
Keira Knightley Wedding Dress Chanel
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“It absolutely has been about 10 years, hasn’t it?” Keira Knightley asks, acquainted that she was alone 21 at the time her aboriginal attack for Chanel, a Coco Mademoiselle ad photographed by Dominique Issermann, was attempt in 2007. “It’s actual abundant a accord that’s been congenital over the years, and I feel awfully fortunate,” she says. “The affair about Chanel is that there are almost few bodies alive at the top, so I feel like it’s a baby family.”
Almost a decade later, Knightley is sitting on the 7th attic of Bergdorf Goodman, cutting a fleet and platinum A-line coatdress from Chanel’s Fall 2016 haute-couture collection, and acceptance she never takes such a moment in stride. “It’s a appropriate affair to be cutting what is about a assignment of art,” she says, her fingers active over the bags of hand-sewn sequins that awning the checky dress. “I additionally adulation that it’s this iconic, amazing cast that was started by a woman and the bequest that goes with that. But aback aback I started, I had no apprehension the accord would aftermost this long.”
["536.41"]Knightley’s appropriate accord is key to her actualization at Bergdorf Goodman on Tuesday evening, to asperse the Jewel Box, a pop-up accession — or, in Chanel parlance, “ephemeral boutique” — that opened to the accessible Wednesday morning (the Jewel Box is accessible through Sunday at Bergdorf Goodman). Styled as a chichi Parisian apartment, the Jewel Box offers a glimpse not alone at the quintessential affairs one ability anticipate as a fan of both a allegorical French characterization and a acclaimed New York administration store, but additionally in the effortless alloy of how a Parisian woman ability abrasion her jewelry: a checky yellow-gold belt commutual with a arena splashed with white diamonds, for archetype — all pieces from altered collections, and yet the mix aloof works. The latest collection, Coco Crush, was displayed alongside archetypal and antecedent pieces still offered for sale; Knightley will be featured in the Coco Crush attack in ads that will breach in October magazines.
The Jewel Box accession additionally celebrates the affiliation of Chanel and Bergdorf Goodman, explains Linda Fargo, the retailer’s chief vp of appearance and abundance presentation director. “It took us a while to acquisition absolutely the appropriate area for their accomplished adornment on our capital floor, and the appropriate way to put it all together,” she says (Chanel’s accomplished adornment shop-in-shop opened at Bergdorf Goodman in April). “Once we fabricated it happen, again it was aloof an abstraction of, 'How do you appropriately bless it and barrage it?'” The Jewel Box cocktail party, which additionally drew Alexa Chung, Amy Astley, Stefano Tonchi and Derek Blasberg, was followed by a banquet at the Kelly Wearstler-designed BG Restaurant.
["744.96"]Even with a abundant accidental of Chanel advisers in the abode — including fine-jewelry administrator Benjamin Comar and controlling vp of appearance Joyce Green — the glamor of the night centered on Knightley, whose affection for the abode extends above the professional. Granted, she’s attempt three Chanel attack films with Joe Wright, who additionally directed her in Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina (you additionally can atom Chanel accomplished adornment in the closing two films). “When Chanel aboriginal approached us, it wasn’t about aloof absent me or absent Joe — they absolutely capital the aggregation that had done Pride & Prejudice,” Knightley credibility out. “He and I are now accompany — his youngest son is three months earlier than my daughter, so we now actually do comedy dates in the sandpit. But it’s additionally actual attenuate to acquisition addition with whom you allotment a artistic language. I feel actual advantageous to accept begin that both aural my activity and aural my career.”
Yet there’s addition moment, Knightley feels, that cements her accord with the French house. It’s the now-famous account of her bells dress — but do you apperceive all the details? “I’d beat it already afore to a party,” she says of the blush tulle strapless dress. “I remembered it additionally because I concluded up accepting to escape out the aback of the abode — we capital to leave, but there were all these photographers out front, so a accumulation of us climbed bottomward a drainpipe and jumped into a big dustbin and ran off. It was aloof one of those nights area you go, 'OK, that happened, that was a abundant night.'”
["970"]Fast-forward to Knightley’s 2013 bells to James Righton. She already had a $67,000 Valentino haute-couture clothes for the academic ceremony, but bare a dress for the civilian service. “I anon thought, 'The dress, the drainpipe, the dress — that’s absolutely what’s required,'” Knightley remembers. But she additionally wondered if the dress still existed, accustomed that Chanel, like abounding appearance houses, commonly destroys samples not accounted important for its archives. “I phoned up my acquaintance Elsa at Chanel and asked, ‘Do you bethink that dress from years ago? Do you still accept it?’ And she said, ‘It’s actually in the accumulation to be destroyed.’ So I adored it twice, and now I accept it at home, area it will never be destroyed.”
Guests are starting their comfortable airing into banquet as Knightley smiles and thinks about that moment. “It was destiny,” she says. “I’ve had a absolutely acceptable time in that dress.”
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