© Karim Sadli
Angèle wears an oval design with a contrasting frame to which a necklace of grey faux pearls is attached. Captured by Karim Sadli in the latest CHANEL Spring-Summer 2020 eyewear campaign.
© Karim Sadli
Margaret Qualley appears beneath a butterfly frame in black metal, linked with a string of white pearls. Captured by Karim Sadli in the latest CHANEL Spring-Summer 2020 eyewear campaign.
© Karim Sadli
The oversized rectangular design in black acetate worn by Pharrell Williams is embellished with fine metal plaques engraved with a motif that evokes a woven tweed. Captured by Karim Sadli in the latest CHANEL Spring-Summer 2020 eyewear campaign.
Musician Pharrell Williams, actress Margaret Qualley, singer Angèle, actress Isabelle Adjani and musician Sébastien Tellier: the aura of these five artists lights up the latest CHANEL Spring-Summer 2020 eyewear campaign, photographed by Karim Sadli.
© Gareth Cattermole
© Gareth Cattermole
House ambassador Keira Knightley attended the premiere of ‘Misbehaviour’ wearing a white tweed dress with a lace cape from the CHANEL Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection.
© Jojo Whilden
A look behind the scenes of the latest CHANEL 19 bag campaign with Margaret Qualley, Marine Vacth and Taylor Russell.
“Rising out of a misty mirrored floor in the Grand Palais, a landscape of concentric white islands multiplied in feminine curves was framed in inky black. As the swell of composer Michel Legrand’s orchestral stylings graduated into the soothing vocal and electronic beats of Planningtorock for CHANEL, the usual rush of a runway show was forgotten as bevies of models wandered by, appearing in mismatched trios and pairs or striding in defiant solace. Each wore soft black boots folding up the knee to reveal a chestnut-coloured cuff – inspired by the kind Karl Lagerfeld once wore. Gustave Doré drew them and Proust wrote about them – riding boots as common ground, the fil rouge for a collection teeming with liberated gestures of modern romance.
Impossible to escape, nods to equestrian life were woven throughout the soft silhouettes, from the sweeping cut of tweed redingotes to the ample jodhpurs that underpinned many a delicate blouse or knit strewn with jewelled crosses and pearls. Look closely, you will even pick up an interpretation of the casaque worn by the jockey of ‘Romantica’, Gabrielle Chanel’s racehorse. Above all though, it was the shiny domes of silver snap studs and cabochon buttons that trimmed trousers, skirt suits and dashing opera coats that defined the season’s undone graphic ease. Dresses were rare gems amongst the cornucopia of tailoring, revealed in sumptuous velvets, lustrous taffeta and crafty tweed. In their sobriety they left room for whimsy elsewhere, like the tone-on-tone seed pearl frogging on a snowy scalloped jacket over apron mini-shorts followed by its sisters accented by feathered puff sleeves or encrusted epaulettes. As CHANEL sound designer Michel Gaubert cued Philippe Sarde’s Les Choses de la Vie for a stirring finale, the consummate vision of Virginie Viard’s collection was of a nonchalant and New Wave femininity – dressed up but undone, simultaneously adorned and as effortless as can be.”
Now playing on Apple Music — the CHANEL Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear show’s soundtrack.
Ambassadors and friends of the House gathered in Paris for the Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear show.
GIGI wearing the Fall-Winter 2020/21 Ready-to-Wear collection.
Part of a series of 40 portraits by Inez & Vinoodh.