Fall-Winter 1977- 1978 ready-to-wear by Karl Lagerfeld for Chloé. Outfit : " Forain "

She walks in like a secret, inside a sleeping palace. The dress doesn’t touch the floor — it anticipates it. Each dark flower is a buried thought, a dream caught in sheer fabric. Black here isn’t mourning — it is restraint, elevated. The fur-lined hems are whispers, soft parentheses in a velvet sentence. Her gaze is chiaroscuro: she knows, but she waits. There’s silence in this silhouette, but it’s a silence that speaks. A winter Venice, stripped of carnival but rich with memory. This is not a dress — it’s a textile enigma. And Karl Lagerfeld becomes, in this moment, a poet of restraint. Elegance isn’t shouted; it’s breathed.