Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Chanel’s optimistic Paris Fashion Week runway show, where Blackpink’s Jennie, Spencer star Kristen Stewart and Johnny Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose Depp all wanted to be seen
- Virginie Viard’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear presentation took place by the Eiffel Tower, as the Grand Palais was being renovated for the 2024 Paris Olympics
- Models strutted in swimwear-inspired looks like monochrome bikinis bedecked with accessories, as photographers milled about a red carpet to fit the ‘lens’ theme
Was Chanel’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection, presented at Paris Fashion Week on October 5, all about optimism? Photo: EPA-EFE
Chanel brought Paris Fashion Week to its final day with a runway show that illustrated how designers and the people they dress want to look to the future with optimism.
It is said that fashion is a mirror of our times – and the spring/summer collections shown here were sexy, vibrant and joyful despite, or perhaps because of, the coronavirus pandemic.
A model presents a creation for Chanel during the women’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, as part of Paris Fashion Week, on October 5. Photo: AFP
A model presents a creation for Chanel during the women’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, as part of Paris Fashion Week, on October 5. Photo: AFP
The runway show was staged before a pared-down audience on Tuesday, October 5, in an annex by the Eiffel Tower, but the location had nothing to do with the pandemic. The normal venue, the Grand Palais, is being renovated for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Lily-Rose Depp attends the Chanel spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented in Paris, on October 5. Photo: Invision/AP
American actress Kristen Stewart rocked up late to the Parisian stalwart’s show wearing a pink Chanel skirt suit. French-American model-actress Lily-Rose Depp and Blackpink’s Jennie also showed up for Chanel.
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
Appropriately enough for a paparazzi-themed show, a group of frenzied minders rushed Stewart in late to take her seat. Guests had to look twice to see who the tardy invitee was because the Twilight star looked almost unrecognisable. The actress, a Chanel ambassador, sported a chic blond beehive for her latest role as Princess Diana in Spencer, which was partly filmed in Paris and set for a November release.
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
Designer Virginie Viard was in a raunchy mood for spring. The theme was the lens, and real photographers, including some from Associated Press, huddled around a red carpet podium freestyle instead of lining up in their normal scrum. Models posed theatrically, with inches of leg and midriff exposed. The scene prompted chuckles from Depp.
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: Xinhua
The collection was all about swimwear. Sporty monochrome bikinis were worn with cascading silver necklaces, pendants and talismans. Bold black-white contrasts and big statement buttons offered a faint whiff of the 1980s.
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
A model presents a creation for Chanel during the women’s spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, as part of Paris Fashion Week, on October 5. Photo: AFP
Chanel’s bread-and-butter skirt suit was colourfully jazzed up with stripes and patterns as if lifted straight from a Saint Tropez bikini. Yet this season, sadly, Viard did not seem to push the creative envelope.
Models present creations from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
A model presents a creation from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection by French designer Virginie Viard for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on October 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
Models wear creations for the Chanel spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented on October 5, in Paris. Photo: AP Photo
The mood of beach-going and optimism at a time when the pandemic still has limited exotic holidays could be borne of a desire to project hope that the freedom to travel will soon return. Or was it about giving guests a chance to dream?