PHOTOGRAPHS: BENOÎT PEVERELLI/COURTESY OF CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE, AMBRA VERNUCCIO, JASON LLOYD-EVANSCOUTUR E R EPORT
All looks from Chanel Haute Couture A/W 19It was poignant that the first
couture collection by Virginie
Viard for Chanel had a library
setting – for who loved books
more t ha n Ka rl La ger feld?
After three decades as his
right-hand woman, the
designer did her mentor
proud, emerging with
thoughtful clothes showing a
new, soft and stripped-back
femininity that nonetheless
acknowledged both Lagerfeld
and Mademoiselle Chanel
herself in its tropes. Brava.