Chanel Haute-Couture 12-13 show

Karl Lagerfeld doesn't like vintage, so he invented "new vintage" which is his way of honoring  timeless couture for women who love Chanel tailoring, gentle colors and tour de force elegance. Lagerfeld displayed all this gentility in the Salon d'Honneur of Paris's  Grand Palais, a space that hasn't been used in 70 years, set to duplicate Chanel's original couture salon and underscore  the rare  feeling of the house's  couture this season.  Soft shapes and daywear dominated, from easy-tailored tweed suits  to the mock tweeds, rich, intricate renderings of tweed in embroidery, appliqué and massive amounts of sequins which require thousands of hours of handwork and  highlight the amazing scope of the Chanel atelier