Après-ski chic and cool clubbing vibes from Chanel for the young and young-at-heart

Après-ski is very much a main part of ski holidays, and it's a theme that inspired Chanel’s autumn-winter 2021 ready-to-wear collection by Virginie Vlard, with a '70s clubbing vibe.  

Showed via a video presentation on the Paris Fashion Week digital hub this season, the collection provided those of us missing our winter skiing a good reason to start planning for next year’s escape to the mountains, while reminiscing on the Parisian nightlife that many of us so sorely miss right now due to Covid-19 restrictions.  

Shot in the famous private nightclub Catel in Paris’ Saint-Germain-des-Prés by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the new collection included the favourite tweed boucle and chenille for coats and suits with the addition of fur gilets and matelassé ski jumpsuits and overalls, complete with Nordic sweaters and crystal-beaded dresses, finished with layers of gold and strands of pearl necklaces and gold chains, and furry après-ski moon boots. 

There are also sequined mini dresses and lurex suits, concluding with a gold trench coat to round-off the fun night out.

All photos from Chanel Autumn/Winter 2021 collection.

Lanvin's Autumn/Winter 2021 collection a couture tribute to Jeanne Lanvin

On the digital hub of Paris Fashion Week this season, Lanvin presents Joie de Vivre.

The video show on the Autumn/Winter 2021 ready-to-wear collection by the house of Lanvin - which was founded in 1889 by th visionary Jeanne Lanvin and now owned by the Chinese Fosun Fashion Group, is one of fun and glamour.  As creative director Bruno Sialelli has put it, it is one of “elegance and frivolity, of the past and a vision of the future rooted in optimism … looking backwards and forwards - drawing inspiration from the past, reinvented for the present, calibrated for the future."

In an interview with Vogue Business, Fosun Fashion Group chairman Joann Cheng says the Chinese owners are betting on China, e-commerce and accessories to bring back lustre to the revered French house.

Bruno Sialelli’s modern yet playful interpretations
for Spring 2021 collection, feature  prints inspired by
Parisian artist Erté - 
calling back the Art Déco references
from Jeanne Lanvin’s era. 
Photo from Lanvin's website.

Sialelli who joined Lanvin in early 2019 from the menswear division at Loewe is certainly looking ahead to a post-Covid world when we can all be happy and enjoy life again.

Filmed in the glamorous Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, which is currently closed due to the pandemic, the video features happy models, including cameo roles by the likes of Israeli actor Tom Mercier, rapper Eve and model Paloma Elsesser, dancing, celebrating and singing to Gwen Stefani’s upbeat Rich Girl, which will no doubt continue to ring in our heads for a good part of the day.

Whether customers' response will ring in the same upbeat tone for the illustrious heritage brand after a tumultuous few years remains to be seen.

To watch the Autumn/Winter 2021 video, click HERE.

Alexandre Vauthier's autumn winter 2021 womenswear has the modern woman well covered

 

The Autumn Winter 2021 womenswear capsule collection presented as static images by Alexandre Vauthier at Paris Fashion Week offers much to love for the woman emerging from lockdown and itching to hit the streets by day and clubs by night, and still feel comfortable in her own skin.

There’s the big oversize trenchcoat, the day suit, the fluffy woolly pullover in a shot of turquoise and the white shirt  and perfectly cut wool or crêpe coats and capes in off-white or camel.Shirt dresses and blouses with decorated jeans.

And when evening comes, there’s plenty of glamour in the form of a silver lamé pleated bustier dress, plissé lamé dresses with dramatic collar, paired with elaborately beaded jeans, or velvet, and standout pieces worked in sparkling fringes.

All photos courtesy of Alexander Vauthir/Paris Fashion Week.