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End clap for Fashion Week with a Chanel show as we like

3/8/2022, 8:34:05 PM


For the last day of this Fashion Week like no other, Virginie Viard touched our hearts with a fantastic fashion show of knits and tweeds, inhabited by the memory of Stella Tennant.

When, in the middle of the parade, the first words of

A Day in the Life

ring out

("I read the news today, oh boy"),

facing these women in tweed jackets and skirts with a sixties

mood

, emotion grips us .

Because the words of Lennon and McCartney are sad and refer to current events, because Chanel's daughters are beautiful and refer to a universal fashion story...

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This is how on Tuesday morning, the last day of this Fashion Week hit by the war in Ukraine, at the ephemeral Grand Palais flows the river Tweed.

A patchwork of this Scottish carded wool delimits the banks (where the guests are installed) and the curved riverbed acting as a podium.

“I was thinking of Coco Chanel spending time in Scotland with the Duke of Westminster

, explained artistic director Virginie Viard, the day before in the bustling rue Cambon studio.

On her walks in the Highlands, she picked up flowers, ferns, little things from the ground and she...

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