How can a building influence the design and aesthetic value of a fashion collection? How can architecture overcome its solid factuality and transmute into a creative force able to penetrate wearable style and inform high-end seaming techniques? CHANEL’s latest Métiers d’Art collection honors these questions with a clear answer. Presented at the Le19M, the newly opened building devoted to the artisans of the House, this collection elevates urban style to an exquisite metropolitan height of fashion superiority.

Just like the building’s façade, the clothes indulge in a “dialogue” with linear structures and intricate, web-like forms. A column coat with the tweed pockets, heavy and colorful knits, tweed jackets in different lengths, double-C cardigans and pleated mini skirts (an elaborate work by Maison Lognon), flared jeans and joggers induct us into a world where ease and casualness unite with upscale sophistication and one-of-a-kind luxury. Graffiti style embroidery, sequins and a sprinkle of “logomania” render the collection a bit more instagrammable than usual, showing everyone the brand’s resonance, as well as Virginie Viard’s ability to fathom the needs of every demographic and deliver stylishness in every possible form. Sparkly embellishments on bags and dresses, needlework patterns and lavish jewels capture the eye and mesmerize the senses.

Expertise is what distinguishes high fashion from high street fashion. CHANEL’s need to honor those select few who give fashion its artistic dimension through their talent and hard work is a commitment towards the very spirit of creation. It’s thanks to Lesage, Montex, Lemarié, Lognon, Goosens, Maison Michel, and Massaro, under CHANEL’s auspices, that fashion keeps giving us reasons to dream.