Chanel 2023/24 autumn and winter senior ready-to-wear series press conference arrived as scheduled, the venue is still located in the temporary pavilion of the Grand Palais in Paris, which is decorated with giant camellia sculptures, this winter flower and the current romantic season.

"Camellia is not just a theme, it's a timeless, classic symbol of the brand," Virginia Vea said before her opening statement, smiling. "It feels reassuring and intimate to me. I love its softness and strength."

On the scene screen presented a unique sense of film promotional film, also projected in the white camellia flowers, became the focus of the audience.

The film is portrayed by brand ambassador Nana Komatsu and shot by Chanel's old friend photographer Inez & Vinoodh.

The focus of the whole show is obvious, is one of the classic elements of Chanel brand camellia.

However, what is different from the past is that in addition to the classic white camellia, red camellia has become the finishing touch.

The guests are also star-studded, the domestic representative is Liu Wen, Zhang Juning, Jing Boran, three old friends of the brand also wear 2023 "Chanel - Dakar" senior workshop series single products, although the style is different, which is the same elegant style.

"Camellias that bloom forever"

Since 1930, Gabrielle Chanel, the founder of the brand, has incorporated camellia flowers into the design of clothes and shoes.

This show will once again reshape the classic elements of this brand.

In the pre-show trailer, under the lens of Inez & Vinoodh, actor Nana Komatsu shows the tender and delicate nature of camellia flowers. With a surrealist image, he portrays the mysterious contrast of light and shadow, elegant posture and delicate face, which harmonize with the flowers.

Back on the runway, this winter flower was everywhere in the fall/winter ready-to-wear collections this season, sometimes transformed into a delightfully elaborate embellishing on pockets, coats and buttons, and sometimes transformed into a romantic print.

Among them, the camellia decoration decorated with long feathers is particularly impressive, dotted in various items such as knitwear, skirts, vests, etc. Most of the black clothing is the base color, and the other is flexible and elegant.

Hair accessories, earrings and necklaces and other accessories are also mostly presented in different gestures of camellia flowers, a closer look, each single product is not without highlighting the exquisite craftsmanship of Chanel.

The handbag series, which has always been the focus of the public, also gives people surprises. The brand's classic clamshell handbags and exquisite ball bags are decorated with camellia flowers, and most of the styles are also all-in-one for daily travel.

As you can see from the beginning, red camellia is another focus of this season, and the clothes interpreted by the models have gradually changed from black and white to magenta and positive red, and the color use of the series is just right, and the meaning is profound.

The popular color of 2023, magenta, has also become a major protagonist in the show this season, but this time Chanel presents in a more low-key way, with dark magenta as the main color, creating a more calm and connotation of the atmosphere, so that this originally flamboyant color can be better applied to daily wear.

The final positive red system is a more warm attitude, pushing the show atmosphere to the climax, abandoning the large-area presentation, most of the local decoration such as matching, accessories into the color, bright red has become the best ornament in the shape.

"Who are you, Polly Maggoo?"

Audiences interested in fashion may also find that an important inspiration for the show is the 1966 French film "Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?" directed by William Klein. .

Nana Komatsu's character in the film is exactly the same as Polly Maggoo, the main character in the film.

In the picture, she has a shoulder length hair with a full fringe and exaggerated eye makeup, sometimes interesting and sometimes immersed in fantasy, which perfectly interprets the unique visual style of this series of works.