Under the Parisian grey sky, the spirit of Gabrielle Chanel, as present as always in any of the house shows, filled the Grand Palais with colour in every shape and form. With a collection in charge of the design team as we eagerly await Matthieu Blazy's debut during the second half of this year, the magnificent scenography and the undeniable Chanel aura, very evidently present in every single look, made this show feel like a perfect transition between two eras. The collection had everything we expect from Chanel Haute Couture: a display of savoir-faire, a stellar use of fabrics, and the classic silhouettes they have us used to, with the subtle touch of contemporary that makes the brand as loved as they are by the XXI century Chanel wearer.
We will never get used to how magical Chanel Couture shows are under the transparent and imposing structure of the Grand Palais. On this occasion the scenery was kept to a minimum, not meaning it was any less impressive. A simple but key element of the house, the two C’s that made up the iconic logo designed by Coco Chanel in 1925, jumped from the delicate jewellery or the famous bags to become the path where the models walked this season, thanks to the imagination of scenographer and designer Willo Perron. A perfectly white canvas in which every piece worn by the models was like a paintbrush that completed the chromatic palette. 
Being a collection entirely designed by the in-house team, it is expected that most of the pieces don't show an extreme sense of innovation or edge, but rather a safe but sound approach to key codes and elements of the brand’s history, a classical but yet somehow new take on the very loved and successful grails that make the Chanel Haute Couture collection one of the most important of the season. Therefore, the sheer dresses, the tweed suits, the bows, the florals, and the lace are nothing crazily new but are a reminiscent and nostalgic reminder that hits in the atemporal to make us feel like watching a show that could easily be from either a decade or a year ago, and since Chanel has always been a standard of craft and couture, the result can be nothing but good. 
The core of the collection, the colour, was undoubtedly the element that added a unique touch to every single look, with a vast palette that ranged from soft pastels to bright tones, including, of course, the absence of colour, better known as white, and the absence of light, better known as black. The progression of the garments follows a complete cycle of day to night, and the intensity of them is not only manifested in the shades of each fabric but also in the way they are represented in them. Some of the fabrics are in solid colours, while others are a blend of many of them, with subtle trompe l’oeils, painted lace, and embroidered chiffon enhanced with halos of colour that give the perfect illusion of tweed, creating degrade visions or floral-like patterns, a result of the experimentation and the unlimited scope for creation the house granted their team.
The front row and their styling, probably the most typical Chanel looks we’ve seen in the brand ambassadors in a while, also made this feel like we’re slowly returning into what we used to define as Chanel. Going back to the nostalgia aspect of it all, some of the links that happened during this show between brand ambassadors and friends of the house can be directly paired with pictures of the same invitees from a decade ago, showing not only the loyalty to the house but also the evolution of times and the consistency of Chanel in seamlessly adapting to them. 
The quintessential Chanel figures like Charlotte Casiraghi, Caroline de Maigret, or Ines de la Fressange sat next to the new generation of Chanel girls like Dua Lipa, Laufey, Jennie, or even Kylie Jenner—unexpected but understandable. The Korean icon and brand ambassador G-Dragon was also in the front row after many years of absence from the house shows, a sight that only increased that sense of going back to the golden times of a house that in just a few months will start a new era.
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