Chanel S/S 2026 Paris

[Caffeine]

Both are interesting.
Both are also lacking the tailoring skills we saw in the prior generations, or chose not to show them. They seem to be more interested in crafts more than tailoring. (Blazy made much nicer dresses though).
Lagerfeld could create very difficult pieces, but he never forgot about the core clientele. Let's wait and see...

 

[GoldenTribe]

To those saying that Nicole Kidman's look to the show was mundane or comparing her to Martha Stewart - the pants are cashmere jeans, and the shirt is lined with Chanel's signature chainlink detail just like the tweed jackets. So, not mundane.

Thank you for the video, it was nice to be able to see the interior chain trim (circa 1min) and other details which I haven't seen pictured clearly elsewhere.

Is it even possible that this quote means anything? Is it just self-serving fantasy?
"Before the fitting that I had with Nicole, I was really lucky -- I got to Paris a couple of days early, I got to go into the atelier and just kind of give some direction and ideas that I would love to see ... that collaboration with the Chanel team was really special and important. And then we did a fitting...."
- I hope it's just playing fast and loose with the facts in service to routine social media puffery, but surely nobody at Chanel wants input from a celebrity stylist?

Separately, the fabric composition conversation in this thread has been interesting (especially in terms of how focusing on material sometimes eclipses or ignores construction and labour), but it put me in mind of how Naked & Famous makes 10% cashmere jeans for $247. Maybe as stratospherically-priced [cotton] denim is steadily normalized, we should be shocked when four-digit jeans are NOT made of cashmere or woven on vintage Japanese shuttle looms .... ? (Don't come after me for saying it!)

 

[Caffeine]

Loro Piana always made jeans with cashmere. This is not a new idea.
Chanel's jeans are priced far higher ($3k+) with 100% cotton. I'm sure that people will buy the cashmere denim offered by Chanel.
(I was told that VV's jeans were sold far better than Karl's jeans because they fit the female body better.)

 

[Nimsay]

The handbags are major flops, but honestly, Chanel’s runway bags have never been the point. The real hits always came from the design team feeding boutiques.

The minaudières? Total misses - the egg, the globe, all of it. Nothing special.

Those shallow totes looked like serving trays with straps.

The pebbled leather flaps are actually gorgeous, but the missing chain in the strap is criminal. I’d be all in if they just added that detail.

Then again it would be 10k and Id rather get another grandma bag.

 

[Creative]

On Instagram people with lot of time are posting many BV looks that are exactly like the ones in this show in a “outfits that look alike” kinda way. There’s basically nothing he didn’t do before and no one was considering him the Messiah in BV.

Fashion is such a circus.