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Chanel goes to the opera in a gleaming but designer-less couture collection

Jun. 25, 2024 17:57 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — The show must go on, with aplomb. Chanel’s latest couture display Tuesday was a finely executed collection channeling theatricality. Few Parisian fashion houses can fill the Paris Opera and gain applause from Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and other luminaries...

Virginie Viard, who succeeded Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, leaves fashion house

Jun. 06, 2024 07:43 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Virginie Viard, the artistic director who replaced Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel after his death, is leaving the French luxury fashion house. Chanel did not immediately announce a replacement for the 62-year-old Viard, who worked with Lagerfeld for more than two decades and...