Chanel Spring Summer 2025: A New Creative Flight Launches
For the first time after reopening, the French fashion house Chanel chose to go back to the Grand Palais in Paris.
The Grand Palais is situated on the right bank of the River Seine, just opposite the Champs-Élysées in the lively 8th arrondissement. It was here where the guests started flowing in at the Grand Palais. For the first time since it closed its doors to visitors in 2021 for renovation, a Chanel show has been hosted here. The venue has featured outrageous sets aplenty: a beach, a spaceship, and a cruise ship. This year, it showed off a giant birdcage created to sit under the palace's stunning glass roof, and the audience was again drawn into the heart of the French capital.
Movement and lightness prefaced the collection, ideal for the spring and summer seasons. Delicate fabrics, transparent layers, soft pastel hues, and ribbons and tweed—a trademark Chanel element—identified Coco Chanel's vision through the creative team of the brand. As the creative director's position remains vacant, the iconic pieces—that is, the classic skirt suit, chiffon capes, floral dresses, and denim—thrived under the show.
In a dramatic finale, Riley Keough graciously swung inside the oversized birdcage while serenading with the audience surrounded by the models at the end of the show. Standing against the backdrop of the Grand Palais green pavilion, the giant white structure proved to be the perfect addition to the spectacular scene.
It's been close to four months since the brand head designer Virginie Viard left, and the fashion community awaits breathlessly who shall take the mantle of this house and fulfill its eternal legacy.
