Paris Fashion Week: Chanel and Sacai SS27 highlights
Another very long day in Paris began at 10am with a lovely show from Japanese label Sacai and ended more than 10 hours later with Chanel. Those two brands couldn’t be more different, yet both are rooted in real clothes imbued with just the right amount of fantasy. For spring/summer 2027, Chanel’s artistic director Matthieu Blazy turned the Grand Palais into a starry sky with a moon surrounded by flocks of white birds with their wings spread as if about to take flight. Models walked on an...
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