CHANEL Mademoiselle Privé Exhibition

This past weekend I went to the Chanel exhibition that was held at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.  It was the last weekend for the exhibition so it was quite busy.  I arrived in the early evening, right before dinnertime, I thought this would be a good time because I figured people would be getting ready for dinner or getting ready for their Halloween festivities, but clearly I wasn't the only one who thought this would be a good time.  I waited in line for about an hour, the weather was good, so it was fine.  The Saatchi Gallery is one of my favourite places for art in London, they always have great modern art exhibition.  The Chanel exhibition took over 2 floors of the gallery.  My impressions of the exhibition were good, but it felt a bit disoriented.  The first floor was a collection of rooms that were meant to represent rooms from when Coco Chanel first started, there was a room that was from her apartment, a room that was from her shop.  The exhibition also had an app that enhanced the rooms.  The app wasn't really consistent, the connection would go in and out, I became a bit frustrated with it so I stopped using it.  On the second floor was a collection of clothes and and also diamond jewelry.  I would have liked to have seen more clothes and accessories.  Chanel started out as a milliner so it would have been nice to see some of her hats from when she started.
  
Highlight of the exhibition, the free parting gift, a cute reusable canvas bag! 

Check out my images from the exhibition below...

One section of the clothes were all of these transparent dresses and they were on a column with a light to better show their transparency.

This was the start of the evening wear with the diamond jewelry.  The room was quite dark so the images are not the best.

There was a whole room of white and black fabric hanging from the ceiling.  The selection of fabric included the tweed fabric that is used on the signature Chanel suits. 

Below was a bucket of the chains that are used on the Chanel handbags.

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I was born in the early 80s so I only vaguely remember participating in some the key trends of the 80s, leg warmers, sequins, starter jackets, shoulder pads, and scrunches.  But the 80s are back in big and modern way. 

Images from the runway show...

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