HAND - IN - HAND...

On last Tuesday 22 January 2013, Karl Lagerfeld presented Chanel's Spring/Summer 2013, Haute Couture Collection. As usual the event was quite the spectacle and the looks were presented in a romantic forest backdrop inside of the Grand Palais.

Like the set, Lagerfeld showed us a very romantic and feminine collection, bringing the  ‘new gothic beauty' looks to Chanel's couture show in the Paris Fashion week (PFW) where the outfits that include both, tailored and more billowing silhouettes, jackets and dresses with focus squarely on shoulders with a special panels that looked like armor. The outfits were complemented with a dramatic styling where the dark 'smoky eyes' were the protagonist.

It was all glamour at the Grand Palais, but... the 'Gothic Beauty' Collection took a bigger 'Spin' when at the ending of the show, the German designer, reinventing the traditional bridal finale by ending the show, brought to the stage not one, but two brides, dressed in identical wedding gowns, 'hand-in-hand', and the controversy started...

The two brides in the catwalk.  Lagerfeld can be seen in the background.

The president Barack Obama is not the only prominent figure to advance the gay rights now, also his homolog, the current president of France, François Hollande has plans too, to legalize gay marriage and thus allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children. But not everyone in France agrees that's the way to go. On Jan. 13, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Paris to oppose such a law.

Asked if his use of lesbian couture at his show was designed to support gay marriage in France, Lagerfeld replied: "Of course it was."

"I don't even understand the debate. Since 1904 (in France) the church and state have been separate," the German-born designer told The Associated Press. 

The truth is that Lagerfeld created a proposal according to the problems that many countries currently have about gay marriage, consciously or not, I think he did great controversial and this sets tongues talking good or bad, but what I am pretty sure is that, if your intention was to put into the arena the Chanel's name, really made it.  Applause for Karl, because the controversial sells.

Enjoy this 'Floral Gothic' Collection...