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Chanel takes Edinburgh with Rouge Allure Velvet Nuit Blanche Pop Up

February 19, 2024

OPENING in Edinburgh from the 9-30 March 2024, Chanel is hosting an exclusive temporary beauty pop-up to celebrate the launch of Rouge Allure Velvet Nuit Blanche. Taking place in a city close to Gabrielle ...

PFW SS24 Couture: Chanel

Imogen Clark

January 24, 2024

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

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...

Glass indulges in High Fashion High Tea at The Kensington

Sophie Richardson

December 6, 2023

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

FOLLOWING the opening of the V&A's first-ever major exhibition on the life of Coco Chanel, The Kensington has carefully designed a new afternoon tea menu to celebrate the French couturière. The menu pa...

Chanel Beauty honours timelessness with 31 Le Rouge

Imogen Clark

October 9, 2023

Beauty, Feature

IN THE spirit of 31 Rue Cambon, Chanel Beauty has launched a new 12 shade range inspired by the interior, location and heritage of Gabrielle Chanel's apartment in Paris. The collection, 31 Le Rouge, is encased...

Chanel presents the Coco Crush 2023 collection

Zlata Kryudor

January 6, 2023

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

CHANEL is continuing to expand the additions of the iconic Coco Crush collection, and this year, the French Maison is pleased to collaborate with its ambassadors, including actresses Margaret Qualley, Amandla S...

Chanel release summer’s new go to fragrance in the Gabrielle Chanel range

Alicia Tomkinson

July 15, 2022

Beauty, News

CREAMY feminine tuberose, surrounded by the fresh pleasure of crisp white flowers is what you can expect from Chanel’s new scent range, Gabrielle Chanel Parfum and Gabrielle Chanel Essence Twist and Spray. T...

Victoria and Albert museum announces Gabrielle Chanel exhibition in 2023

Ben Sanderson

May 30, 2022

Exhibitions, Fashion, News

THE Victoria and Albert museum have announced an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Gabrielle Chanel next year. The show documents the evolution of her fashion design and the establishment of one of t...

PFW AW22: Chanel

Imogen Clark

March 9, 2022

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

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 debuts their first high jewellery collection in celebration of N°5 perfume

Sophia Ford-Palmer

May 14, 2021

Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches

TO celebrate a century of Chanel’s N°5 perfume, Director of the Chanel Fine Jewellery Creation Studio, Patrice Leguéreau, has created the house’s first high jewellery collection devoted to a perfume. First p...

Chanel presents the Cruise 2021/22 collection

Imogen Clark

May 5, 2021

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

IT WAS her love of the 1960 film Testament of Orpheus together with Gabrielle Chanel’s admiration and close friendship with the director Jean Cocteau that Virginie Viard began to design the Chanel Cruise 2021/2...

Chanel Literary Rendez Vous Camille Laurens Feature

Chanel invites Camille Laurens for a Literary Rendezvous

Imogen Clark

April 8, 2021

Fashion, Feature

“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...

Chanel reinvents the Toi et Moi ring in new Coco Crush, The Encounters campaign

Joshua Hendren

March 24, 2021

Jewellery and Watches, News

THE signature quilted motif of Chanel’s Coco Crush has been synonymous with impeccable heritage jewellery since it was first adopted by Gabrielle Chanel from the equestrian world in 1955. Today, the emblemat...

Chanel celebrates 100 years of N°5 perfume with latest high jewellery collection

Joshua Hendren

March 22, 2021

Fashion, Jewellery and Watches, News

IN 1921, Gabrielle Chanel and French perfumer Ernest Beaux conceived the iconic Chanel N°5 perfume, the first “perfume for women with the scent of a woman”. Now, to celebrate the perfume’s 100th anniversary,...

Chanel celebrates an icon – the 11.12 bag

Imogen Clark

March 19, 2021

Fashion, News

IN FEBRUARY 1955, Gabrielle Chanel designed a bag that has not only never gone out of fashion, it has become an icon in its own right. The 2.55 bag, named after the month and year it was created, was crafted wi...

Inside Chanel explores the fascinating relationship between Gabrielle and music

Imogen Clark

February 2, 2021

Fashion, Music, News

IF FASHION is a zeitgeist, so is music. Both have the ability to capture culture, emotion and the politics of the time and act as an artefact for years to come. In the same manner of how perfume presents dimens...

Chanel launches Le Lion de Chanel fragrance

Joshua Hendren

January 12, 2021

Beauty, Fragrance Picks, News

DELVING into Gabrielle Chanel’s deep fascination with astrology, the lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac and the late designer’s totem animal, is the emblem for the new Le Lion de Chanel fragrance. Le Lion ...

Haute Couture AW20: Chanel

Rhiannon Jenkins

July 7, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

CHANEL’s Virginie Viard has opted for opulence this season – drawing inspiration from her predecessor and ultimate aesthete, Karl Lagerfeld. While the Maison’s SS20 Haute Couture collection took us on a bucolic...

Chanel unveils latest high jewellery collection Tweed de Chanel

Cara Jenkins

January 31, 2020

Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches

CHANEL begins a new chapter of creativity and innovation in the history of tweed, presenting a collection composed of Gabrielle Chanel’s favourite fabric embellished in precious stones and diamonds. A perenn...

Chanel showcases their 2019/2020 Cruise Collection

Alicia Pountney

May 7, 2019

Fashion, News

AS THE Nave of the Grand Palais was transformed into a Parisian train station, its guests were whisked away on an imaginary journey. Instigator and author of this travel story was Virginie Viard w...

Chanel debuts Prix des Métiers D’Art at the 34th annual International Festival of Fashion

Alicia Pountney

May 3, 2019

Fashion, News

“FOR I want to be part of what happens” Mademoiselle Chanel liked to say, and with this in mind Chanel returned to the 34th annual International Festival of Fashion, bringing with it the newly created Prix des ...

Celebrities participate in Chanel’s 3.55 Podcast in Cannes

Olga Kuznietsova

May 17, 2018

Fashion, News

ONE step aside from the hustle and bustle of the red carpet, actress and Chanel ambassador, Anna Mouglalis, meets some of the brightest personalities in the world of cinema to talk about creativity, boldness an...

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