I have recently been to the Gabrielle Chanel Exhibition in Melbourne at the National Gallery of Victoria. It was impressive being surrounded by the energy of this powerful distinct woman and her creations from the 20th century.
Gabrielle Chanel rewrote the rules of fashion and style. Her fashion manifesto was a design style based on streamlined simplicity and ease of movement, this manifesto shaped the definition of fashion and became guidelines for elegance and style that is still relevant today.
At the show, I noticed that many of the colours used for the looks were similar to the colour palette that I used for The Lobby in 2017, a whisky bar at Le Montage developed by Navarra in Sydney’s Inner West. I noticed shades similar to the soft black of Dulux’s Domino shade, the crisp white of its Lexicon shade, and the warm, creamy tone of its Crewelwork shade. All the key colours of the whisky bar’s décor.
I always try to stay ahead of the times and incorporate colours and combinations that are a little different in my projects, and a little different from the current colour trends, so that the design is less likely to look outdated, several years down the line.
“We always begin by making the dresses of dreams. The new have to cut, trim and remove, never add” Gabrielle Chanel, 1957
