Far from a follower, the French fashion house often sets the pace for the season’s style direction. Its Paris Fashion Week presentations land right at the end of the four-week fashion month of collections, and it’s often said the season isn’t fully in focus until Chanel’s models have walked.
But this season its fascinating to see the house’s key pieces landing squarely where fashion lover’s desires lay right now. From playing with the volume of reimagined denim to head-turning red looks and gauzy, featherlight- sheers, each idea slots perfectly into the wardrobe, whether you’re in the northern or southern hemisphere.
Inventive layering is an idea that is quickly gathering speed in the fashion world (skirts and dresses over pants are back!) and that’s certainly the case in this collection. It’s surprising to see new takes on modern denim from Chanel too, in the form of a blue velvet suit that creates a trompe-l’oeil denim effect.
Finally, it’s hard not to fall in love with the playful twist on Chanel’s beloved motifs, too. The house knows its hits and has put them in clear focus in a season where the brand has not yet established the signatures of its new creative director, Matthieu Blazy. (They will arrive shortly, as Blazy debuts his designs for Spring/Summer 26, at the imminent Paris Fashion Week).
In the latest collection, just landed in boutiques, the bow, the ribbon, the pearl, tweed and two-tone are reimagined through plays on scales of size, length and proportion, making it more than apparent where each item hails from.
Here are our favourite pieces from the Fall-Winter 2025/26 Ready-to-Wear collection, captured in a series of images featuring model Lulu Tenney, photographed by Anthony Seklaoui.
Images: Copyright Chanel.
