ballerina film debuts on chanel.com

The latest Chanel short film features Elena Glurdjidze, a senior principal dancer with the English National Ballet, wearing a custom tutu made of tulle and more than 2,500 feathers. The costume took three seamstresses at Chanel’s Lemarié atelier more than 100 hours to construct.  According to WWD, Glurdjidze gave Karl Lagerfeld an unplanned performance of "The Dying Swan" when she dropped by the Chanel couture salon earlier this month for a final fitting. Lagerfeld filmed it and the three-minute black and white video went live on chanel.com Wednesday.