I continued my recent circuit of cultural pursuits with a visit to Chanel's 'The Little Black Jacket' exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. The gallery itself is a rather pleasant place to while away an hour or two - particularly as it is free! Although considering Mr & Mrs Nigella's combined fortune, the lack of a cover charge seemed only fitting...
I had never visited this site before, but remember the Saatchi's previous incarnation at the old GLC building on London's Southbank. Now situated in a corner of Duke of York Square, its current home is a light-infused and fairly clever architectural amalgam of the old and new. Straight off Sloane Square, it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to envisage the 'Chelsea Set' clientèle, but the braying wasn't too unbearable.
Anna Wintour
Conceived as a celebration of Chanel's classic boucle jacket by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, the exhibition features 113 prints of celebrities (and demi celebrities...) wearing identical tweed boxy numbers in diverse states of disarray and embellishment. I confess some of the (allegedly) famous faces were utterly lost me and the subject matter did start to wear as thin as a Primark pastiche after a while, but the exhibition was handsomely executed overall and I rather liked the irreverent contradiction of simply hanging these prints of 'the gilded & the good' sans frames and with dressmakers pins.
They were rather generously gifting guests a large glossy poster, however unfortunately the choice was limited to home-grown clothes horses Lily Donaldson and Georgia May Jagger...
Might be good for target practice purposes though!
Might be good for target practice purposes though!
Elisa Sednaoui
Kanye West
Carine Roitfeld as Mademoiselle Chanel
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