Chanel devoted its total new assortment to tweed

Chanel’s Autumn/Winter 2022 Paris Style Week present devoted its total assortment to tweed.

The daring transfer was a return to the French vogue home’s origins and a nod to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s signature tweed cardigan fits from the Nineteen Fifties and the material now synonymous with the luxurious label.

On the Grand Palais Ephemere on Tuesday, fashions stepped out in colors resembling the precise River Tweed that flows throughout the Borders area in Scotland and northern England that gave the historic material its title.

Signature home skirt fits and wrapped-up woollen kinds got here in muted tones of pinks, burgundies, blues and purples.

For Virginie Viard, Chanel’s inventive director, the present acted as a “tribute” to Chanel and her life.

“Devoting the whole assortment to tweed is a tribute,” she mentioned in an announcement.

“We adopted the footsteps of Gabrielle Chanel alongside the River Tweed, to think about tweeds within the colors of this panorama.”

Friends, together with former world primary tennis participant Venus Williams, sat on tweed-upholstered seats, clutching invitations fabricated from matching pink materials.

The heritage material connects Chanel to Scotland, the place she lived and stayed, and “would collect ferns and bouquets of flowers to encourage the native artisans for the tones she wished.”

It was right here the place she borrowed the tweed jackets of her lover, the Duke of Westminster, accessorised with strings of pearls, and single-handedly remodeled girls’s vogue endlessly.

Viard took over the reins of the luxurious model following the demise of Chanel’s earlier inventive director Karl Lagerfeld in February 2019.

Dubbed Lagerfeld’s “right-hand girl” the 60-year-old Frenchwoman, who beforehand held the position of vogue creation studio director on the French vogue home, was rapidly named his successor.

Viard had been by Lagerfeld’s facet at Chanel for greater than three many years, and first joined the luxurious label in 1987 as an intern, 4 years after Lagerfeld.

When requested by an interviewer whether or not the spirit of “Coco” Chanel lingered over the style home, she replied: “Sure, it’s like somebody we knew properly. Her aura remains to be hanging concerning the firm.”