CHANEL IONS

Fall/winter 2022 marks the return to in-person shows for almost all designers. They rose to the occasion with collections that ignited both delight and desire. Be it armour or adornment you seek, these are the clothes in which to face the world today. By

The love affair between Chanel and tweed was born of a literal romance—Gabrielle Chanel used to wear the tweed pieces of her lover, the Duke of Westminster. In 1925, Chanel then introduced the now-famous tweed suit in her salon on Rue de Cambon in Paris, giving way to a future where women wore—and coveted— this rebranded fabric. So when Virginie Viard set the memo for fall/winter 2022, it was no surprise that the Grand Palais Éphémere was decked out in tweed, too. The runway itself was not meant to be a green carpet, but a representation of the River Tweed, the body of water that runs across the border of Scotland and England. What better way to honour the Maison’s DNA than by literally swathing it in it? The clothes were delightfully candy-coloured, with generous doses of teal and raspberry that look renewed when rendered in the timeless textile. And in step with the bucolic references of the collection, cardigans were aptly cosy— styled with Chanel rubber wellies, no less.