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Margot Robbie, Oprah watch Blazy transform Chanel with color and craft

Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy is still building

The Independent UK

‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered library

The Guardian - UK

Chanel's new showman stages an ode to NYC with star-packed runway show on a real subway platform

Designer Matthieu Blazy has taken Chanel's fashions underground, with a runway show on a New York City subway platform

The Independent UK

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Kristen Stewart says she’s ‘so angry’ while urging solidarity and honesty in emotional speech

Actor spoken at the Academy Women’s Luncheon, urging women in film to reject tokenism and create their own opportunities

The Independent UK

Women Designers 'Not Getting The Breaks' Despite Global Fashion Shake-up

In fashion at the moment, as seen on catwalks: frills, corsets, big shoulder pads, and "naked dresses".

International Business Times

Showmanship returns at Chanel as designer Blazy debuts under a sky of planets

At Paris Fashion Week, Chanel's creative director Matthieu Blazy opened the season’s most anticipated debut beneath colossal celestial bodies — Saturn with its rings, a full solar system suspended above a jet-black, mirror-bright runway — staking a claim for theater from the first second

The Independent UK

Haute Couture Week A/W 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* team

From 7-9 July, Haute Couture Week A/W 2025 arrives in Paris. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors

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The best shows of Haute Couture Week A/W 2025

From Chanel’s trip to the great outdoors, to an Armani Privé collection that was rooted in the colour black

Wallpaper

45 Historical Figures Who Were Way Hotter Than You’d Expect

Which one of these throwback photos surprised you the most?

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Coco Chanel's decadent 1950s Paris living room is a jewel box of baroque style – it's a testament to the ageless power of French design

The fashion designer's 31 Rue Cambon apartment is full of ornate gilded furniture and crystal lighting, highlighting the country's stunning design history

Homes & Gardens

Chanel and Miu Miu close Paris Fashion Week with bows and quirks galore

The chicest of the ‘Big 4’ fashion weeks comes to an end.

The Independent UK

A century of chic: the best Chanel-style jackets to rival the real thing

The boucle jacket is as stylish today as when it was first launched. To help you get the look without the high price, we’ve rounded up top high-street alternatives

The Guardian - UK

Karl Lagerfeld's clothes and personal items sell for €1.1 million

Karl Lagerfeld's belongings have fetched just over one million euros at auction.

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Chanel stuns with color, and Kylie Jenner, in Paris couture show

Snaking traffic, screaming crowds, and a crush of photographers descended on the Grand Palais on Tuesday as Chanel unveiled its latest show before Matthieu Blazy’s debut as creative director in fall

The Independent UK

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Meet the new Karl Lagerfeld: Who is Mattieu Blazy, Chanel's new designer?

It was the £16 billion role every designer wanted — and 40-year-old Mattieu Blazy has won the race

The Independent UK

Chanel appoints designer Matthieu Blazy as new artistic director

One of the most prestigious roles in global fashion has just been filled, as Chanel announced Matthieu Blazy as its new artistic director

The Independent UK

Keynote Selena Gomez spotlights prioritizing mental health during Academy Women's Luncheon

While surveying a room packed with Hollywood’s most influential figures, “Emilia Pérez” star Selena Gomez took center stage to spotlight a critical issue: Prioritizing mental health and supporting underserved communities often left behind in the conversation

Wallpaper

Chanel heads to Hangzhou, China for a poetic Métiers d’Art 2025 show

This evening in China (3 December 2024), Chanel travelled to Hangzhou’s much-mythologised West Lake, a Unesco World Heritage site, for a show that highlighted the extraordinary craft of the house’s artisans

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Best women's trouser suits and tailored ladies' co-ords of 2024

The sartorial embodiment of “power dressing”

Wallpaper

What happens when a Chanel watch becomes a sound machine?

Meet the Chanel Première Sound – an adaptable necklace with a watch and removable earphones

Wallpaper

From gem-set crucifixes, to ‘coffin' diamonds, these Gothic jewellery designs are eerie fables all their own

The resurrection of ancient crafts with a 21st-century point of view signals a new wave in Modern Gothic jewellery

Evening Standard

Chanel to sponsor The Boat Race from next year in long-term partnership

The deal will see the race renamed The Chanel J12 Boat Race and will also see the brand become its official timekeeper

The Independent UK

Chanel show wrestles with designer void. Actor Lupita Nyong'o talks about diversity in fashion

Chanel finds itself at a crossroads following Virginie Viard’s abrupt departure, as a giant empty cage at its Grand Palais show symbolizes the current creative void

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France’s fashionable history strikes a pose for European Heritage Days

The annual European Heritage Days are an opportunity for the public to visit monuments and sites that are usually off limits. Among the participants this year are several luxury fashion houses, which are set to reveal some of the secrets of one of France’s most iconic industries.

The Conversation

Love the balletcore trend? This is the fashion history that inspired it – from Chanel to Amy Winehouse

Balletcore, the fashion trend inspired by the costumes of traditional ballet performers, has been popular since 2022, inspired by the spring/summer runway collections of designers such as Molly Goddard and Simone Rocha. The trend is inspired by the practical, functional clothing worn in a ballerina’s daily practice – part of…

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