Chanel shows at the Grand Palais, it's a family wedding party - Lifestyle

Wedding party in the Grand Palais in Paris, filled with flower petals on the floor and floral arches all around the catwalk, for Chanel's SS 2021 haute couture collection show, broadcast online in a video directed by Anton Corbijn. The creative director of the French fashion house Virginie Viard has entrusted the Dutch photographer, director and graphic designer with the production of a series of photographs and teasers in the Haute Couture ateliers of the fashion house on rue Cambon that preceded the fashion show, and directing the show. A fashion show in the absence of the usual large audience of press, customers and characters, but with the sole presence, among the empty chairs, of the Chanel testimonials of the last few years: Princess Charlotte Casiraghi, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Vanessa Paradis and Lily- Rose Depp. "I knew that we could not organize a great show, that we would have to invent something else, so I came up with the idea of ​​a small procession that would descend the stairs of the Grand Palais and pass under arches of flowers. family, a wedding "says Virginie Viard explaining the mood of the collection. "I love big family reunions, when generations come together. It's so hot. There's this spirit in Chanel today. Because Chanel is like family too." A spirit that also celebrates the contemporary reopening of the haute couture salons on rue Cambon, in Paris, redecorated by Jacques Grange and inspired by the very Deco charm of the original lounges imagined by Gabrielle Chanel, complete with Coromandel screens and "sheaf of wheat" tables "by Goossens. At the foot of the mythical staircase shrouded in mirrors "I wanted to bring together the models for family photos, such as those you can see in the photo albums," says Viard. So the guests and the bridesmaids of the wedding procession wear floral lace flounced dresses, dresses with very New Look corolla skirts, laminated bouclé jackets and embroidered vests over soft trousers. The colors are white, black, beige and pink. Flat two-tone shoes, flower crowns in her hair. The idea of ​​the wedding party and prom is embodied by the shifting petticoats, the flouncy crepe georgette flounces on the pale pink dress, accompanied by a ruffled bolero, and two-tone Mary-Jane with double strap in the style of the shoes worn by tango dancers, or with wedge ankle boots decorated with a subtle golden grid similar to a quilt. A long detachable skirt in white daisy lace, which frees the legs, is worn open over a dress of the same lace with integrated cape. The Maisons d'art, partner of Chanel, participated in the thirty-two looks of the collection. Atelier Montex created the embroidered macramé of a long dress in pearl gray tulle, while delicate feathers from the Maison Lemarié embellish the organza flounces of a black tweed sheath dress. In the finale, the bride arrives on the back of a real horse led by her "groom" from the ground. It could be the same bride in a photo from the 1920s, with her tulle veil, her long dress in ecru satin crepe with tail embroidered by Lesage with butterflies of rhinestones and pearls. (HANDLE).