Chanel SS-2024 Campaign Shot by Inez & Vinoodh at Historic Villa Noailles

Chanel SS-2024 Campaign Shot by Inez & Vinoodh at Historic Villa Noailles

Coco Chanel's connection to Villa Noailles [IG] is a fascinating chapter in fashion history. That unique relationship is expressed in the Chanel [IG] Spring 2024 ad campaign and also in lush floral prints inspired by the villa itself, located in Hyères, in the heart of the South of France.

This year, the campaign stars actor Riley Keough, named days ago as Chanel’s new ambassador, alongside longtime Chanel muse, supermodel Rianne Van Rompaey.

Villa Noailles was celebrated at Chanel’s Spring 2024 PFW runway show last October. The new campaign by frequent Chanel collaborators Inez and Vinoodh [IG], unfolds in the villa’s garden and its iconic pink room, envisioned as sanctuaries of creativity and happiness for the Chanel woman.

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Chanel Cruise 2024 Campaign with Anna Ewers, Loli Bahia by Inez & Vinoodh

Chanel Cruise 2024 Campaign with Anna Ewers, Loli Bahia by Inez & Vinoodh

The Chanel Cruise 2024 Campaign travels to LA, home to its May 10, 2023 cruise show. The new cruise collection marries the reverie of glamorous Hollywood film figures with Los Angeles’ active lifestyle pursuits: board sports, aerobics, roller skating and more.

In the new Chanel Cruise campaign, models Anna Ewers and Loli Bahia capture the cinematic side of the LA vibe of the 1960s in images and film by Inez & Vinoodh [IG] [Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin]. The film is fabulous imo.

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Catching Up with Lupita Nyong'o No 1 : Chanel, Selema Masekela, Meeting Alek Wek

Catching Up with Lupita Nyong'o No 1 : Chanel, Selema Masekela, Meeting Alek Wek

As part of Anne of Carversville’s ongoing years-long renewal of our deep, pre 2020 archives, this ‘Catching Up With . . . ‘ series will take people we love and issues we care about into the ‘now’ world.

August 28: A Key Day in Lupita’s Life

Take note of the two lovebirds sitting in the salon of Coco Chanel’s apartment, in a series of images from the actor’s IG. Dear Lupita is in a deep-love relationship with Selema Masekela, born on my birthday August 28.

If the name sounds familiar, Selema is the American-born son of Hugh Masekela, often described as "the father of South African jazz".

It’s also the day of Lupita’s ‘Black Panther’ co-star Chadwick Boseman’s passing: August 28, 2020.

The story of how Lupita and Selema first met is priceless. That alone is worth the read.

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Marie Teissonniere Wears Tweed de Chanel High Jewelry for Harper's Bazaar Arabia

Marie Teissonniere Wears Tweed de Chanel High Jewelry for Harper's Bazaar Arabia

The September 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia features rising model Marie Teissonniere wearing key pieces from Chanel’s Tweed high jewelry collection styled by Anna Castan. Photographer Mattia Guolo [IG] captures the fashion story ‘Total Knockout’, with its focus on new beauty products besides its new Tweed de Chanel high jewelery collection. / Hair by Jean-Luc Amarin; production by Jean-Marc Mondelet

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Chanel Les 4 Ombres Byzance Beauty and Jewelry for Vittoria Ceretti by Elizaveta Porodina

Chanel Les 4 Ombres Byzance Beauty and Jewelry for Vittoria Ceretti by Elizaveta Porodina

Chanel shares an inspired new eyeshadow collection Les 4 Ombres Byzance with design and color roots in the rich history of Byzantine jewelry, and several pieces in the archived collection of Gabrielle Chanel herself.

Chanel muse Vittoria Ceretti is the face of the campaign, with an image style that is a perfect expression for the creative mind of photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG].

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Iman Perez Poses in Chanel Pre-Fall-Winter 2023 Paris Images by Malick Bodian

Iman Perez Poses in Chanel Pre-Fall-Winter 2023 Paris Images by Malick Bodian

Chanel shares images of their Pre-Fall-Winter 2023 collection featuring model and actor Iman Pérez, who is of Spanish, Senegalese, German and French descent.

The video is more modern glam — but energetic — than these images. Ib Kamara [IG] styles Pérez, with images by Malick Bodian [IG].

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Chanel Eyewear 2023 Campaign Channels Disco Glam by Karim Sadli

Chanel Eyewear 2023 Campaign Channels Disco Glam by Karim Sadli

Chanel launches its 2023 Eyewear campaign inspired by retro style and the rise of bling. If we attach a trend to the campaign, disco is dancing center stage.

Karim Sadli [IG] captures top models Vivienne Rohner and Hyunji Shin, along with Niles Rodgers, a critically acclaimed musician, composer, and producer who has made an indelible mark on the music industry.

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Zhong Lin Shoots Chloe Magno for Vogue Taiwan May 2023 Chanel Metiers d'Art

Zhong Lin Shoots Chloe Magno for Vogue Taiwan May 2023 Chanel Metiers d'Art

Filipino-American model Chloe Magno gained fashion media acclaim on the launch issue cover of Vogue Philippines in September 2022.

Today we meet Chloe Magno a second time in a superb cover story for Vogue Taiwan’s May 2023 issue.

Self-taught photographer Zong Lin [IG] is behind the lens, creating yet another visual spectacle that transcends most editorial fashion photography.

Chen Yu styles the shoot with key pieces from the Chanel Metiers d’Art show in Senegal. / Makeup by Sting Hsieh; hair by Miley Schen

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Vogue US May 2023 Tributes Karl Lagerfeld with 10 Top Models and 10 Luxury Brands

Vogue US May 2023 Tributes Karl Lagerfeld with 10 Top Models and 10 Luxury Brands

American Vogue’s May 2023 issue pays tribute to Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, one of fashion’s greatest talents. Lagerfeld is the focus of the upcoming retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and annual fundraiser hosted by Anna Wintour and referred to as The Met Gala 2023, scheduled for Monday May 1, 2023.

Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute’s brilliant curator has titled the new exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” a reference to the painter William Hogarth. The artist believed that an ever-turning, ever-changing line captures more energy and life than a straight one. This idea was conceptually embedded in nature by Hogarth and other artists and intellectuals discuss this concept. More than one of them referenced the serpeant as an ideal symbol.

Lagerfeld’s career spanned appointments at Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel, and his eponymous brand.

For the cover, Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] photographed 10 muses, women who are part of a larger group of models adored by Karl Lagerfeld.

Models include Adut Akech, Amber Valletta, Anok Yai, Devon Aoki, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Liu Wen, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova and Shalom Harlow, pose in the creations of other designers paying tribute to Karl Lagerfeld with the fashion itself and also words.

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Chanel 22 Bag Snares BLACKPINK's Jennie Kim for Seoul Tour by Inez & Vinoodh

Chanel 22 Bag Snares BLACKPINK's Jennie Kim for Seoul Tour by Inez & Vinoodh

The Chanel 22 bag was first presented in the French luxury brand’s Spring-Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear show. Today BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim steps into the spotlight as a Chanel ambassador, with her own Chanel 22 bag on her shoulder.

The Chanel 22 Bag campaign has rolled out in a sequence that also includes Lily-Rose Depp, Margaret Qualley and Whitney Peak, in three different settings: Los Angeles, Palm Springs and New York.

Regular Chanel contributors Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin photographed Jennie Kim in Seoul, South Korea.

To AOC, the collages also tap into new visual imagery being unleashed in the rapidly emerging field of AI and its ability to create sophisticated visual composites.

Take a look at Maika Inga in an AI production for 10 Magazine posted Sunday.

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Chanel Ambassador 'Whitney Peak: Keeping It Real' in Vogue Hong Kong by Royal Gilbert

Chanel Ambassador 'Whitney Peak: Keeping It Real' in Vogue Hong Kong by Royal Gilbert

With actor Whitney Peak’s appointment as Chanel’s new Coco Mademoiselle Fragrance Ambassador, AOC circles back to a Vogue Hong Kong November 2022 fashion story.

Olivia Leblanc styled Peak bold and sexy fashion, lensed by Royal Gilbert [IG] for ‘Whitney Peak: Keeping It Real’.

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Actor Whitney Peak Named Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Ambassador

Actor Whitney Peak Named Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Ambassador

Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle Fragrance has a new ambassador — 20-year-old actor Whitney Peak [IG], who now follows in the footsteps of Kate Moss and Keira Knightly.

The Ugandian-Canadian actor has an existing relationship with Chanel. Peak had a major role in the 2021 HBO Max reboot of the Gossip Girl series, the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark, the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the Disney+ film Hocus Pocus 2.

The Coco Mademoiselle fragrance and Whitney Peak are a perfect match. Whitney Peak isn’t a shy femme; rather she embraces her bold and carefree side, as expressed in her natural, 2023 Diana Ross hairdo.

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Adit Priscilla in Chanel Fragrance and Jewelry for Numero 235 by Bastiaan Woudt

Adit Priscilla in Chanel Fragrance and Jewelry for Numero 235 by Bastiaan Woudt

Rising South Sudanese model Adit Priscilla is styled by Rebecca Bleynie in Chanel jewelry and fragrance for Numero 235, end-of-year all Chanel editorial content issue. Supremely-gifted, Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt [IG] is in the studio.

Woudt began his own self-taught photography practice from scratch about five years ago. The exceptional talent also does his own post-production work, infusing a modern, graphic vision with classical DNA and elegance into his black and white images. He’s a WOW!

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Chanel Métiers d’Art [Pre-Fall 2023] Show in Dakar, Senegal Did Not Go 'Badly Wrong'

Chanel Métiers d’Art [Pre-Fall 2023] Show in Dakar, Senegal Did Not Go 'Badly Wrong'

Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel, spoke openly with Vogue Business that now more than ever business cannot be conducted as it was in a prepandemic world.

AOC adds a pre-George Floyd murder-world as well, and Pavlovsky spoke candidly about Senegal’s reality as a former French colony.

Lying three miles west of Dakar, Gorée Island was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast. “We cannot go to other parts of the world just for 20 minutes. It is not enough. We have to have this dialogue,” the Chanel executive acknowledged.

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‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar' by Malick Bodian with Akon, Jill, Kathia, Mariam, Maty

‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar' by Malick Bodian with Akon, Jill, Kathia, Mariam, Maty

Photographer [today] and model Malick Bodian [IG] continues his work with Chanel in this presentation ‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar. Jenke Ahmed Tailly styles a model cast that includes Akon Changkou, Jill Kortlieve, Kathia Ndong, Mariam de Vinzelle and Maty Fall. / Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Ammy Drammeh

Select images come from a pre-show image shoot in Paris, with the majority being shot in Dakar — as the name ‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar suggests.

Ib Kamara did work with Bodian in Paris.

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Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

The Chanel Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ stars Adesuwa Aighewi, Giedre Dukauskaite, Soo Joo Park, Matthew Bell and Reece Nelson as lunar explorers styled by Veronique Didry and lensed by Nicolas Kantor.

Did luxury house Chanel know that America’s Artemis 1 mission was headed to the moon when their holiday campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ was released? Probably not, as our Artemis 1 mission roared high into the sky two months behind schedule. Still, the timing ended up being perfect.

The Beauty campaign has the Eiffel Tower lifting off like Artemis, becoming a cool rocket rising into the Parisian night sky.

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Chanel in Dakar!!! Video Embedded | Black Beauty Menswear in Senegal for HTSI

Chanel in Dakar!!! Video Embedded | Black Beauty Menswear in Senegal for HTSI

Chanel show in Dakar now embedded. Chanel ambassador Pharrell Williams was on the ground in Dakar, spreading his ‘Humanrace’ message.

Fresh off his runway walk in the Dior Menswear show at Pyramid Giza, Egypt, Malick Bodian — cover model for this original How To Spend It November 2022 presentation was PROUDLY in Dakar, Senegal to take part in his home country festivities. Bodi took many images for fashion media.

Senegalese musician NIX shared his thoughts on Chanel coming to Dakar: “We have a culture that is very open to the world, we have been influenced by many things, which I see as a richness, and this generates an overflowing creativity today.”

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Chanel's Cruise 2023 Campaign, Shot in Monaco by Mikael Jansson with Loli and Vittoria

Chanel's Cruise 2023 Campaign, Shot in Monaco by Mikael Jansson with Loli and Vittoria

French luxury powerhouse Chanel shares its Cruise 2023 campaign starring rising French model Loli Bahia and top model Vittoria Ceretti. Bahia first walked the fall 2020 Louis Vuitton show when she was still in high school.

The campaign, shot by Mikael Jansson [IG] pays tribute to Monaco and Karl Lagerdeld’s ties to the principality. Designer Virginie Viard highlights Monte Carlo’s cosmopolitan elegance, and glamour in her designs.

Coming on May 5 through July 16, 2023 ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’ will be on view — and the focus of — The Metropolitan Museum’s of Art’s Spring 2023 The Costume Institute Benefit [also known as The Met Gala®].

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