Chloé
Designer: Clare Waight Keller

• “Chloé makes ready-to-wear that’s ready to wear and doesn’t pretend otherwise. This honest attitude was on full display in Clare Waight Keller’s collection of 41 highly wearable looks.” [AP]
• “A preppy, yet feminine collection featuring the house’s greatest hits.” [The Daily Beast]
• “Playfully tweaking the enforced properness of school kit’s time-honoured tropes–bib-dresses, pleated skirts, PE kit trousers, V-neck jumpers and identifying stripes–the designer added hoik, hardware and the lushest of fabrics.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “Brit girl in Paris Clare Waight Keller brought back some awkward but feisty teenage memories at Chloé.” [Dazed Digital]
• “School was out for, well, autumn as Clare Waight Keller showed her fourth collection for Chloé in the Jardins des Tuileries on Sunday afternoon, and college never looked so good.” [i-D Online]
• “Chloé is so fundamentally Parisienne that it is tricky territory for a British designer to inhabit while maintaining her identity, but Waight Keller is managing the balancing act. Her fourth collection blended Parisian polish (plenty of navy, touches of flirty sheer net) with London punch.” [The Guardian]
• “The designs of Clare Waight Keller were sharp, concise and well-designed, tailoring at its best.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “Claire Waight Keller’s show notes for Chloé’s Fall 2013 collection described a myriad of inspirations: night buses, independent spirit, bare legs, bike sheds, flirting, cold nights, and tough girls. How all that translates to the actual pieces on the runway is anyone’s guess, but that doesn’t really matter. These were great clothes.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “Claire Wright Keller is an intelligent designer creating clothes for women, not girls, women with jobs and lives so that schoolgirl feel was measured, never going off the edge to cuteville.” [SHOWstudio]
• “All you need to do is picture the girl who is taking a very British phenomenon of a social melting pot on wheels. … Bring her across la manche to Paris, as Waight Keller did, and she becomes quite a different creature; her look takes on an elevation akin to hitting the ‘Up’ button, ascending from the street to the 104th floor in seconds.” [Vogue.com]
• “It was a little more grown-up and there was something a little back-to-school about it, commercial and instantly wearable pieces that are sure to be a hit.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “Waight Keller kept a school-days spirit about the lineup, showing pinafore dresses with straps that mimicked backpacks and a plethora of great capes in an inky shade of blue, yet the sharp minimalist cuts tailored the look for a mature, stylish audience.” [WWD]