Celebrating the endless renewal at the heart of CHANEL Haute Couture, the Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture show took place at the Grand Palais, in Paris. Ambassadors and friends of CHANEL discovered the colourful silhouettes of the collection in a setting inspired by the idea of infinite movement. | CHANEL

Inspired by the artistic spirit of the villa Noailles in the south of France, the CHANEL Spring-Summer 2024 Ready-to-Wear show set evokes the villa’s terraced gardens and the lines of its avant-garde architecture. Surrounded by projections of hinterland views and giant flowers by Inez & Vinoodh, ambassadors and friends of the House watched on as graphic tweeds and floral embroideries are punctuated by touches of light, plays of contrast, colours and asymmetries. At the heart of this collection,

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