PFW AW24: Chanel
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...
PFW SS24 Couture: Chanel
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 Métiers d’art saw make-up inspired by Manchester’s sixties music scene
CHANEL hosted their 2023/24 Métiers d’art collection in Manchester inspired by the brilliant colours founder Gabrielle Chanel brought to her tweeds.
The fashion house's current creative director, Virginie ...
Glass goes backstage at Chanel’s SS24 show to discover the beauty secrets
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...
PFW SS24: Chanel
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...
PFW AW23 Couture: Chanel
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...
PFW AW23: Chanel
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...
PFW SS23: Chanel Haute Couture
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...
Chanel travels to Dakar to present its Métiers d’art 2023 collection
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...
PFW SS23: Chanel
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...
Chanel presents Cruise 2022/23 collection in Monte Carlo
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...
PFW AW22: Chanel
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...
PFW SS22 Haute Couture: Chanel
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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Glass reviews Chanel’s Métiers d’art 2021/22 collection
WHEN approaching the 2021/22 Métiers d'art collection, Virginie Viard decided to look beyond the interlocking C’s and into the savoir-faire of the seven artisans who play a part in creating the Chanel woman.
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PFW SS22: Chanel
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...
PFW AW21 Couture: Chanel
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...
Chanel invites Camille Laurens for a Literary Rendezvous
“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...
Glass looks back at the best moments of AW21
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...
Glass takes a look at the beauty backstage of Chanel’s AW21 show
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...
PFW AW21: Chanel
INSIDE the Parisian club Castel, where the saying “dress to impress” is mandatory for entry, Virginie Viard takes us dancing for Chanel’s autumn-winter 2021 collection. Rewinding back not only to a time where s...
The Glass Archival Fashion Collectors series – Zing: Chanel jackets
FOR THE Glass Archival Fashion Collectors series, we spoke to some of the most influential collectors from across the world to hear more about how they started their collection, the purpose behind it, and their...