Hannah MacGibbon, the British designer at the helm of Parisienne house Chloe is ‘manning-up’ the Chloe girl. Whilst there remains in a lingering state with the sheer elegance of a floating floor length crepe skirt or sport ultra-short shorts in buttery leather, it is however succinctly represented for the soon to be released collection in British sartorialism. Hannah has been clearly interjecting more of a British ruggedness and though the more masculine silhouette in tartan, Prince of Wales checks are quintessential hallmarks of Saville Row and adorned by businessman and everyday working men particularly in the earlier 20th century, the initial mental shots of Annie Hall permeates itself. However, it’s much more of an English savoir faire whereby Jeeves and Wooster played by British actor Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry shows MacGibbon’s true colours. A round neck knitted sweater in a woven diamond pattern and speckled melange, a button-down wider hem trouser and elongated buttoned mackintosh in a check pattern, a boxy structured blazer suit ensemble and to sum up Chloe climatically, the pivotal cape coat in rich camel brown whose bottom lengths are undulating like grand curtains of a royal stage theatre.
The floating, soft and palatable side of Chloe is still there and she lies beneath the more structured aristocratic signatures. The three-quarter sleeved silk chiffon dress with mini-collared ruffles and a dreamy midnight deep blue shoulder gown ball dress Hannah still channels a conveyed woman with many wearable options of dexterous workwear and deletable eveningwear.
