It’s a Tweed Affair for CHANEL’s Spring-Summer 2023 Haute Couture Collection

CHANEL presented a straightforward approach to their SS ‘23 Haute Couture collection in part by approaching this particular offering with a past remedy that mixed architectural inspiration with fantastical whimsy. “For his third participation, I asked him to reinterpret the apartment’s bestiary and incorporate his own,” [Virginie Viard] says of Xavier Veilhan‘s starting point when beginning to sketch for the collection.

Flouncy minidresses, coat dresses, round-toe booties in white and gold colorways, easy jumpsuits, pleats, and plenty of signature tweed riddled the runway as models took their turn going down the scaled-down center stage surrounded by paper mache sequel huts and statues, where guests sat in attendance huddled on sports-reminiscent spectator-style bleachers.