirmed the ruined castle or palace in Linlithgow will be the backdrop to its 2012 annual Metiers d'Art fashion show, which celebrates the best of artisan craftsmanship.
The castle, or Palace as it is known locally is situated in Linlithgow, in West Lothian, which is near Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city.
Pictured below left is the inside structure courtyard area of Linlithgow Palace, and below right is the centre piece of the courtyard area The Fountain.
Linlithgow Palace does not have a roof and so guests will be protected from the elements by a huge glass cube, according to a source. Its majestic roofless structure overlooks a beautiful park and loch, and would truly be a magnificent setting for Chanel’s show. Reports say construction teams will move into the West Lothian Palace to set it up for the show.
Previously held in Paris, Tokyo, London, New York, Moscow and Shanghai, the catwalk event will showcase the luxury house's pre-fall 2013 collection, and the work of the artisan manufacturers housed under its Paraffection umbrella, including glove maker Causse, feather house Lemarié and hat maker Maison Michel.
The fashion clothing bash showcases the work of 10 manufacturers working under Chanel’s Paraffection umbrella.
Chanel’s Paraffection brand translates as ‘for the love of’.
Each year Chanel present a ready-to-wear collection which showcases a specialist craft – called The Métiers d'Art collection. It is a showcase for the works of ateliers such as the costume jeweller Desrues, the feather dresser Lemarié, the embroiderer Maison Lesage, the shoemaker Massaro, the milliner Michel, the goldsmith Goossens.
Chanel confirmed that creative director Karl Lagerfeld, picture below wearing a type of tartan kilt, "has chosen Edinburgh as the location for the collection, inspired by the rich heritage of Chanel in Scotland, and the craftsmanship of Scottish tweed and cashmere, that are an integral and iconic part of Chanel's collections". It seems fitting that the stunning Linlithgow palace would be the venue. Karl Lagerfeld roks.
Chanel also said that Linlithgow Palace in Scotland will provide a spectacular backdrop for the collection.
Many are confident that this year’s show will be Chanel’s most impressive and spectacular to date, and the setting certainly seems like it will live up to that. In typical fashion however, the fashion house is being tight lipped about specific details. My lips are sealed.
The luxury house, Chanel, which is helmed by German designer Karl Lagerfeld, also recently saved 176 jobs in Scotland by purchasing cashmere business Barrie Knitwear. Based in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders. Barrie was formerly part of a once-mighty, 140 year old textiles conglomerate named Dawson's that went into administration earlier this year before Chanel stepped in to secure its future. The Barrie Knitwear factory is pictured below.
The company said: "Barrie Knitwear has worked with Chanel for more than 25 years producing cashmere knitwear, including Chanel's iconic two-tone cardigans. This acquisition safeguards the future of their business."
So, with the Scottish Border town of Hawick seeing a helping hand from a God of Fashion it is now time for another one of Scotland's lesser known Town's to steal some limelight, and this time it is another biggie. Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel have decided that Linlithgow is the place to hold The Metiers D'Arts Show for 2012. More specific than Linlithgow, Linlithgow Palace, a divine setting for such a prestigious event as the Metier D'Art Fashion Show.
Linlithgow Palace in the photograph below is where the 2012 Chanel Metiers D'Arts Show Collection will be revealed to the waiting dedicated followers of Fashion, Fashion Editor's, Journalist's, Designer's, Model's, Celebrities, Papparazzi, in fact it is sure to be one of the biggest fashion events ever to of been held in Scotland.
I have included a brief history of what is known today as Linlithgow Palace.
Historically a royal manor existed on the site in the 12th century. This was replaced by a fortification known as 'the Peel', built in the 14th century by English forces under Edward I. The site of the manor made it an ideal military base for securing the supply routes between Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.
In 1424, the town of Linlithgow was partially destroyed in a great fire. King James I started the rebuilding of the Palace as a grand residence for Scottish royalty. Over the following century the palace developed into a formal courtyard structure, with significant additions by James III and James IV.
James V, who was born in the palace in April 1512, added the outer gateway and the elaborate courtyard fountain. Oh the history.
Pictures below left, is Bonnie Prince Charles or Charlie. Below right is Mary Queen of Scot's.
Linlithgow Palace has had many famous people associate themselves here throughout it's history, among them Bonnie Prince Charlie who was once reputed to have visited. Others who have a historical association with Linlithgow Palace are, King Charles I who it is said stayed a night but not for a Chanel Show, or so i am reliably informed.
Born in Linlithgow Palace in Scotland was James VI daughter Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Linlithgow Palace was also the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots and King James V.
The palace is rumored to be haunted by Mary of Guise, mother to Mary Queen of Scots.
The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Although maintained after Scotland's monarchs left for England in 1603, the palace was little used, and the buildings were later burnt down in January 1746, leaving them in their current state.
It is now a visitor attraction in the care of Historic Scotland.
Scotland will play host to fashion's finest next month as fashion editors, buyers and muses roll into Linlithgow Palace for Chanel's annual Métiers d'Arts show on December 4th 2012.
The Chanel Catwalk show will be attended and watched by many special guests and celebrities. With previous Chanel catwalk, runway presentation show's having celebrity people like French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, and television presenter Alexa Chung and German actress Diane Kruger as front row regulars at Chanel Fashion Shows in the past, they and the likes of Carine Roitfeld and US Vogue editor Anna Wintour had better brush off their walking boots and prepare to wrap up warm.
Insiders say Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Keira Knightley are among the stars on the guest list for creative director Karl Lagerfeld’s glitzy Chanel bash. Brad Pitt recently done an ad advert campaign for Chanel No. 5 perfume, Brad Pitt's advert was the talk after the actor appears disheveled in the tv television commercial for the Chanel No. 5 perfume, but Chanel has news for us.
The iconic Marilyn Monroe is to be the new face of the iconic Chanel No.5, so fitting for the legendary fragrance which was the first perfume launched by Parisian Couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. The original official launch place and date of Chanel No. 5 was in her rue Cambon boutique in the fifth month of the year, on the fifth day of the month: May 5, 1921. Since that time Chanel No.5 has received it's share of publicity, it is said that in 1952 a reporter asked Marilyn Monroe what she wore in bed, Marilyn Monroe replied famously that she wore No.5 and nothing else."Madness is Genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring" - Marilyn Monroe.
Previous spokeswomen for the fragrance include Audrey Tautou, Nicole Kidman and Catherine Deneuve, while Keira Knightley fronts Chanel's Mademoiselle campaigns.
As for Marilyn Monroe well this isn't the first time a design house has looked for inspiration beyond the grave, as rival label Dior featured Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, and Monroe via CGI in a J'Adore perfume commercial co-starring Charlize Theron. Marilyn Monroe is one of the greatest sexy silver screen godess siren beauties, who is especially popular and fashionable in pop culture. Marilyn Monroe will surely give the Chanel No.5 brand a much needed sense of girlish glamour. Love.
Coco Chanel it is believed was inspired to create some of Chanel's famous designs by her Scottish connections, CHANEL'S tweed jackets, padded leather handbags and two-tone shoes are among many of the classic designs believed to have been inspired by her love for Scotland.
Coco Chanel dressed in a Fair Isle jumper, a very becoming tweed hat and with her trousers tucked inside her woolen oversized socks, very few people would recognise the woman pictured smiling alongside a friend and a couple of dogs on a Highland estate in Scotland.
But this is French fashion icon Coco Chanel, one of the world’s most famous glamorous women, as you have never seen her before.
Scotland was a big influence on some of her most famous designs.
Lisa Chaney, author of the book Chanel: An Intimate Life, said: “From her very earliest days as a designer, Coco Chanel was working with Scottish wools and with Scottish tweed.
Material and fabric were sourced for her by one of the great loves of her life, Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel, when he helped set her up in business before the start of World War I.
Many years later, she spent a lot of time with another lover, it began in 1924 when the house's eponymous founder Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel embarked upon a relationship with the then Duke of Westminster, enjoying the country pursuits on the Reay Estate in the Highlands in Sutherland region of the Scottish Highlands on both the Duke's 123,000-acre estate, Reay Forest, and those of neighbouring lairds. They would fish, hunt and play cards.
She took his clothes – the tweeds and knitwear – and reinterpreted them.
Chanel's iconic tweed, or bouclé as it is better known, was a result of Coco's experimentation with the traditional woollen cloth handwoven by the inhabitants of the Highlands. After seeing it on the Duke, Coco began using it for sporting outfits, suits and coats. Her French weavers bemoaned its poor quality and tendency to fault and 'buckle', but Coco loved its irregularity and so her signature tweed was born.
She famously said that everything she made, she made for herself and that couldn’t be more true than when it comes to the tweed clothing she made for women.
She designed country clothes that were comfortable to wear and would keep you warm and dry but they still had her amazing sense of laid-back elegance.
“I think the fashion legacy she left might have been very different if it hadn’t been for the British men she loved and the Scottish connections they brought to her life.”
The photograph above pictures LochMore Lodge Reay Forest in Sutherland, Scotland.
Staff at the Reay Forest Estate in Sutherland, Scotland say Coco Chanel was a regular companion of the second duke Hugh Grosvenor– known as Bendor or Bennie– who was reputed to be the richest man in not only Scotland but Europe.
She spent three consecutive summers at the Highland sanctuary, staying with the duke at Lochmore, a turreted granite mansion, for up to four months at a time.
At the time, the duke had recently separated from his second wife, Violet Nelson.
The photographs above are of Rosehall Lodge, Sutherland, Scotland.
And when Bennie bought a second Scots 20 room Georgian mansion – Rosehall Lodge, near Lairg, in Sutherland, Scotland – in 1926. In 1926, when the Duke purchased Rosehall, also in Sutherland he turned to Coco to decorate it in her unique style Coco decorated the mansions rooms in her own particular style : wallpaper in different shades of beige and a hand-painted floral motif, a few splashes of green and elegant yet simple fireplaces in every living room.
The photographic pictures above show the area in the Highlands of Scotland known as Sutherland. The photographs are of the Reay Forest Estate and Loch More, the picture on the right shows one of the Scottish mountains, more commonly called a munro, the munro is called Ben Stack. This area of the Scottish Highlands is wonderfully picturesque and beauty and nature abounds.
The Raey estate office in the Highlands of Scotland hold leather bound volumes which prove Coco’s talent for fishing.
They show that on May 27, 1925, she caught a 9lb salmon in a pool of the River Laxford.
Days later, on June 1, she landed a salmon weighing more than 12lb.
Her biggest catch, a 17lb trout, was landed on September 30, 1925.
The following summer she again joined the duke for regular fishing trips.
And in 1927, the couple were joined by one of Bennie’s closest friends, Winston Churchill, for a weekend of fishing at the end of September.
In a letter to his wife Clemmie, Churchill spoke of the fishing trips the three friends shared.
Churchill said: "Coco is here in place of Violet. She fishes from morn till night and in two months has killed 50 salmon".
"She is very agreeable – really a great and strong being fit to rule a man or an Empire".
"Bennie very well and, I think, extremely happy to be mated with an equal – her ability balancing his power".
"We are the only three on the river and have all the plums".
In her book Coco Chanel: The Legend and The Life, Justine Picardie describes how Coco Chanel allowed her days roaming the Scottish countryside to influence her work.
Picardie, now editor of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, said: “She was incorporating something of Scotland into her new designs.
"At Lochmore, she borrowed Bendor’s clothes, making his tweeds her own and wearing them with a panache not usually associated with traditional sporting garb".
"She started sourcing fabrics from a Scottish tweed mill, and turning them into her little jackets and suits". Chanel’s tweed jackets, her padded leather handbags suspended on a gold cable chain and her two-tone shoes are among many classic designs believed to have been directly inspired by her Scottish connections.
Lisa Chaney, who spent four years researching Chanel’s rags-to-riches story, said : "She is best known for
creating the Little Black Dress and her perfumes but a lot of people forget she was one of the first women to make wearing trousers fashionable too".
"She mastered how you could wear men’s clothes but not look like a man".
"She made her tweed outfits look sexy and chic, so they could be worn with panache".
Coco, who died in 1971 aged 87, saw Chanel become one of the world’s most highly sought after fashion brands.
Her designs were favourites of many of the world’s most famous elegant women including Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy.
Karl Lagerfeld joined the company in 1983 and, in his role as head designer and creative director, continues to ensure Chanel’s success in everything from couture dresses to fragrances.
Is it possible that for the Chanel Metiers d'Art collection show, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld dispatches a bevy of possibly tartan-clad beauties tonight, we can be sure it's not just a Highland fling, it's a love letter to the place where Coco Chanel herself fell in love, it isnot just a love affair, in more ways than one.
The Holywood A-listers attending the Chanel Fashion Show will be among 400 stars to sweep into the quiet town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, for Chanel’s Metier d’Arts art and fashion show.
Authorities will shut down part of Linlithgow’s High Street so celebrities can be swept to the stellar fashion event in a cavalcade of limousines.
Several roads will be shut for up to four hours as stars in limousines make their way to Linlithgow Palace, near Edinburgh in Scotland.
Security staff have already been stationed at the main gates and around the grounds of the historic palace. Security will be ultra-tight when the Chanel comes to town.
The high-scale lockdown by the luxury French fashion brand will maintain a veil of secrecy synonymous with events run by Chanel's chief designer Karl Lagerfeld, aged 79 years young. Central to the secrecy is also the preparation of event and as such Chanel is shipping in all of the equipment and staff for the launch themselves rather than employing local contractors, keeping talking about the secret event to a minimum.
Councillors, community leaders and police are being briefed by a senior Chanel agent in the morning on full arrangements for the Metiers d’Art show. Central to those talks is the revelation a parade of limousines carrying up to 400 guests is scheduled to arrive by road from Edinburgh on the night of the show - in what could be a logistical headache for town officials. Extra police are almost certain to be deployed, with the Linlithgow town’s Kirkgate and Cross area possible to be closed between 3pm and 7pm.
Linlithgow is situated between Edinburgh and Falkirk / Stirling. I have included some maps of the Linlithgow area and the surrounding area's. So that you can place exactly where Chanel will be hosting their fashion show and not get lost. Look out for Braveheart's & Freedom.
Designers and fashion journalists are due to arrive in Edinburgh for the fashion show on the 3rd of December 2012 and fly out only two days later on the 5th of December 2012, since the Chanel show is inbetween those dates, so by deduction that date would be the 4th of december 2012. Although i am sure that if some people can take the time in life to enjoy somewhere special, then Scotland certainly is a special place with much to offer apart from the Chanel show, and a deep fried Mars bar which will soon be on the staple diet list of all top super models. Yummy Scrummy.mmm.
During their trip to Scotland they might visit the capital's tourist attractions, including the Castle at Edinburgh and the Royal Yacht Britannia, also in Edinburgh. Some people may even venture to the Highlands or rural Perthshire, but please be careful if you do visit, of the local Haggis as they may be fierce and aggressive at this time of year, or in fact any time of year especially towards strangers.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop commented: "The Metiers d'Art show is legendary in the fashion world and I am delighted that Chanel has chosen the stunning location of Linlithgow Palace for this year's event.
"Chanel bringing the show to Scotland is hugely exciting for Linlithgow and the people of Scotland, and it will provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase Scotland's culture and heritage to a global audience in the Year of Creative Scotland."
Historic Scotland, the palace's owners, announced the palace closure online, telling visitors: "due to a corporate event, Linlithgow Palace will be closed from 19th November 2012 until 10th December 2012 inclusive. Linlithgow Peel will also be closed to the public on the 4th December 2012."
At Linlithgow Palace there are stringent security and safety checks so as to ensure that no haggis are present while the Chanel Metiers d'Art Show Collection is taking place.
The French fashion house is known for its dramatic catwalk shows, but have never had a live Haggis enter onto the runway or catwalk of any show. Imagine.
Chanel have presented shows which have included underwater and intergalactic themes, so an open-air sartorial spectacle is guaranteed as the luxury pre-fall 2013 collection will be shown after nightfall.
The Karl Lagerfeld Chanel Metiers D'Art Show Collection honors artists such as costume jeweler Desrues, feather dresser Lemarié, embroiderer Maison Lesage, shoemaker Massaro, hatmaker Auguste Michel, goldsmith Goossens, floral finery maker Guillet, embroiderer Atelier Montex and glovemaker Causse.
This year’s show will be held at 6pm on the 4th December 2012, so invitees, Alexa, Poppy, Caroline etc will need to pack their thermals and warmest mufflers, what am i saying, it's Scotland , so just bring your shorts & light t-shirt or top, short dresses etc, waterproof of course, there are reasons Scot's drink Whisky, it warms the cockles.
NEWS UPDATE : CHANEL METIERS D'ART SHOW.
Tickets / Invitation's for the 2012 Metiers d'Art collection show have been hand drawn or sketched by who maybe Karl Lagerfeld himself as when he was a youngster his ambition was to be an sketcher, artist or character caricature painter, so this invite may well be a sketch by Karl Lagerfeld. So now you know what the invitation to the Chanel show in Scotland looks like, do you remember throwing it in the bin thinking it was just another piece of junk mail, well hay ho! Probably not, eh, as this invite which is the ticket to thee fashion show in Scotland is a well sought after piece of art itself. The invitation is a bright watercolour portrayal of the prestigious Linlithgow Palace, not far from Edinburgh.
The construction of the arena and area around Linlithgow Palace for Chanel Metiers d'Art 2012 exhibition is well under way, with construction taking place to host the prestigeous event. As you can see from the photograph below, marquee have been built on the Peel next to Linlithgow Palace, there are 12 marquee tents which have been erected and these tents are internally linked to each other. The actual purpose for the marquees are yet to be confirmed although it might be an access entry / exit point for the main Linlithgow Palace area, as stairs have also been built into the Linlithgow Palace. It has been predicted that a large clear cube would be covering guests from the weather elements, but this rumour is now being dispelled and warmth seems to be from underfloor heating, and the gazebos that are appearing may be for a dinner later in the evening for the guests to attend, or the gazebos maybe the area where models make themselves, with the assistance of hairstylists and make-up artists, presentable for the actual Metiers d'Art. Until the actual show, we will then know for sure what is actually install for all at the Chanel Metiers d'Art.
The Metiers d’Art event is held in a different country each year. It highlights the work of Chanel’s specialist manufacturers around the world, who include Hawick cashmere makers Barrie Knitwear.
Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld is rumoured to have spent more than £2million on the show. Two hundred Chanel staff have been hard at work at the Linlithgow palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots.
The event is a massive boost for the fashion industry in Scotland.
Tessa Hartmann, founder of the Scottish Fashion Awards, said: “This is my first Metiers d’Art and I’m beside myself.
“There will be around 40 to 50 supermodels on the runway, showcasing Chanel’s 2013 autumn collection.
“It’s huge for Scotland.”
Last years Metiers d'Art Show is photographed below. The Chanel Metiers d'Art Show was working on the Bombay - Paris Theme and the fashion show had a very worthy backdrop created in the cavernous chamber of the Galerie Courbe in the Grand Palais, Paris. It was a fantastic affair, an extraordinary banquet of lavish decoration and gormet food. Opulence.
In the United Kingom there is a Kingdom of Fife. In Great Britain there is the Great Glen. There are many Great places. Those two examples are actually in Scotland. Scotland is a Great Kindom.
Great Britain can be abbreviated to GB, and United Kingdom abbreviated to UK.
The people who live in this country are collective known as British.
Ireland Irish, Wales Welsh, England English, Scotland Scottish.
There are many great designers of fashion which have and do come from all over these different places in Great Britain or the United Kingdom.
Great Britain GB United Kingdom UK. Is an Island.
England is in the South of the Island.
Wales is to the West of England but is still on the mainland Island.
Ireland is to the West of the Island and is a separate Island opposite both Scotland & England.
Scotland is in the North but still on the mainland Island, above England.
Great Britain, United Kingdom. G.B. U.K.
There are many island's which make up the whole main place of Great Britain, United Kingdom.
One of the most beautiful island places would be Skye. Skye is a separate island in the West of Scotland.
Have i confused you yet ?
Fashion roks.
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I HAVE A NEW CHANEL POST WRITTEN AFTER THE SHOW, IF YOU WISH TO READ ABOUT THE ACTUAL SHOW THEN LOOK AT DECEMBER.
