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The Run-Through with Vogue

Chemena Kamali on Her Second Collection For Chloé and "Boho"

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2724 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chemena Kamali, creative director of Chloé, joins Nicole Phelps and Vogue’s Mark Holgate to chat about her upcoming collection for Paris Fashion Week. Chemena also shares how she felt about the success of her first show, why she thinks so many women (from Kamala Harris to Sienna Miller) love wearing Chloé, and why she doesn’t like using the word “boho”.

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0:00.0

This is The Run Through.

0:10.0

I'm Nicole Phelps.

0:11.0

And I'm Mark Hall Gates.

0:13.0

Today on the show, we are talking to Chaminah Kamali.

0:16.0

Chimina joined Chloe as creative director in October of last year.

0:24.5

And this role is her third time working at Chloe, which is pretty remarkable.

0:29.6

She was an intern, then a junior designer, and she was first there 20 years ago.

0:34.3

Yes, and from being worn by Sienna Miller to VP Kamala Harris,

0:39.9

I think we can safely say that Chloe is having a moment, thanks to her. And we talked about the success of her first show, how she stays grounded throughout the immense success that

0:45.5

she's enjoying, what we can expect from the next show, and of course, that four-letter word,

0:50.7

Boho. I always like going back to Gabby Aguillon, the founder of Chloe, because

0:55.9

so unique in the history of French fashion, right? It's a story of a lot of men launching

1:01.6

couture brands. A lot of men. I mean, I think that's what's really interesting. She's not perhaps

1:06.6

given the accolades and recognition that she deserves for founding that house in the 50s,

1:14.6

but also being a woman founding a fashion house, which was really about meeting the needs of women

1:19.0

in the post-war world. It wasn't about evening gowns and furs and couture. It was really about

1:25.7

a very grounded, real way of thinking how women might

1:29.4

want to dress. And you can see that correlation between then and the Chloe that Shemina's

1:35.7

envisaging for today, it really kind of makes sense. In fact, there was an exhibition of Chloe

1:41.8

collections over the decades at the Jewish Museum in New York earlier this year.

1:46.8

And one thing the curator pointed out is that there's not a lot of Chloe from those very early

1:52.4

years. And I think it's because, as has been true over the decades with a lot of the designers

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