Angèle appropriates 90s-inspired Chanel looks for her “Nonante-Cinq†tour
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- 22 Apr 2022
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This is the very first time that Chanel has created bespoke stage costumes. And it is for the Belgian singer-songwriter Angèle that the house wanted to do it, on the occasion of her Nonante-Cinq Tour , named after her second album released in December 2021. reference to her year of birth, 1995. But what you may not know is that it is also an echo of the Chanel spring-summer 1995 ready-to-wear collection.
Because if the singer has always had a fondness for Chanel fashion and style, and particularly for her old parades, it is indeed to the French house that she turned to design her touring wardrobe. Hand in hand with Virginie Viard , she has rethought these silhouettes of the past, adapted them to the requirements of the stage, to her vision of contemporary fashion too. All for a most modern show, the result of ever more creative, if not eternal, fashion.
Angèle, musician passionate about fashion
It all starts in March 2020, just a few days before the first confinement. Angèle meets Virginie Viard , the artistic director of Chanel . She then confides in her relationship to clothing, fashion, and what she aspires to wear now as an artist. Very quickly, a connection is created between the two women. “It was a childhood dream that Chanel would dress me for the tour.” says the singer. Ambassador of the house since February 2020, Angèlenever hid from adoring fashion: “I have a real relationship with fashion, creation. When I was a teenager, I designed my outfits and made them myself”. For the record, she bought her first sewing machine at the age of twelve! “I rediscovered here this pleasure that I had put aside to devote myself to music. And it reminded me how much I liked projecting myself into making a garment, into all that that represented”.
Pandemic obliges, his festival tour did not ultimately take place. It will be necessary to wait until 2021 so that she can imagine herself on stage again. But the idea of ​​wearing Chanel remains in the back of her mind, never really disappearing...
While recording her album Nonante-five , Angèle visits the heritage of the house, where all the archives are kept. "It was magical, I rushed to the 1995 collection of course, I was interested in seeing what could have been created when I was born, what was in fashion then, it was obvious." explains the singer about it. “The 1995 collection really inspired me, there was a consistency with my style, my desires around the project, and I started by wearing this collection for the promotion of the album last December”.
While recording her album Nonante-five , Angèle visits the heritage of the house, where all the archives are kept. "It was magical, I rushed to the 1995 collection of course, I was interested in seeing what could have been created when I was born, what was in fashion then, it was obvious." explains the singer about it. “The 1995 collection really inspired me, there was a consistency with my style, my desires around the project, and I started by wearing this collection for the promotion of the album last December”.
Fashion capable of liberating the female body
Among this unique wardrobe, there are a dozen looks. The emblematic tweed, of course, but not only. Sequins also have their place on stage, reflecting the light and contributing to the creation of a real performative spectacle for the audience watching. We thus find a short jumpsuit with sequins dating from 1991, the perfect party outfit. Read More...
