Charlotte Casiraghi to open Chanel Couture Spring 2022 Show

Charlotte Casiraghi opened the Chanel Couture Spring 2022 fashion show in the most spectacular way. Riding a horse across the set designed by the artist Xavier Veilhan. 

"What I liked was that feeling of Karl's old sets - a strength of Chanel - and I think it works in the setting of the Grand Palais. It's a bit like a World's Fair," the Creative director Virginie Viard  said. Everything under the musical ambiance by Sebastien Tellier. 

A plunge into the 60s style 

Keeping Kalr Lagerfeld's line and Chanel's spirit, the designer emerged into a world of well-known elements, melting into 20s style with a light collection of chiffons, feathered slipdresses, fringed skirts, monochrome sequined tweed. Of course, the tweed jackets were at rendez-vous! They were matched with split-back flaps reminding of the equestrian uniforms, cuffed pants. Checked tweed coat dresses and A-line tunics made a style plunge into the 60s. 

"It's a new signature for the house, and at the same time it has a very strong influence on Virginie's inspiration for the collection. I think the collection fits perfectly into this decor. It's an extraordinary alchemy that renders this exercise unique," Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion and president of Chanel SAS said. 

Charlotte Casiraghi, Chanel fashion ambassador and book club muse

Charlotte Casiraghi will continue to be the brand's ambassador. She will be the muse for campaigns, for the couture show film and she will, also, animate a literary event that acts as a kind of super-chic book club, twice a month. 

"It's a very beautiful collaboration in every sense - intellectual, philosophical. There's a real affinity between Charlotte and Virginie, and Charlotte and Chanel," he said. "It's a story that is always being rewritten."