GIRLS' NIGHT OUT

Virginie Viard artfully clashes ski holiday chic with Parisian cool at CHANEL’s Fall-Winter 2021/22 show, observes Manish Mishra

- Manish Mishra

CANEL’S creative director Virginie Viard’s free-spirited, gamine Parisian girl gang hit rue Princesse near Boulevard Saint-Germain with a gusto before taking the night club Chez Castel by storm. Sporting pronounced punk eyes, long chevron tweed coats, bare legs and voluminous boots in faux fur —all nonchalantly covered in layers of signature sautoir necklaces, they grooved to Diana Ross’ Do You Know Where You’re Going To. Exuding the late Stella Tennant’s decidedly punk attitude, they sauntered into Chez Castel, a living metaphor for hipness across generations—a place associated with icons such as Françoise Hardy, Françoise Sagan, Amanda Lear and Mick Jagger.