and merge streetwear with couture. She has, quite simply, kept the legacy of Karl Lagerfeld's vision rigidly intact.
The home to the Chanel shows, guests gathered inside the Grand Palais, this time perched amongst tiered sculptures that, from above, stood like the overlapping circles of a geographic map seperated by a frosted mirror catwalk, doused in fog. It was, as Chanel sets go, moderately paired down, compared to the terracotta villa of SS19 Haute Couture and AW19's Winter Wonderland. The austere, modernist setting was minimalist in its approach, honing in the attention toward the clothes.
Bohemian off-shoulder dresses in midnight velvet took precedence alongside ruffled pirate shirts tucked into unbuttoned leather trousers, allowing the leg to peep, with iterations of the House's classics from signature chain belts, Camelia rosettes, crucifix medallions and a knot of pearls gathered around the neck. Donning a vampish Victorian black dress,