Chanel Haute Couture: Everything you need to know about the Fall/Winter 2020-2021 collection | Vogue France

On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, the second day of the new digital Haute Couture Fashion Week, it’s Chanel‘s turn to unveil its Fall/Winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection. Photographed and filmed by Mikael Jansson, the collection is meant to be brilliant, festive and deliberately dressy. “I was thinking about a punk princess coming out of ‘Le Palace’ at dawn,” said Virginie Viard in an official statement. “With a taffeta dress, big hair, feathers and lots of jewelry. This collection is more inspired by Karl Lagerfeld than Gabrielle Chanel. Karl would go to ‘Le Palace’, he would accompany these very sophisticated and very dressed up women, who were very eccentric too.”

Chanel haute couture Fall/Winter 2020-2021

Mikael Jansson

As the ultimate celebration of haute couture, of fashion itself, this collection places the essence of opulence at its heart, marked by a desire for beauty, celebration and pleasure. It’s the pleasure of dressing up, of putting on a dress that brings together all the savoir-faire of the rue Cambon fashion house and its accomplices, and which sets itself up as the main character. With sequins, gems and pearls, the magic of the Lesage, Montex, Lemarié and Goossens Métiers d’Art can be seen on the precious tweeds, the trouser suits, the short dresses with a marked waist, the corolla skirts, and the noble long dresses with a Grand Siècle look that Virginie Viard thinks of as the pomp of heroines fleeing from 19th century tableaux. “It’s true that I thought about paintings, but it was more German paintings. I really had Karl’s world in mind,” she concludes.