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Models wear the Chanel spring/summer 2025 collection in Paris.

Chanel fills hottest job in fashion with young outsider

One of the most prestigious roles in global fashion has just been filled, as Chanel appointed 40-year-old designer Matthieu Blazy as its new artistic director.

  • Vanessa Friedman

May

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala, otherwise known as the Met Gala.

Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez in full bloom at Met Gala

The annual charity event for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, otherwise known as Anna Wintour’s Met Gala, is getting underway, drawing fashion’s A-listers.

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  • Leanne Italie

May 2023

Celebrities at the Met Gala.

Kidman, Rihanna shine at Met Gala

The worlds of fashion, Hollywood, sports and music collided at the extravaganza that this year honoured the late designer Karl Lagerfeld.

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  • Leanne Italie

August 2022

Bruno Pavlovsky: “Chanel is not about being big, it is about the ultimate luxury positioning.”

‘Everything is flying everywhere’: Chanel CEO on the boom in handbags

Key to the brand’s success is its ability to manage the fine line between exclusive and unavailable.

  • Lauren Sams

July 2021

Fashion designer Phoebe Philo at her Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection for Celine.

Cult designer Phoebe Philo is back, and women everywhere are cheering

The former creative director of Celine, who amassed an adoring following designing clothes for “real life”, has long harboured ambitions to run her own label.

  • Lauren Indvik

August 2020

Viewing the Dior retrospective at Melbourne’s NGV in virtual reality.

From haute couture kings to royalty: farewell to fashion’s front row

Across 14 years, Marion Hume has told the stories of most at the summit of the fashion industry. Now she tells hers.

  • Marion Hume

July 2019

Photographs of Karl Lagerfeld at his memorial service.

Karl Lagerfeld's parting gift to the world

As the world of fashion gathered one Parisian summer night to say goodbye to Karl Lagerfeld, Marion Hume realised the visionary had one last treasure to offer.

  • Marion Hume

April 2019

Pharrell Williams models the Chanel Paris Cosmopolite 2016/17 Metiers d’Art collection at the Ritz Paris.

Chanel releases capsule collection with Pharrell Williams

The musician and longtime friend of the house has created a gender-fluid collection for the womenswear label.

  • Lauren Sams

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