Chanel's creative director, Virginie Viard [1], continues to bring the famed fashion house into a youthful and experimental new era. While always paying homage to the brand's signature boxy bouclé skirt suits, the Fall/Winter 2020 collection seemed to reference Anna Wintour's first ever cover for American Vogue — the 1988 November issue, featuring model Michaela Bercu and photographed by Peter Lindbergh [2].
That iconic '88 Vogue cover had Bercu styled in a black Christian Lacroix [3] Couture Fall 1988 jacket with a large, multicolor beaded cross on the center of the bust. A very similar beaded cross design is referenced heavily throughout Viard's collection for Chanel Fall 2020.
Many of the new season bouclé co-ordinating sets featured small beaded crosses on the center of the bust, as well as multicolor beaded cross necklaces, bracelets, and details on embellished pouch bags [4]. Wintour's '88 cover shoot might have positioned Lacroix's jacket firmly in fashion history, but Chanel Fall 2020 also referenced its own Spring 1994 designs by Karl Lagerfeld [5]. Fall 2020 included similar beaded brooches, and bouclé bustiers once worn by Naomi Campbell [6] and Claudia Schiffer in the '90s and now modeled by this generation's runway darlings Gigi Hadid and Kaia Gerber.
Ahead, take a closer look at Chanel Fall/Winter 2020.
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