ITS IN this intermediate period since the announcement of Virginie Viard's departure and the declaration of her successor that Chanel's Fashion Creation Studio are using the AW25 couture collection as an oppor...
THE CRUISE collections for Chanel have become an emblem of rebellion at the historic French fashion house. It started in 2022 when it showed in Dakar, Senegal. In 2023, it headed north to Manchester.
And f...
TRANSFORMING the runway into the Deauville boardwalk, Virginie Viard – Chanel’s creative director – returned to the Maison’s roots for its autumn-winter 2024 ready-to-wear collection. Considered an origin poin...
AN EASILY forgettable part of a garment but one that symbolises freedom from restraint, the button is what Virginie Viard began with when designing Chanel's spring-summer 2024 couture collection. It opens an i...
CHANEL showcased its behind-the-scenes backstage show preparation for their spring-summer 2024 collection which recently debuted during Paris Fashion Week.
With inspiration derived from the artistic essence...
IF YOU had begun to miss the sunnier months, Virginie Viard brought the holiday spirit to the Grand Palais with Chanel's spring-summer 2024 collection. Turning our heads away from the cooler temperatures and a...
ON THE cobblestone sidewalks of the Seine with the Eiffel Tower standing tall in the background, Paris looked like a postcard, like a still from an old rom-com and the romantic setting for Chanel's autumn-wint...
INTERLOCKING CC's, tweed and camellias are all suggestions of one thing - Chanel. Picking the latter as inspiration for autumn-winter 2023, Virginie Viard decided to pay tribute to this floral motif, crafting a...
AN ANIMAL instinct has appeared to take over couture week, with Chanel’s latest collection designed by Virginie Viard being no exception. Amongst a wonderland of wooden animals, embroidered suits, floral patter...
THIS WAS not a quick decision nor something that only took a few months of planning, but rather a presentation that has been slowly building up over years. “Going beyond the runway show, it's the event as a who...
WHILST Virginie Viard began designing Chanel’s spring-summer 2023 collection, Alain Resnais' 1961 film, Last Year in Marienbad left the designer enraptured. The black-and-white film centred around the romance o...
PRESENTED in the heart of the French Riviera, creative director Virginia Viard debuted a collection for Cruise 2022/23 in honour of her predecessor and mentor, Karl Lagerfeld, with a cohesive series of looks an...
IT WAS sometime during the early 1920s when Gabrielle Chanel first ignited her love for tweed during a trip to Scotland with the Duke of Westminster. The classic British outfits worn by the aristocrats the desi...
CHANEL makes a grand entrance into Paris Fashion Week SS22. Model Charlotte Casiraghi opened the runway show on horseback, sporting a Chanel jacket made of their classic black tweed and decorative sequins.
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IT CAN be hard to recapture a moment. Especially the timeless, widely adored era of the nineties at Chanel when supermodels strutted freely down the raised runway and photographers swarmed around its corners in...
IF THERE was ever a museum worth raiding it would be the Palais Galliera. Packed from wall-to-wall with snippets of fashion and its history, this sanctuary of clothes became the idyllic backdrop to the Chanel a...
“HER writing is a writing of desire. She always invents a language to translate the untranslatable, a language of the body, a hyper responsive language in which the power of words creates a feeling of dizzines...
IF YOU, like me, have read intro-upon-intro and multiple iterations of how the pandemic has taken its toll on the traditional fashion schedule as we all once knew it, then you will have become well accustomed t...
PRESENTED in a film directed by Inez and Vinoodh, Chanel unveiled Virginie Viard’s AW21 collection in the Parisian club Castel. With garments inspired by a combination of ski holidays and Parisian chic, the Cha...