Big hats are in, according to Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week show.
This wasn’t the only bit of interesting headgear on the runway – models also wore tartan flat caps.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid – a regular face on the Chanel runway – was one of the few models who wasn’t wearing a hat.
While the brand’s creative director, Virginie Viard, who took over from Karl Lagerfeld after his death in 2019, experimented with hats on the runway, the rest of the collection was business as usual.
Layers of statement gold jewellery has long been a hallmark of the label – memorably when Christy Turlington walked the runway for the spring/summer 1992 couture collection, wearing a black gown and plenty of gold chains, like a more formal version of Hadid’s look.
Models walked down a runway made of dark wooden boards, which was said to be inspired by the wooden boardwalk of Deauville, a seaside resort in Normandy.
Since then, seaside references inspired by the town have come up time and time again, notably in Karl Lagerfeld’s autumn/winter 1998 collection.
The show opened with a short black and white film starring Penelope Cruz and Brad Pitt – they’re seen driving in a car, ordering at a restaurant and walking along the seaside, with a Chanel quilted handbag in full view for most of the clip.
Cruz has been a Chanel ambassador since 2018 – memorably wearing a haute couture bridal-style gown from the label to the 2023 Met Gala. She was front row for the Paris Fashion Week show, wearing a shiny black leather-look skirt suit with a pale yellow jumper underneath and a white statement collar.
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The Politician actor Zoey Deutch debuted a new cropped blonde hairdo to attend the show, wearing a grey boucle belted mini dress with long sleeves and a pink camellia brooch.
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While fellow actor Zazie Beetz, who’s known for her role in Atlanta, wore a knitted red strapless dress with an oversized black, white and red cardigan.