A romantic wind blows through winter Chanel

Chabadabada… On the giant screen where the beach horizon stretches, a reboot of the movie appears Man and woman By Claude Lelouch. To embody the cult couple, no less than Penelope Cruz and Brad Pitt, two world stars who play eternal lovers on the screen for the guests of the fall-winter 2024-2025 show.

Deauville. The famous beach resort where it all began for Gabrielle Chanel. For this fall-winter 2024-2025 fashion show, artistic director Virginie Viard chooses to return to the origins of Chanel style in the seaside town where Gabrielle Chanel opened her first fashion boutique, rue Gontaut Biron, in 1913. Already famous for it. A hat boutique that opened in 1910 on rue Cambon in Paris, the famous designer liberated women in Deauville, freeing them from the shackles of the Belle Époque and inventing sporty fashion for them. Here, in this epicenter of elegance, where good society comes to show off, she breaks the codes by wearing an ecru woolen jacket, wearing a soft skirt, a manly suit… She imagines her style. The look is powerful and the line recommended.

A love letter

On the catwalk, as the silhouettes parade, we see the beauty being liberated. First in an oversized hat adorned with a bejeweled camellia, a long scarf that dances down the back and culottes, she lets loose with wedge sock boots, wears a low-waisted belt over her viddy coat, mixes her Irish sweater with knitwear. skirt and a fresh creamy tweed jacket, suggesting the sheerness of a very long white silk negligee.

Fast forward from 1913 to the Roaring 20s, the style has soared to 2024: a denim jacket over a coral skirt, a petite jacket and a classic bag with a tassel, black leather pants and wine-colored accessories… Chanel charm is there, modern and modern. very elegant when they arrive in a line of evening silhouettes in chiffon, gold and sequins. Gabrielle Chanel would not deny this love letter to her beloved city of Calvados.