Chanel Apartment, No.21Kang Peng Street, has always been a place for fashion release, both then and now. It is also the base camp for spreading Chanel style.
Nearly a century ago, at No.21,Kangpeng Street, Paris, Ms. Chanel had her own ivory tower world. The apartment that never sleeps is upstairs, and there is a studio that she rarely leaves. Her bedroom is in the Ritz-Carlton Suite across the street from Kang Peng. On the beige door, you can still see the word "MademoisellePrivé", which has never faded with time and has a slightly overbearing tone. Although it is not specified, who is this lady and who is the fashion queen who has influenced the fashion world for more than half a century. This line in bold protects the unique and exclusive space of the founder of Chanel Empire. When other fashion brands rise and fall, Chanel's name always appears at the forefront of contemporary fashion.
Chanel's image is reflected in the mixed use of her iconic Chanel letters, double C patterns and black and white gold, as well as the repetitive techniques of creating "PopArt", unique literary attainments, masculine personality and extremely feminine temperament, brown hair, thin bronze appearance, and poetic aphorisms, but never sentimental. From Miss, to Gabrielle, to Coco Coco, and finally to Chanel, she promoted herself to the highest level of fashion. Not only that, she was one of the few people who had a great influence on the history of the 20th century in that era when everything was going to be reshaped.
Golden palace
The golden element runs through Chanel Kang Peng Street apartment. From the beginning of the door, all kinds of gold are like the afterglow of the sunset, blooming layer by layer and infiltrating into every corner of the room. From a pair of Venetian Moorish statues with golden boots around their waist at the entrance, to the complete form of a cluster of golden ears of wheat presented by French wooden gold-plated beige suede armchairs and glass table brackets in the living room, and then to the dining room, glittering scallop trays, golden ashtrays, golden lion sculptures, all kinds of golden hollowed-out carved ornaments or figure frames, as well as dazzling golden flowers, birds, fish and insects, pavilions and landscape figures on lacquer wood screens can be seen everywhere. From bronze, brown, dark gold to bright golden yellow, all kinds of materials and techniques are used, such as casting copper, lacquerware, fabric, gold inlay, gold plating and alloy, just like the spirit of the three goddesses of fate combines the past, present and future. Until one hundred years later, Chanel's apartment still has an unrepeatable image and style.
The golden color belonging to the emperor is the epitome of Chanel's lifelong pursuit. The golden chain on the classic Chanel diamond shoulder bag became one of the symbols of Chanel's comeback in the 1950s. Chanel No.5 perfume created one of the most famous perfume legends in the world. 192 1 year, in a bottle with a small cork, simple shape and serial number, the golden rippling liquid was modulated by a mysterious formula of more than 80 ingredients, emitting an abstract and indescribable fragrance.
Chanel is a master of classicism, but on this basis, she also created an unquestionable fashion taste and became the originator of minimalist style. This profound and awe-inspiring, simple and charming image is exactly what Chanel left for the world, and gold has become the best interpretation of multi-level personality charm. People can read Rousseau, Voltaire and the ancient Roman thinker Saint? Avant-garde female philosophers in SaintAugustin's works, a Jean Worth, Paquin and the great Paul? Strange girl, PaulPoiret is in a prone position, a social butterfly who can invite celebrities such as Dali and Picasso to be guests in Paris, and a social butterfly who can become Greta? Greta gebojian. A top master dressed by a superstar like JeanneMoreau can better represent her classic elegance, lightness and free rhythm than noble, deep and rich gold. In this space, which is not vivid in itself, Ms. Chanel tried her best to decorate it with colorful passions and a large number of splendid and spectacular classical collections, so that the time from Campen Street in Paris could be engraved in this mysterious hall where youth lives forever.
white light
White embellishment has become a blank and minimalist display of Kang Peng Street apartment. White is a symbol of light and hope. "Comfort has a shape and love has a color." Ms. Chanel, a young girl who walked out of a bar in a town where the troops were stationed, was slim, with deep eyes and a fair and delicate face, and gradually became famous by her stage name "Coco Coco". Initially participated in equestrian training and advanced uniform setting, with Bowie? With the appearance of Cowper, Chanel decided to become a milliner designer, which also opened a free design road for her. From boutiques in Deauville, the northern coast of France, to Lucknow, Paris, Chanel has fascinated Paris in just a few years.
White satin easy chairs, dazzling white mirrors and glittering crystal chandeliers can be seen everywhere in every room, tassels carved with diamonds and crystal candlesticks shaped with camellia in the study, dense white curtains in the living room, quiet white lampshades, white tulips in big hands, eight gray-white suede seats in the restaurant in Louis XVI period, and white marble busts and cloaks standing on the fireplace. Cobber's uncle, an English missionary, is the prototype. The magic mirror can not only reflect the brilliance of the middle floor of the room, but also make the space and depth of field of the house unpredictable. A large area of white, complete and simple form, and heavy shapes and materials make Chanel's apartment space full of history simple and bright, full of modernist romantic temperament, and let visitors fully realize that "one world is the end, and another world is the beginning".
Just as Chanel found inspiration from the Egyptian dancers in her paintings, the shepherdess in ancient Greece and the wild children roaming in the countryside, when people smile at this slender and unconventional woman with a sense of superiority, how many people can foresee that her deliberately low-key luxury and her favorite minimalist style will become the most exquisite and influential elitism, and this light will affect the clothes of women all over the world in the next 50 years, even their thoughts and behaviors.
Black shadow
Black, whether it is a straight line or a winding shape, seems to be the rhythm and destiny that Chanel followed all her life. Born in 19, the final work was named 19 perfume. This seemingly perfect fashion queen has a rough life and a rough emotional life. Chanel was born in a city in the Loire Valley, France. Because of his lack of identity documents, his life experience has become an eternal mystery. In the early life of the monastery, under a black robe, she learned to behave appropriately, as simple and rigorous as a nun, but at the same time she also learned to endure a life of silence and loneliness.
"Women consider the colors of all colors. Black is all-encompassing, so is white. Their beauty is impeccable and absolutely harmonious. " It is this fearless attitude towards black that makes Chanel easily master the minimalist and elegant style and is unique in a conservative social atmosphere.
No matter how busy you are, the door of the apartment is always the first step to go home. For example, her early black beaded flat-top hat design and small black-headed flat-bottom two-color shoes after her comeback at the age of 70, the black doorframe of the entrance and the ebony screen nailed to the wall symbolize an alternative deconstruction of classicism and tradition. Chanel has collected as many as 32 pieces in a perfectionist style since she stumbled across an antique screen painted in ebony in China called "Lost Love" in an antique shop in the suburbs. These exotic pictures with a wide range of themes have gathered the essence of Millennium civilization, but they have become the background of a skinny and fashionable woman. She has indeed proved in many ways that her abilities and interests are actually far above these traditions.
In the living room, Dali specially painted a small oil painting of a cluster of wheat ears on a black background, which was almost not as high as a book, while the almost black bronze sculptures of male deer and female deer carved by controversial cubist Lipschitz in the 1920s were placed in front of the fireplace, with black square feet winding and smooth, and a black folding fan full of court meaning and a marble dining table with black lacquer texture on the table. Even the slim and freehand black chandelier, which contains camellia, lucky number "5", brand double "C" logo, "G" representing her real name Gabrielle and "W" representing the Duke of Westminster, exudes mysterious and bold naughty temperament. "I am a liar who tells the truth." Shang? JeanCocteau's contradictory words may be a portrayal of Chanel's fashion skills. She added low-key and simple annotations to luxury and classicism, and also predicted her brilliant and lonely life.
One of the most impressive photos of Chanel is that she is sitting on the steps of the main store in Kangpeng Street, surrounded by her favorite gold wares, crystal products and ebony painted screens. Until the end of her life, her style of gold, white and black is still an element of subversion and an eternal focus.