Spring Couture 2010: Chanel

I'm speechless and frothing: An immaculate, frothy, coolly masterful collection, which raises 'pretty' into an art. There's nothing laboured about the minute work that I'm sure went into the construction of these confections. (As an instructive comparison, do look at Givenchy couture to see how sadly heavy the effect is; The weight makes it look 100 years old old, like leafing through old issues of Vogue Paris in an airless and dusty secondhand book store.) The pale pastel suits were there but I think the focus has to be the fluffy cocktail dresses that look like candied clouds. Note: The bride (what a fairytale gown!), clutching Karl's boy, has white Karl hair...