As we begin to navigate the challenges of real-world dressing once again, Virginie Viard’s Cruise 2021/22 collection for Chanel proposed a simple formula for nailing Parisian chic: wear anything you like, provided it’s black or white. Set against the vast, ghostly white limestone backdrop of the Carrières de Lumières (Quarries of Light) in Les Baux-de-Provence, the monochrome Chanel Cruise 21/22 show – a digital event – was inspired by brand.
Chanel stages wedding themed haute couture SS21 show at Paris’ Grand Palais Chloe Street
Most people planning a spring 2021 wedding will have been forced to cancel their plans, but not Chanel.
Today the brand unveiled a celebratory spring/summer 2021 Haute Couture collection via a runway show at the glass-domed nave of Paris’ Grand Palais.
The show took place in a flower-strewn round space, surrounded with chairs and flower arches, and was captured on video by Dutch photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer Anton Corbijn. I knew… that we would have to invent something else, so I came up with the idea of a small cortege that would come down the stairs of the Grand Palais and pass beneath arches of flowers. Like a family celebration, a wedding…” Chanel’s creative director Virginie Viard explained in the show notes.