The Tweed River Runs Through Chanel RTW Fall Winter 2022/2023

On the final day of Paris Trend Week, below the Grand Palais Éphémère, CHANEL introduced its Fall-Winter 2022/23 Ready-to-Wear collection, a wonderful ode to tweed. The day earlier than, probably the most lovely invitation of the style sphere and the teaser of the present shot by Dutch duo photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin had already given the tone.

Then, comes the decor of the present: tweed is in all places and in each coloration from mild brown to black or white on tweed-upholstered seats and on the partitions, a contact of pop coloration on the Chanel initials. Within the center, the runway is mild inexperienced as a reference to the River Tweed in Scotland.

The river flows east throughout the Scottish Borders into Northern England.

“We adopted the footsteps of Gabrielle Chanel alongside the River Tweed, to think about tweeds within the colors of this panorama” mentioned Virginie Viard. Gabrielle Chanel found tweed within the early Twenties when she borrowed the outsized jackets of her lover, Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster. “There’s nothing sexier than sporting the garments of the particular person you’re keen on,” added Virginie Viard.

CHANEL made tweed female and have become the everlasting signature of the Home with its iconic tweed swimsuit launched in 1954. Gabrielle Chanel beloved the Scottish countryside and through her lengthy walks there, she gathered flowers and inexperienced crops as a reference to the colour tones and materials she wished from the native Harris Tweed weavers.

On Tuesday March 8, the present was very emotional and so was the music. Fashions walked via the Beatles’ music “A day within the life” and its first sentence “I learn the information right now, oh Boy”, a reminder of the dramatic present scenario. Chanel, that day, as all the time, supplied a parenthesis of enchantment on this world.

Virginie Viard brings “ce je ne sais quoi” of French magnificence. The silhouettes from the Chanel Fall Winter Assortment provide a spectrum of feminity from a boyish tweed swimsuit with contrasted pockets, worn with rubber Wellington boots, embellished with a double C. The it boot of the following Fall season.

Within the assortment, Artistic Director Virginie Viard used the complete vary of shades from psychedelic pinks, purples, greens to heather tones for winter walks within the countryside, the colour palettes of a misty morning.

There’s a graphic Prince of Wales examine tweed jacket with a standing collar, fluid shimmering lamé trousers, a brief costume embroidered with constellations of large sequins worn with lengthy socks and pointed pumps with mini stiletto heels in patent leather-based. Fashions stroll via the soundtrack Spencer by Johnny Greenwood, one of many songs of the biopic on Princess Diana. There may be an aristocratic British spirit operating via the gathering, it’s moody however so glamorous.

Tweed is an angle, tweed is a valuable texture and the epitome of Chanel. A Chanel present filled with deep feelings.