{"id":178,"date":"2017-03-28T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:31:35","slug":"karl-lagerfeld-for-chloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/karl-lagerfeld-for-chloe\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Lagerfeld for Chlo\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"Chlo\u00e9Gaby Aghion founded the label Chlo\u00e9 shortly after she arrived in Paris in 1952. Aghion\u2019s goal was to provide women with clothing that was easily accessible and modern, yet of a much higher quality than typical French ready-to-wear fashion. Aghion\u2019s designs were sold off-the-rack at several boutiques that she herself frequented, but a seamstress trained in haute couture techniques had made them, ensuring that the garments were high quality.<\/p>\n

At the encouragement of Ma\u00efme Arodin, editor of the influential fashion magazine Jardin des modes, Aghion relinquished her role as the label\u2019s sole designer and began to recruit a number of new talents to carry Chlo\u00e9 forward. These designers included Christiane Bailly, Maxime de la Falaise, Graziella Fontana, Tan Giudicelli, G\u00e9rard Pipart, and Mich\u00e8le Rosier. Of Aghion\u2019s many successful hires, none gained more recognition than Karl Lagerfeld, who began working for the label in 1964. His sense of fantasy and exuberance, as well as his creative reinterpretations of historic styles, soon came to characterize the Chlo\u00e9 brand. His impact was such that he was frequently distinguished as the creator of a certain garment in a way that the other Chlo\u00e9 designers were not (the credit line \u201cKarl Lagerfeld for Chlo\u00e9\u201d appeared in Vogue<\/em> Paris as early as 1965).<\/p>\n

\n
Chlo\u00e9 by Karl Lagerfeld, \u201cAstoria\u201d dress<\/strong>
\n1967
\nGift of Melanie Miller
\n88.84.1<\/div>\n<\/div>\n



\nThis is Lagerfeld\u2019s 1967 \u201cAstoria\u201d dress, which took inspiration from Thomas Malory\u2019s book Le Morte d\u2019Arthur<\/em>, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in 1893. The full-length, high-necked, and long-sleeved design stood out in a period of micro-mini, body-revealing styles, but Lagerfeld\u2019s unique design sensibility is even more evident in the floral motifs hand-painted by Nicole Lefort. The expanse of ivory silk crepe used to make the dress acted as a canvas for an array of colorful, stylized flowers that swirl around the entire garment \u2013 so precisely rendered that they look screen-printed, rather than hand-painted. Chlo\u00e9\u2019s ready-to-wear revolution had truly come into its own. <\/p>\n

Paris Refashioned, 1957-1968<\/em> runs through April 15, 2017 at The Museum at FIT<\/a> in NYC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaby Aghion founded the label Chlo\u00e9 shortly after she arrived in Paris in 1952. Aghion\u2019s goal was to provide women with clothing that was easily accessible and modern, yet of a much higher quality than typical French ready-to-wear fashion. Aghion\u2019s designs were sold off-the-rack at several boutiques that she herself frequented, but a seamstress trained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[31,33,32,37,35,30,34,38,36,39],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion-designers","category-objects","tag-chloe","tag-christiane-bailly","tag-gaby-aghion","tag-gerard-pipart","tag-graziella-fontana","tag-karl-lagerfield","tag-maxime-de-la-falaise","tag-michele-rosier","tag-tan-giudicelli","tag-thomas-malory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/paris-refashioned\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}