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

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - Wedding party in the GrandPalais in Paris, filled with flower petals on the floor and floral circles all around the catwalk, for the fashion show of Chanel's SS 2021 haute couture collection, broadcast online in a video directed by Anton Corbijn. The creative director of the French maison Virginie Viard has entrusted the Dutch photographer, director and graphic designer with the production of a series of photographs and teasers in the Haute Coutured ateliers of the maison on rue Cambon that preceded the fashion show, and the pain of the show. A 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 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 got the idea of ​​a small procession that would descend the stairs of the Grand Palais and pass under arches of flowers. Like a family party, a wedding" says Virginie Viard explaining the mood of the collection. So the guests and the bridesmaids of the wedding court wear floral lace flounced dresses, dresses with very New Look corolla skirts, bouclèlaminated jackets and embroidered vests over soft trousers. The colors are white, black, beige and pink. Flat two-tone shoes, flower crowns in her hair. (HANDLE).