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rights reserved. 2025 The Guardian https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png https://www.theguardian.com Chanel takes a cruise around Lake Como

with glamour fit for a grand hotel https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/apr/29/chanel-takes-a-cruise-around-lake-como-with-glamour-fit-for-a-grand-hotel <p>Show dips into

lucrative holiday market with butter-yellow, lilac and gold lamé outfits reflecting beauty of the backdrop</p><p>Chanel has a fresh-faced, avant garde new designer but it still

stands for classic glamour. This was the loud and clear messaging at the first Chanel show since Matthieu Blazy took up his role. The show was held at Villa d'Este, the Lake Como palace

hotel where Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich holidayed and which Alfred Hitchcock, who filmed The Pleasure Garden there, pronounced the most beautiful place on

earth.</p><p>The location, booked a year in advance, provided the theme: life in a grand hotel. Think White Lotus on Lake Como, art directed by Slim Aarons. First on to the

pebbled catwalk weaving through the hotel's terrace was a white bathrobe-style coat. Then there were capri pants in the butter yellow of the hotel parasols, and a lilac tweed suit to

match the wisteria trailing overhead. Models swung tote bags big enough for pool towels, while gold lamé cover-ups glinted as dazzling as sun on the lake.</p> <a

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Rellandini/AFP/Getty Images Jess Cartner-Morley 2025-04-29T18:35:17Z High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/paper-receipt-chemical-bisphenol-s <p>Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California's safety

rule, research finds</p><ul><li><strong><a

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Your Kitchen newsletter</a></strong></li></ul><p>Paper receipts from major retailers in the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can

cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California's safety threshold, new research has found.</p><p>The findings are being used as evidence

in <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/prop65/notices/2025-00411.pdf">legal action</a> aimed at pressuring retailers to stop using receipt paper treated with

bisphenol S, or BPS, which is <a

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Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Tom Perkins 2025-04-14T10:00:43Z Tennis courts, tailoring and pole dancers: Paris fashion week the key

autumn/winter 2025 collections — in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2025/mar/13/tennis-courts-tailoring-and-pole-dancers-paris-fashion-week-the-key-autumnwinter-2025-collections-in-pictures <p>A season of

debuts, intimate shows and memorable moments in the French capital </p> <a

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suits Women's dresses Women's coats and jackets Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:00:55 GMT

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White/Getty Images Photograph: Peter White/Getty Images Jo Jones and Helen Seamons 2025-03-13T07:00:55Z A century of chic: the best Chanel-style jackets to rival the real thing

https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/mar/11/best-chanel-style-jacket <p>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</p><p>• <strong><a

href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/24/the-ultimate-capsule-wardrobe-the-only-20-items-youll-ever-really-need">The ultimate capsule wardrobe: the

only 20 items you'll ever really need</a></strong></p><p>This year marks 100 years since Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel first unveiled what would go on to

become one of the brand's most coveted pieces: a tweed jacket. Or, as my colleague Jess Cartner-Morley called it last month, the <a

href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/feb/14/comfy-alpha-and-a-little-bit-french-the-return-of-the-little-boxy-jacket">Little Boxy

Jacket</a><strong>.</strong> Soft and untailored, Chanel's original boucle jackets were a rejection of the corseted silhouettes that were fashionable at the time. A

century later, the brand continues to riff on the style – most recently with pastel-coloured and pearl-adorned versions down its couture catwalk.</p><p>However, with prices

starting from £2,000, they are a wardrobe staple most of us can only dream of. However, there is some good news: this <a

href="https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/apr/25/womens-spring-wardrobe-essentials-uk">spring</a>, the high street has several iterations that could

<em>almost</em> be the real thing, at more affordable prices. Here is my pick of the best.</p> <a

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Wilkinson 2025-03-11T15:00:49Z Supersized pearls and crystal bows: Chanel lures celebrity crowd to Paris

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/mar/11/supersized-pearls-crystal-bows-chanel-louis-vuitton-paris-fashion-week <p>Fashion week also brings Louis Vuitton showcasing cinematic

romance of train travel</p><p>Chanel came gift-wrapped in black ribbon at Paris fashion week. The ribbon was made of steel, not silk. It was the width of a city street and 368

metres long, soaring skywards beside the long catwalk like very pretty scaffolding. The message: the house of Chanel is as tough as it is chic.</p><p>New designer Matthieu Blazy

is expected to take up his role next month, by which time Chanel will have been without a creative lead for almost a year. This design vacuum poses a challenge for the house, but Chanel

still has a star designer – albeit one who has been dead for 54 years.</p> <a

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Nicholson/REX/Shutterstock Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris 2025-03-11T13:32:40Z Russians hoping for peace talks and 'universal joy' – but will western brands return?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/russians-hoping-for-peace-talks-and-universal-joy-but-will-western-brands-return <p>Following last week's US-Russia talks, the mood

in Moscow suggests many are beginning to think about what a post-war reality might look like</p><p>After three years of war and western isolation, Russians are starting to hope

that the recent flurry of US-Russia diplomacy could offer a path to peace in Ukraine – and restore the sense of normality lost when their leader sent tanks across the Ukrainian

border.</p><p>Last Tuesday's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/us-russia-ukraine-talks-riyadh-saudi-arabia">US-Russia talks</a> in

Saudi Arabia have sent the country's propagandists and political establishment into euphoria, celebrating what they see as a real chance of achieving Russia's goals in the war at

the expense of Ukraine and its European allies, which have been sidelined from discussing the future of the invaded country.</p> <a

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Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskyy Europe World news Business Foreign policy Apple McDonald's Nike Ikea Chanel Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:00:36 GMT

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Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Pjotr Sauer 2025-02-23T12:00:36Z Comfy, alpha and a little bit French: the return of the Little Boxy Jacket | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/feb/14/comfy-alpha-and-a-little-bit-french-the-return-of-the-little-boxy-jacket <p>You don't need to fork out for the OG Chanel version to

achieve the classic, chic look – as long as you keep an eye on the details</p><p>The classics are the classics for a reason, and the Little Boxy Jacket is a classic. You know

the one I mean. A soft, round-necked jacket that falls in a straight line, lopped off neatly without hugging the waist. The shoulder line is&nbsp;natural, no significant padding. Sleeves

are slim and straight. It is loose enough to have a little swing, but it doesn't flop or trail. This is the jacket equivalent of a classic bob haircut: chic, effortless polish, vaguely

French.</p><p>The LBJ never really goes away, but in 2025 it is going to be everywhere. Coco Chanel put this shape on the map a century ago. Chanel is in the spotlight this

year, with a new designer in Matthieu Blazy, and when fashion is talking about Chanel, then the LBJ is naturally front of mind. You don't need me to tell you that Chanel is the gold

standard here. A real Chanel, whether vintage or new, will cost about the same as a secondhand car. It will hold its value much better than a car, and I&nbsp;would argue it could be as

useful as one, but I get that not everyone would see it that way – and given the price this is a purely academic argument, really. Anyway, this look has&nbsp;trickled down to every price

point. The&nbsp;spiritual home of the LBJ will always be Chanel, but it is now as native to the high street as a Starbucks latte.</p> <a

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Newby/The Guardian Photograph: David Newby/The Guardian Jess Cartner-Morley 2025-02-14T08:00:04Z My week with a man bag: am I cool enough for winter's hottest trend?

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/jan/30/my-week-with-a-man-bag-am-i-cool-enough-for-winters-hottest-trend <p>Timothée Chalamet, Pharrell Williams and Jacob Elordi have no

qualms about using one. But can our writer carry it off?</p><p>The woman at the veg shop is admiring my new ivory padded shoulder bag. Perhaps admiring is the wrong

word.</p><p>"So, is this, like, a thing now?" she says.</p> <a

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Nylind/The Guardian Tim Dowling 2025-01-30T10:00:32Z Chanel realigns its logo with bridging catwalk at show focused on timeless skirt suit

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/jan/28/chanel-logo-catwalk-haute-couture-show-grand-palais-paris <p>House deploys elegant visual allegory at Grand Palais to keep its name in

lights during design interregnum</p><p>Designers come and go, but the Chanel tweed suit is for ever. That was the message from a show marking the 110th anniversary of haute

couture at Chanel. The house is in the middle of more than a year of catwalk shows without a designer to take a bow – Virginie Viard made her final appearance last May, <a

href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/dec/14/chanel-opts-for-craft-over-celebrity-in-choice-of-new-creative-chief-matthieu-blazy">and her successor, Matthieu

Blazy</a>, will not make his first until October – so it is working overtime to keep the Chanel name in lights.</p><p>The catwalk was formed of two broad curving walkways,

which together formed the double C that is instantly recognisable as Chanel. But instead of sitting back to back, as in the logo, the two walkways were teased apart into bridges curving up

and over each other, interlinking to form a figure of eight in the shape of the infinity symbol.</p> <a

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Fashion weeks Life and style Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:37:16 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/jan/28/chanel-logo-catwalk-haute-couture-show-grand-palais-paris Photograph: Stéphane

Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris 2025-01-28T14:37:16Z Chanel hits lavish new heights in efforts to reignite

Chinese market https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/dec/06/chanel-hits-lavish-new-heights-in-efforts-to-reignite-chinese-market <p>Livered barges carried guests to floating stage

on illuminated lake at Hangzhou end-of-year show</p><p>Coco Chanel was an ambitious woman, but even she could not have imagined the scale on which the house she founded now

operates. This time last year, four blocks of Manchester's Northern Quarter became a Chanel catwalk. For its final show of 2024, Chanel built a black wooden catwalk spanning the West

Lake in Hangzhou, China, to parade this season's tweed suits with the kiss-curl roof of a pagoda sitting atop a crescent moon bridge over glassy water as a dramatic

backdrop.</p><p>The 6,000-mile journey from Manchester to Hangzhou reflects the global expansion of Chanel, the second-largest luxury brand in the world. With global revenue

reaching $19.7bn in 2023, a rise of 16% on the previous year, Chanel is closing the gap on leaders Louis Vuitton.</p> <a

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Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP Jess Cartner-Morley in Hangzhou 2024-12-06T12:00:55Z Disneyland, serenades and archery: highlights from Paris fashion week SS25 – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/oct/03/disneyland-serenades-and-archery-highlights-from-paris-fashion-week-ss-2025-in-pictures <p>From fireworks and Kylie Jenner for

Coperni to a supersized birdcage at Chanel and target practice at Dior, the shows in the French capital were en pointe for spring</p> <a

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shorts Women's sportswear Women's suits Women's tops Women's trousers Men's coats and jackets Men's sportswear Men's suits Men's tops Men's

trousers Dior Balenciaga Vivienne Westwood Louis Vuitton Chanel Alexander McQueen Victoria Beckham Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:00:29 GMT

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Tombolini Jo Jones and Helen Seamons 2024-10-03T17:00:29Z Unflappable Chanel in no hurry to find new designer amid continuity in Paris

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/oct/01/unflappable-chanel-no-hurry-new-designer-continuity-in-paris <p>Label doubles down on house codes as empty birdcage signals its last

creative director – Virginie Viard – has flown</p><p>The birdcage on the Chanel catwalk was empty, its door swung open. A metaphor for a house that is without a designer after

Virginie Viard's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/06/virginie-viard-exits-chanel-contenders-buzz-back">recent departure</a> – the bird

has flown – and a Chanel Easter egg, a wink to a teenage Vanessa Paradis swinging in a birdcage in a 1991 advertisement for Coco fragrance that was itself a reference to the birds Coco

herself kept in her Paris home.</p><p>This birdcage was scaled for a golden eagle, almost reaching the 45-metre ceiling height of the Grand Palais – appropriate for a brand that

has grown from Coco's apartment to become a $20bn (£15bn) business.</p> <a

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Fashion weeks Fashion Paris France World news Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:39:43 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/oct/01/unflappable-chanel-no-hurry-new-designer-continuity-in-paris

Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris 2024-10-01T13:39:43Z Chanel shows no sign of drift, even without a chief

designer at helm https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/25/paris-fashion-week-chanel-shows-no-sign-of-drift-without-designer <p>Luxury brand's studio team turn to

timeless tweeds and neat silhouettes in first show since Virginie Viard's sudden exit</p><p>There were 12 boucle-tweed suits, in colours from pistachio to raspberry. There

were endless swishy blond ponytails tied with black silk bows, and a clatter of satin Mary Jane shoes with pearled heels. There were Hollywood faces – Keira Knightley and Michelle Williams –

in the front row of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, countless quilted-flap 2.55 handbags in the front row and a finale bridal gown with a sweeping ivory silk

train.</p><p>But one crucial thing was missing from this season's Chanel haute couture show: a designer to take a bow. Since <a

href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/06/virginie-viard-exits-chanel-contenders-buzz-back">the sudden exit </a>this month of the designer Virginie

Viard, who had led Chanel since the death of Karl Lagerfeld five years ago, this mighty luxury brand, worth an estimated £15.5bn ($19.7bn), is headless. The vacancy for fashion's top

job is the talk of Paris fashion week.</p> <a

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Chanel Fashion Fashion weeks Life and style Karl Lagerfeld Fashion industry Paris Europe France World news Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:04:13 GMT

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Marechal Aurore/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock Jess Cartner-Morley 2024-06-25T13:04:13Z As Virginie Viard leaves Chanel, who are the contenders to bring its buzz back?

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/jun/06/virginie-viard-exits-chanel-contenders-buzz-back <p>Artistic director's departure opens up one of fashion's top jobs

at brand hoping to become a talking point again</p><p>Virginie Viard, the artistic director who replaced Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel after his death in 2019, is to exit the French

luxury brand, leaving open one of fashion's top jobs.</p><p>Viard was just the third artistic director at the 114-year-old brand after Lagerfeld and its founder, Gabrielle

"Coco" Chanel. She will leave after five years in the role and three decades with the fashion house.</p> <a

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Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP Lauren Cochrane 2024-06-06T11:59:28Z 'We need to take risks': Chanel gets gritty with Marseille show

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/may/02/chanel-gritty-marseille-show <p>Luxury brand continues its strategy of engaging with diversity and real life – but the prices

are less inclusive</p><p>Grey hoodies layered under the pastel tweed suits, a catwalk on top of an apartment building with concrete benches instead of gilt chairs, looking out

over the rooftops of Marseille, France's less manicured second city. Chanel has – in fashion speak – a New Look. In the parlance of 2024, it is in its gritty

era.</p><p>"If Marseille is unexpected, that's good. We don't want to be stuck. We need to take risks if we want to show that Chanel is for everyone," said

Bruno Pavlovsky, Chanel's president of fashion, before the brand's first ever show in the city. "If we were just for the happy few in the Rue Cambon [in Paris], then that

would be the beginning of the end."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/article/2024/may/02/chanel-gritty-marseille-show">Continue

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Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Jess Cartner-Morley in Marseille 2024-05-02T14:35:43Z March design news: the history of hi-fi, the

future of energy and a pizza watch https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/27/april-design-news-the-history-of-hi-fi-the-future-of-energy-and-a-pizza-watch <p>A preview of

the Milan Furniture Fair, the latest exhibition at Vitra Design Museum and the relaunch of London's best 60s boutique</p><p>This month's design news is pretty

nostalgic. Jonny Trunk's wonderful history of hi-fi catalogues reminds us of the world before downloads and the relaunch of boutique Granny Takes a Trip brings back 60s psychedelia.

And, as the new exhibition at Vitra Museum shows, looking to the past for answers to modern problems may well be the best solution.</p> <a

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Fisher 2024-03-27T09:00:47Z Chanel brings Hollywood and seaside chic to Paris fashion week

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/mar/05/chanel-penelope-cruz-brad-pitt-virginie-viard-paris-fashion-week <p>Penélope Cruz and Brad Pitt star in a remake of a French classic as

designer Virginie Viard turns the catwalk into a coastal boardwalk</p><p>The lights dimmed, and the Chanel show opened with Penélope Cruz and Brad Pitt on the catwalk. Cruz

smouldered in a chic black polo neck and discreet diamonds, Pitt twinkly eyed in an open-necked white shirt. They gazed into each other's eyes, flirted a little, and then – how could

either of them resist? – embarked on a clandestine affair.</p><p>Well, almost. Cruz was, in fact, sitting demurely in the front row in a leather skirt suit, and Pitt was not in

attendance. The rendezvous was on a short film, made for the show and screened above the catwalk, a remake of a seminal scene in Claude Lelouch's Un Homme et Une Femme, a classic Gallic

romance about a widow and widower falling in love that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival in 1966. Lelouch, now 86, was also a guest of honour at Chanel's show.</p>

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Segretain/Getty Images Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris 2024-03-05T13:43:57Z The New Look review – the rivalry between Coco Chanel and Christian Dior is absurd to the point of insult

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/14/the-new-look-review-coco-chanel-christian-dior-rivalry-apple-tv <p>This simplistic, grandiose drama about French couture history

treats the second world war as an inconvenience to fashion. Even Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn can't save it</p><p>Apple TV+'s new drama series sets out its stall

early. It opens with two captions. "During World War II," explains the first, "the Germans occupied Paris for four years, forcing the French to submit to Nazi authority and

oppression.""This is the story," the second tells us, "of how creation helped return spirit and life to the world."</p><p>Simplistic, grandiose and

absurd to the point of insult – welcome to the world of The New Look. This is the tale of the rivalry between designers Coco Chanel and Christian Dior that was formed in the crucible of a

global conflict, which, not content with simply putting a spoke in the wheels of fashion's evolution and Coco's business in particular, also killed millions of Jews. But don't

worry – you're not going to hear much about them. This is about the importance of art and beautifully dressed Gallic suffering (you're not going to hear much about Vichy France,

either, and its very unstylish <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/17/france-admits-deporting-jews">deportation of 76,000 Jews to death camps</a>), so

don your highest couture and on we go!</p> <a

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Juliette Binoche John Malkovich Maisie Williams Television & radio Culture Drama Fashion Wed, 14 Feb 2024 05:00:27 GMT

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Mangan 2024-02-14T05:00:27Z Tutu skirt takes centre stage in Paris as Chanel channels ballet trend

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/23/tutu-skirt-takes-centre-stage-in-paris-as-chanel-channels-ballet-trend <p>Designer for haute couture show wanted to 'bring together

the power and finesse of bodies and clothes'</p><p>Paris fashion has spoken: get ready for the year of the tutu skirt.</p><p>Chanel has thrown its might behind

2024's first breakout look, with tulle dancers' skirts the stars of the haute couture catwalk. Days after the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the title sequence of Sex and the

City sold for $52,000 (£41,000) in Los Angeles – outstripping the estimate of $8,000-$12,000 expected by auction house Julien's – Chanel has confirmed ballet as fashion's new

obsession.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/23/tutu-skirt-takes-centre-stage-in-paris-as-chanel-channels-ballet-trend">Continue

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Cartner-Morley in Paris 2024-01-23T15:04:28Z 'Good for Chanel and good for Manchester': Fashion show delights city's luminaries

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/dec/08/good-for-chanel-and-good-for-manchester-fashion-show-delights-citys-luminaries <p>Catwalk in the city's fashionable Northern

Quarter celebrated its musical, cultural and sporting prowess</p><p>"It is radically unexpected. Truly extraordinary. Genuinely off the wall. It is so superincongruous that

it's weirdly interesting."<br><br> The renowned designer Peter Saville, speaking to the Guardian a few hours before Chanel's catwalk show, painted quite the

picture of the "dynamically unusual" state visit by the most august and courtly of Parisian fashion houses to the rainy streets of Manchester.<br><br> A front row that

ran past the tattoo parlours, pubs and karaoke bars of the Northern Quarter brought together Tilda Swinton with Gary Neville, and Hugh Grant with John Cooper Clarke. On the street catwalk,

the bodice of a cocktail dress was hand-embroidered in concentric circles of jet beads to look like the liquorice-black grooves on a vinyl record, while intarsia cashmere sweaters were

plastered in graphics inspired by nightclub flyers. The invitation to the show was a montage of images from Mancunian counter-culture: Saville's designs for Factory Records; Emmeline

Pankhurst, the suffragette, marching with her daughters; the striped walls of the Hacienda; images of the old Granada studios – soon to reopen as the first Manchester outpost of Soho House –

and Kevin Cummins's 1979 photograph of Joy Division on Hulme Bridge.</p><p>"This show is an indicator that there is a perception of Manchester out there in the world

that is brokered not just by football, and that's really important," said Saville. "It's an interesting endorsement. It's good for Chanel and it's good for

Manchester."<br><br> After the show, which was protected from the elements by a giant metal canopy supporting a transparent roof, Cummins said: "It had a really great

Mancunian feel. It didn't feel like Chanel had just parachuted in here and chucked in cliches. Everyone I spoke to felt the same way. And I thought it was interesting that it rained. It

was proper Mancunian weather, wasn't it?"</p> <a

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Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Jess Cartner-Morley in Manchester 2023-12-08T15:00:54Z