Chanel's spring/summer 2022 collection [1] was presented during Paris Fashion Week [2] at Grand Palais Éphémère on a tall stage reminiscent of '80s runway shows where the models were raised above the audience. Their looks, on the other hand, were an ode to the '90s with a throwback to Chanel's classic black-and-white swimwear clad with chain-link waist belts that younger generations have searched endlessly for [3] on the likes of Depop, The RealReal, and What Goes Around Comes Around.
Virginie Viard explained that she was inspired particularly by black-and-white portraits, enlisting famed fashion photographers Inez & Vinoodh to take shots of the house muses (Lily-Rose Depp, Jennie Kim of Blackpink, and Quannah Chasinghorse, who also modelled in the show) holding cameras as a teaser for the event. "Fashion is about clothes, models and photographers. Karl Lagerfeld used to photograph the CHANEL campaigns himself. Today, I call upon photographers. I love the way that they see CHANEL. It supports and inspires me," the designer wrote in the show notes.
Image Source: Getty / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff [4]
Sure enough, even more friends and family joined Depp, Kim, and Chasinghorse to sit front row, including Looking For Alaska's Kristine Froseth [5], Soo Joo Park, and Kristen Stewart [6], who will be outfitted in costumes from Chanel for her upcoming portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer [7]. Read on to see the lead-up and debut of Chanel SS22, which culminates with colourful butterfly prints on breezy chiffon pieces that definitely set the mood — just in case you weren't transported back to the right decade already.
Kristen Stewart at the Chanel Spring/Summer 2022 Show
Lily-Rose Depp at the Chanel Spring/Summer 2022 Show
Jennie Kim at the Chanel Spring/Summer 2022 Show
Kristine Froseth at the Chanel Spring/Summer 2022 Show
Soo Joo Park at the Chanel Spring/Summer 2022 Show
