Every Look From Chanel Fall/Winter 2021

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For its Fall/Winter 2021 collection, Chanel teamed up with legendary photography duo Inez and Vindooh.

The film for the collection is set in Castel, a nightclub known to attract artists. Creative Director of Chanel and the late Karl Lagerfeld’s successor Virginie Viard explains, “I like Castel so much for its many salons, the spiral staircase, its bar, the journey through this venue, its little house style, where the models can get changed, dressed and undressed, do their make-up together, and have fun like a girls night in. It’s very sensual.”

That sensuality reads through the film. The camera follows the models in a way that feels unobtrusive. Inez and Vindooh’s direction gives the sense that they’d like to be a fashion fly on the wall, observing the models as they move throughout the Castel sitting at tables or dreamily staring out of windows while having a cup of tea.

This collection was inspired by contrasts. We see that even in moments when the models look directly into the camera almost as if to say, “I knew you were here the whole time.” It feels like a wink and a nod to the engineering of fashion films, the processes we are undertaking now to communicate to our audience.

Chanel FW21 wants to embrace the athletic and cozy ambiance of ski holidays while remaining true to the chic Parisian aesthetic that is so widely sought after in fashion. “Contrasts between volumes, materials and spirit,” as Virginie Viard puts it. A classic Chanel tweed coat is paired with black, chunky faux fur boots. Ski suits are combined with feminine and delicate strappy sandals.

It’s a tale of two worlds and we want to live in both of them.

Check out the entire Chanel Fall/Winter 2021 collection here.

Daisy Edgar-Jones Wears Daisy-Covered Chanel Haute Couture For Her First Golden Globes

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This year, Daisy Edgar-Jones’s Golden Globes will involve more of an actual party than most.

After shooting through the night for five days in a row for her upcoming thriller Fresh, the Normal People star will be celebrating her nomination at her Vancouver apartment with her on-set bubble. “It’s just crazy – I’m properly pinching myself,” the 22-year-old says over the phone of her first “awards ceremony from the waist up”, which sees her nominated for Best Actress in a Limited Series. “There’s a big camera set up in my living room. The costume team from Fresh are coming over to help fit my dress, and someone else from the set is curating a little ‘backdrop’. One friend is bringing champagne flutes; another is bringing chocolate-covered strawberries…”

Read more: Golden Globes 2021: Best Dressed On The Red Carpet

But back to the dress. “It’s the most beautiful dress I’ve ever seen,” she says. “I had a couple of rails to go through via FaceTime with my stylist Nicky Yates. All of the gowns were amazing but this one is just special. It’s Chanel, haute couture, and covered head-to-toe in these embroidered daisies – which is obviously fitting.” As for her plans for her much-imitated hair? “Because the dress is so incredible, we’re keeping my hair and make-up quite fresh and simple,” she explains. “Dewy skin and a loose up-do.”

“It’s the most beautiful dress I’ve ever seen,” Edgar-Jones tells Vogue, wearing Chanel Haute Couture for the Golden Globes. © Instagram: @DaisyEdgarJones

Naturally, she’s thrilled to be recognised at the ceremony – although she wishes her co-star, Paul Mescal, had also received a nod. (Back in September, Mescal received an Emmy nomination, while Edgar-Jones missed out.) “Paul and I had a big old FaceTime,” she says with a laugh. “We’re such great friends now, and we’d just love to be able to be together somewhere and celebrate. Honestly, neither of us can still quite believe that we’ve been nominated for anything.”

Another reason Edgar-Jones is feeling excited? The long-awaited casting announcement for the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, which is being handled by the same creative team as Normal People. “It’s brilliant! The lovely Alison Oliver, who’s been cast as Frances, actually came on set a few times while we were filming Normal People, and I met her. She’s going to smash it out of the park. I wish I could be involved in any capacity, be an AD or something and fetch everyone cups of tea. It’s like there’s the Marvel universe, and the Sally Rooney universe. Maybe Marianne and Connell could wander past in the background of a scene.”

Edgar-Jones, however, will be far too busy with her own upcoming projects to reprise her role as Marianne anytime soon. As soon as she wraps production on Fresh, she heads directly to the set of Reese Witherspoon’s blockbuster adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, which will see her play the so-called marsh girl Kya. “I adore taking on literary characters,” Edgar-Jones notes. “The universe that Delia Owens has created is just phenomenal – as is the character of Kya: her strength, her resilience, her love of nature. To be able to go and just be in the marshes as her for the next few months feels like such a privilege.”

The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday March 9, 2021

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Q15: Who is this Yugoslav leader?

1 Which job features in a traditional British term for a strong cup of tea?

2 The name of which guitarist for the Shadows is Cockney rhyming slang for “starving”?

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