Chanel 2010 Resort Collection

Miss Lagerfeld unveiled her resort collection for Chanel, called “Coco on the Lido” in Venice and style.com was there:

“A cruise show on a boardwalk snaking along the Venice Lido with the sun about to set, gentle waves rolling in, and a whisper of a breeze to make sinuous shapes flutter in movement…it couldn’t have been a more poetic or, given the times, more uniquely audacious Chanel moment. “I wanted to reinvent the mystique,” said Karl Lagerfeld, talking about locating the collection in one of Coco Chanel’s favorite summer haunts—she visited Venice for almost ten years beginning in 1919 and met Diaghilev here.”

“In spite of all his extensive erudition on the art, culture, and personalities of the Venetian past, Lagerfeld concluded, “I don’t use it to make costume. I was actually more interested in the café society of the thirties and the life Chanel lived here, which is gone now.”

How flipping fabulous is that? Let’s go to the tape:

Gorgeous. Very Venice and very, very Chanel. We especially love the Chanel sunglasses reimagined as masquerade masks. There’s not one wrong note or weak look in the entire collection. And we love the styling.

[Photos: Getty Images]

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