After covering Vogue Italia in a bikini, 46-year-old
Kristen McMenamy slipped back into a swimsuit for Monday's Chanel Croisiere
show at the Hotel du Cap in Cap d'Antibes, France.
The silver-haired
supermodel led the way for Karl Lagerfeld's cruise collection models, clad
chiefly in black, white, black-and-white or a bold print...or a bejeweled
turban, in the case of the kaiser's man muse Baptiste Giabiconi.
Would-be Marlene
Dietrichs sauntered the catwalk in bias-cut gowns of ivory silk that twinkled
at the neckline with oversized pearls, their sultry gaits reflecting the very
easygoing getaway chic that the Cruise line is meant to embody.
"It's about
dressing down these very sumptuous looks, about easy elegance," the
label's uber-designer, Karl Lagerfeld, told The Associated Press in a post-show
interview.
"This is about
the women of Cannes, women who mix bathing suits with real pearls and
diamonds," Lagerfeld said. "After all, you can't wear fakes into the
water."
Obviously not! What an
utterly unsophisticated assumption.
