CHANEL autumn winter 2020-21 ready-to-wear fashion show

Collection designed by Virginie Viard for CHANEL and presented at Paris Fashion Week. The new Autumn winter 2020-21 collection is, in the director's words, a very pure and simple boost. There is romanticism but without frills; there are emotions but no frills. "Pleasure," Lagerfeld once said, "is the beginning of the end," and one that Viard used in his conceptual discourse on the collection. For Viard, eternal luxury is emotional luxury. As Lipovetsky points out: "They have won by hand the demand for ostentation and social recognition: the contemporary era sees an unprecedented luxury assert itself, an emotional luxury that replaces the primacy of social theatricality with that of intimate sensations." The garments are made as an intimate portrait in which almost conceptual minimalism predominates, contrasting and colliding with the baroque style of the jewels. The color palette tends to the binomial of the house - white and black - and refined tones. "Coco is always a source of inspiration," says Viard. Green and pale pink color design proposals made with tweed and accompany its eternal companion: black and white. Two tones that underline the designer's work and that are based on references to the world of riding: from Coco's horse, dubbed "Romantic", to Claude Chabrol's film 'Les Biches', the controversial love triangle between two women and a man. Reason why the models paraded two by two or in groups of three. Double-breasted coats take to the catwalk with patterns inspired by 1920s aesthetics; Very short tops combined with micro-shorts and tube skirts show the calfskin boots in calfskin along with panties and costume jewelry, tends to crystals and pearls. The original soundtrack was created by sound designer Michel Gaubert.