All The Bags And Shoes From CHANEL's Fall/Winter 2022 Tweed-Inspired Collection

Tweed is obviously the fabric of choice for, and the one we most associate with, the house of CHANEL. So what happens when it’s the key inspiration behind the CHANEL Fall-Winter 2022/23 Ready-to-Wear collection? Everything, quite literally. Soft yet durable, elegant and edgy, feminine and masculine, all at the same time, Virginie Viard puts forth an entire collection dedicated to tweed, a multi-faceted fabric that allows for infinite combinations of colours and materials.

“Devoting the entire collection to tweed is a tribute,” says Virginie Viard. “We followed the footsteps of Gabrielle Chanel along the River Tweed, to imagine tweeds in the colours of this landscape. Like that of a long pink coat mottled with blue and purple, or a burgundy suit with a delicate gold shimmer.”

She further elaborates on the founder’s walks through the Scottish countryside, and the story of how Gabrielle Chanel was drawn to, and started borrowing, tweed jackets worn by her lover, the Duke of Westminster; she would then gather flowers and ferns that she was inspired by during her long walks, as references for the local artisans that were manufacturing CHANEL’s tweeds.

The story of tweed continues, now a contemporary fabric and house code, as imagined by Viard — blazers, pantsuits and skirts are paired with long socks and pointed kitten pumps. For the accessories, we see plenty of shiny, smooth contrasts to the very textured tweed, whether in the form of a flap bag-like backpack or mini bags, along with boots in black or beige rubber.

Then again, this is CHANEL’s chance to go big on texture too. Universally-loved flap bags come in all sorts of tweed, from an acid-toned pink cashmere tweed with gold hardware, and matching tweed-on-tweed CHANEL 22s and flap bags, to quilted shearling messenger bags. Ahead, all the bags and shoes we find hard to resist.

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