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• Chloé autumn-winter fashion 2012 Collection at Paris

  
  06 March 2012
  

  Chloé autumn-winter fashion 2012 Collection: Clare Waight Keller had only a few brief weeks to rustle up her debut Chloé collection last September, and it showed: today she took a definite step forward.

  

   

  Sugar-sweet macaroon shades, Barbour-esque quilting, pale flower-strewn lace and roughed-up knitwear were just a few of the ingredients in what felt like a much more considered recipe for a Waight Keller's version of the Chloé girl.

  

  Pastel parkas in picnic-blanket fluffy wool had quilted shoulder panels and looked snugly embracing, yet were served with a sharpener of form-fitting high-waisted cream trousers. There were a couple of cool, long dresses - in apple red and dark green - with torso-shapes clean and unadorned enough to balance their quilted effect skirts. The shiny, elasticated-hem effect culottes worked less well than the high-waisted trackie-bum strides, teamed nicely with with sweatshirt style tops in that flowery lace.

  Sometimes Waight Keller's combinations felt too considered, and hence veered closer to saccharine than to sweet - a quilted pale lemon skirt worn against a one shouldered light blue blouse sporting an arm-thwackingly large bow, for instance.

  Often it was the less try-hard pieces that did more: one three-quarter-sleeved, to-the-knee double-breasted black overcoat that came insouciantly fastened with a single, double-pearled pin at the model's left hip bone looked simultaneously glamorous, youthful and casual.

  (telegraph fashion news)