Virginie Viard, who was the late Karl Lagerfeld’s “right and left hand” for more than 30 years, is stepping out from the legendary designer’s formidable shadow to take over as Chanel’s creative director. Chanel announced…
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Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld dies at 85
Karl Lagerfeld, who passed away on Tuesday at a hospital outside Paris, enjoyed the stature of a god among mortals in the world of fashion, where he stayed on top for well over half of…
Pharrell Williams designing capsule collection for Chanel
Pharrell Williams has designed a capsule collection for Chanel, which will debut on March 29. The ‘Happy’ hitmaker has announced he is collaborating with the luxurious fashion brand and the new collection will be “coming…
Lagerfeld reaches for immortality with Chanel Paris show
Legendary designer and bibliophile Karl Lagerfeld made a pitch for immortality Tuesday by setting his very Parisian Chanel haute couture show in front of the Academie Francaise. The venerable institution, whose members are known as…
Chanel goes girly with pretty-in-pink walk in the park
Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld dived into the brand’s archives for his pretty-in-pink haute couture Paris show Tuesday, giving its founder Coco Chanel’s classics an intensely girly twist. Chanel liberated women from their Edwardian corsets a…
Chanel goes aquatic with millennial nymphs in PVC waders
Karl Lagerfeld built a huge waterfall and flooded the vast Grand Palais for his spectacular Chanel show Tuesday on the final day of Paris Fashion Week. The veteran designer sent out an army of “water…
Chanel puts on the Ritz at Paris fashion show
The legendary French fashion label Chanel paid hommage to its founder Coco Chanel Tuesday with a show at the Ritz in Paris. Pillbox hats with netted veils, long woolly jumpers and scarves, tweed suits glittering…
Chanel gives young pretenders a lesson in haute couture
Chanel pulled the curtain back on its Paris haute couture show Tuesday to reveal the secret life of its studios, where a small army of tailors, embroiderers and plumers turn out some of the world’s…
Willow Smith named as Chanel ambassador
Willow Smith has been named as a Chanel ambassador, following in the footsteps of Lily-Rose Depp, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart. The 15-year-old singer – who sat in the front row at the French fashion…
1980s glam makes a Paris comeback as Chanel stays classy
It was back to the future on the Paris catwalks Tuesday as Chanel cleverly tweaked its back catalogue only for Saint Laurent to revive a look that some thought best forgotten. In what could be…