Runway shows that made Chanel the hottest ticket at Fashion Week
5 years, 10 months ago

Runway shows that made Chanel the hottest ticket at Fashion Week

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Lagerfeld enjoyed a glittering career in fashion, but it was Chanel that propelled him to rock-star status, as he sexed up the brand and lifted its profile thanks in no small part to his grandiose runway shows. These have featured a full-scale beach and an enormous replica ship, with previous offerings including a real-life ice berg imported from Scandinavia and a full-scale working supermarket. Here, we reveal the eye-popping set designs that made Chanel the hottest ticket at Paris Fashion Week year after year. JANUARY 2019: A luxurious villa complete with swimming pool to present Chanel's Spring-Summer Haute Couture fashion show - the first that Lagerfeld did not attend OCTOBER 2018: Fashion editors are left agog as Paris' Grand Palais is transformed into a sprawling beach complete with lapping waves, sand and a beach hut MARCH 2017: Lift-off in the Grand Palais, Paris as a giant rocket ship appears to take flight during the womenswear AW 2017-2018 show MARCH 2014: Chanel transforms the Grand Palais into a supersize supermarket complete with shelves and checkouts.

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Naomi Campbell leads the front row glamour at Paris Fashion Week as she joins glamorous Margaret Qualley and Lupita Nyong'o for Chanel Womenswear presentation
3 months, 1 week ago

Naomi Campbell leads the front row glamour at Paris Fashion Week as she joins glamorous Margaret Qualley and Lupita Nyong'o for Chanel Womenswear presentation

Daily Mail  

A week of high-end couture showed no sign of ending as Chanel unveiled its latest collection in front of a star-studded guest list at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. Naomi Campbell led the front row glamour as Chanel presented its new collection at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday morning Actresses Margaret Qualley and Lupita Nyong'o were also in attendance as …

Exhibition honors iconic French designer who set the scene
5 months, 1 week ago

Exhibition honors iconic French designer who set the scene

China Daily  

A view of the ongoing exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai. CHINA DAILY The ongoing exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai is the first retrospective devoted to the work of the fashion icon held in China. Held from July 12 to Nov 24, the exhibition is co-organized by the PSA …

Exhibition honors iconic French designer who set the scene
5 months, 1 week ago

Exhibition honors iconic French designer who set the scene

China Daily  

A view of the ongoing exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai. CHINA DAILY The ongoing exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai is the first retrospective devoted to the work of the fashion icon held in China. Held from July 12 to Nov 24, the exhibition is co-organized by the PSA …

Chanel melds romance and reality at Paris Couture Week
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Chanel melds romance and reality at Paris Couture Week

The Independent  

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Chanel takes haute couture fashion to Paris Opera house
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Chanel takes haute couture fashion to Paris Opera house

Hindustan Times  

By Mimosa Spencer HT Image PARIS, - Chanel held its haute couture show at the Paris Palais Garnier Opera house on Tuesday, displaying a lineup of sparkly evening wear that ranged from trim, embellished tweed ensembles to voluminous, silk taffeta capes. The show was held as the French luxury house enters a transition period and gears up for design reset, …

Virginie Viard exits Chanel, leaving top fashion job open
7 months ago

Virginie Viard exits Chanel, leaving top fashion job open

CNN  

CNN — Virginie Viard is exiting Chanel after five years serving as the French luxury house’s artistic director of fashion collections. In a press statement to CNN, Chanel confirmed Viard’s departure, writing that while the 62-year-old designer was at the helm, “she was able to renew the codes of the house while respecting the creative heritage of Chanel, and almost …

Paris Fashion Week: Chanel revisits Deauville roots; Louis Vuitton's Nicolas Ghesquière celebrates 10 years
10 months ago

Paris Fashion Week: Chanel revisits Deauville roots; Louis Vuitton's Nicolas Ghesquière celebrates 10 years

Hindustan Times  

In a cinematic homage blurring fashion and film, Chanel transported its audience at Paris Fashion Week to a fictional Deauville for its latest showcase. Fusing the 1920s heyday of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel with the drama of the ’70s, designer Virginie Viard recreated the founder’s gender-fluid wardrobe from the “winter sojourns by the sea.” Deauville changed the course of Chanel and …

Chanel serves big hat energy at Paris Fashion Week as Gigi Hadid owns the runway
10 months ago

Chanel serves big hat energy at Paris Fashion Week as Gigi Hadid owns the runway

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Paris Fashion Week: Sleek silhouettes, floral elegance and a protest mark Hermès show
1 year, 3 months ago

Paris Fashion Week: Sleek silhouettes, floral elegance and a protest mark Hermès show

Hindustan Times  

Hermes artistic director Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski evoked a country garden for her spring show at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, seating the audience among wildflowers and grassy borders as she showed sleek coats, silk skirts and slim, skin-baring dresses. Models present creations for Hermes during a show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 in Paris. Paris Fashion …

The legend lives on: New exhibition devoted to Chanel's life and work opens at London's V&A Museum
1 year, 3 months ago

The legend lives on: New exhibition devoted to Chanel's life and work opens at London's V&A Museum

The Independent  

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Chanel lures stars with cruise fashion show in Los Angeles
1 year, 7 months ago

Chanel lures stars with cruise fashion show in Los Angeles

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Chanel lures stars with cruise fashion show in Los Angeles
1 year, 7 months ago

Chanel lures stars with cruise fashion show in Los Angeles

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — With stars like Margot Robbie and Lil Nas X sitting in the front row, Virginie Viard’s sporty clothing designs inspired by Hollywood glam shined just as bright during a Chanel fashion show in Los Angeles. A massive screen as long as the court showed various black-and-white videos of dancing Chanel models and aerial images of Los Angeles …

Chanel gets gently geometric in far-flung Paris couture
2 years, 6 months ago

Chanel gets gently geometric in far-flung Paris couture

Hindustan Times  

Birds tweeted - not fashionistas - the day Chanel brought its couture guests to the calm of the Bois de Boulogne forest. Here are some highlights of the day’s fall-winter 2022 collections: CHANEL’S SOFTNESS With a somewhat incongruous drum rendition via video recording, Chanel ambassador Pharrell Williams rousingly kicked off proceedings before the “real” show began -- to soft music …

Chanel gets gently geometric in far-flung Paris couture
2 years, 6 months ago

Chanel gets gently geometric in far-flung Paris couture

Associated Press  

PARIS — Birds tweeted -- not fashionistas -- the day Chanel brought its couture guests to the calm of the Bois de Boulogne forest. Here are some highlights of the day’s fall-winter 2022 collections: CHANEL’S SOFTNESS With a somewhat incongruous drum rendition via video recording, Chanel ambassador Pharrell Williams rousingly kicked off proceedings before the “real” show began -- to …

Why Chanel’s cruise collections are the last word in resort-wear
2 years, 8 months ago

Why Chanel’s cruise collections are the last word in resort-wear

Live Mint  

Coco Chanel was one of the first design mavens to craft holiday wear for her High Net-Worth Individual loyalists. Hence it wasn't surprising to see the late Karl Lagerfeld create a sprawling ship named La Pausa, named after Chanel’s summer house in the South of France, for the hallowed French luxury house's Resort 2019 outing. The Chanel Cruise 2019 show …

Paris Fashion Week women’s ready-to-wear 2022: How to watch the shows online
2 years, 10 months ago

Paris Fashion Week women’s ready-to-wear 2022: How to watch the shows online

CNN  

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. CNN — This week, Fashion Week continues in Paris with the next round of women’s ready-to-wear shows for the Fall-Winter 2022 season. High-fashion streetwear brand Off-White will show for the first time since founder Virgil Abloh passed away in November last year. Similarly, The Row …

Chanel Paris Fashion Week show loses its charm as it sends a horse down the runway
2 years, 11 months ago

Chanel Paris Fashion Week show loses its charm as it sends a horse down the runway

Daily Mail  

Chanel's Paris Fashion Week shows are legendary for their elaborate set pieces, which in the past have included the Grand Palais transformed into a train station, a shopping mall and a winter wonderland. A touch of star power: Margot Robbie and Vanessa Paradis were some of the few Hollywood faces to make it to the show Sitting pretty: Margot sat …

Chanel hosts family reunion in absence of big Haute Couture show
3 years, 11 months ago

Chanel hosts family reunion in absence of big Haute Couture show

Hindustan Times  

French fashion house Chanel chose to put family at the forefront of its Spring-Summer 2021 Haute Couture show, with models strutting under flower arches at a socially-distanced presentation with a few famous faces. With France under Covid-19 restrictions, the label, like others, shared a video online on Tuesday of its show to fashionistas at a time when traditional catwalk presentations, …

Chanel Paris Fashion Week show goes on despite rise in Covid-19 cases and new restrictions
4 years, 3 months ago

Chanel Paris Fashion Week show goes on despite rise in Covid-19 cases and new restrictions

Daily Mail  

Fashionistas flocked to the Chanel Paris Fashion Week show today despite a recent rise in Covid-19 cases that has seen tighter restrictions introduced across the city. Pictured, models on the catwalk Reuters reports that the show was socially-distanced, with seating spaced out, however the attendees looked to be in the hundreds Chanel's latest outing showcased inspiration drawn from Hollywood's 1950s …

The pandemic hit the fashion industry hard, but Paris Fashion Week is going ahead in September
4 years, 6 months ago

The pandemic hit the fashion industry hard, but Paris Fashion Week is going ahead in September

CNN  

CNN — Paris Fashion Week will go ahead this fall, the event’s organizers have confirmed, with shows starting September 28. Major brands normally follow a hectic schedule of separate men’s and women’s runway events at Autumn-Winter and Spring-Summer fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, and often stage additional one-off “cruise” and pre-Autumn shows. Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty …

Louis Vuitton's clash of styles wraps up Paris Fashion Week
4 years, 10 months ago

Louis Vuitton's clash of styles wraps up Paris Fashion Week

China Daily  

A model presents a creation by designer Nicolas Ghesquiere as part of his Fall/Winter 2020/21 women's ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Louis Vuitton during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, March 3, 2020. March 3 - Louis Vuitton wrapped up Paris Fashion week on Tuesday with a mix-up of retro-chic, sporty and futuristic looks set to a baroque soundtrack …

Louis Vuitton's clash of styles wraps up Paris Fashion Week
4 years, 10 months ago

Louis Vuitton's clash of styles wraps up Paris Fashion Week

China Daily  

A model presents a creation by designer Nicolas Ghesquiere as part of his Fall/Winter 2020/21 women's ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Louis Vuitton during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, March 3, 2020. March 3 - Louis Vuitton wrapped up Paris Fashion week on Tuesday with a mix-up of retro-chic, sporty and futuristic looks set to a baroque soundtrack …

Chanel’s new designer, Viard, unveils couture debut with a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld
5 years, 6 months ago

Chanel’s new designer, Viard, unveils couture debut with a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld

Hindustan Times  

Chanel’s new chief Virginie Viard merged the worlds of two of its most famous couturiers, those of Gabrielle Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, for a cerebral couture show in Paris set inside a huge circular library. Model Kaia Gerber wears a creation for the Chanel Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2020 fashion collection presented in Paris, Tuesday, July 2 2019. Models wear …

Karl Lagerfeld memorial to be held at the Grand Palais during Paris Men's Fashion Week
5 years, 6 months ago

Karl Lagerfeld memorial to be held at the Grand Palais during Paris Men's Fashion Week

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Chanel Cruise 2020: Karl Lagerfeld's successor Virginie Viard puts on first solo show in Paris
5 years, 8 months ago

Chanel Cruise 2020: Karl Lagerfeld's successor Virginie Viard puts on first solo show in Paris

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Chanel presents first show after Lagerfeld’s death
5 years, 8 months ago

Chanel presents first show after Lagerfeld’s death

Hindustan Times  

Chanel’s new creative chief Virginie Viard delivered her first solo collection for the storied French luxury label on Friday, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld with a show that drew inspiration from old-fashioned rail travel. A model presents a creation during the Cruise 2020 collection show for French fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, May …

Chanel honours late Karl Lagerfeld with minute silence at snow-covered Paris Fashion Week show
5 years, 10 months ago

Chanel honours late Karl Lagerfeld with minute silence at snow-covered Paris Fashion Week show

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A moment of silence at Chanel’s first show without Karl Lagerfeld
5 years, 10 months ago

A moment of silence at Chanel’s first show without Karl Lagerfeld

CNN  

CNN — French fashion house Chanel paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, its late creative director, at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday morning. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images An illustrated card left on each seat at the show featured a drawing of Lagerfeld with Chanel founder Coco Chanel, with the words “The beat goes on…” written above their heads. “Thanks to his …

End of an era, say Indian designers on Karl Lagerfeld’s death
5 years, 10 months ago

End of an era, say Indian designers on Karl Lagerfeld’s death

Hindustan Times  

German designer Karl Lagerfeld’s death in Paris on Tuesday left a void among the members of the fashion fraternity across the world. The late, Karl Lagerfeld, walks the runway during the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 4, 2016 in Paris, France. Sunil Sethi, FDCI President I was seeing an interview yesterday …

Lagerfeld’s legacy: Youthful designs, elaborate showmanship
5 years, 10 months ago

Lagerfeld’s legacy: Youthful designs, elaborate showmanship

Hindustan Times  

Karl Lagerfeld once created a Walmart-sized Chanel Shopping Center to show off his ready-to-wear collection. It featured aisle upon aisle of luxury foods labeled “one for the price of two.” FILE -- In this Nov. 29, 1973 photo German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, left, poses with models in Krefeld, Germany. Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well …

Legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld dies at 85 in Paris
5 years, 10 months ago

Legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld dies at 85 in Paris

India Today  

Karl Lagerfeld, the artistic director of fashion brands Chanel, Fendi and Lagerfeld, died in Paris on Tuesday. There was speculation about the designer's health condition after he missed the final bow at Paris Fashion Week's Chanel haute couture show for the first time ever. The Chanel show without Karl Lagerfeld, which took place last month, led to rumours about his …

Karl Lagerfeld, designer who translated the mood of the moment and saved Chanel, dies
5 years, 10 months ago

Karl Lagerfeld, designer who translated the mood of the moment and saved Chanel, dies

LA Times  

Chanel was a faded fashion empire when Karl Lagerfeld arrived to see if he could pump life back into the tired brand. Anna Wintour, Melania Trump and Kim Kardashian pay tribute to Karl Lagerfeld » “When Lagerfeld took over the Chanel collections, they had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel,” said former fashion editor …

Lagerfeld's legacy: Youthful designs, elaborate showmanship
5 years, 10 months ago

Lagerfeld's legacy: Youthful designs, elaborate showmanship

China Daily  

German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Spring/Summer 2013 women's ready-to-wear fashion show for French fashion house Chanel during Paris fashion week, Oct 2, 2012. PARIS — Karl Lagerfeld once created a Walmart-sized "Chanel Shopping Center" to show off his ready-to-wear collection. German designer Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Spring/Summer 2013 women's ready-to-wear fashion …

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