Chanel: The Jacket
This modern and comfortable garment, which combines masculine with feminine elements, is Gabrielle Chanel's answer to the style of the 1950s, which she felt was too constricting and unfavourable for women's lives.
Coco Chanel was inspired by men's fashion, more precisely by an Austrian men's jacket, and thus created the iconic tweed jacket that was soon worn by actresses such as Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Romy Schneider.
The jacket has become a famous element of the CHANEL style and is reinterpreted with each season.
Whether classically in an ensemble or "dressed down" with sneakers and jeans like Veronika Heilbrunner or Pernille Teisbaek, - the Chanel jacket is worn by international fashion celebrities in the most diverse combinations and somehow always looks elegant and cool at the same time.
For the Ready-to-Wear collection Spring-Summer 2020, Virginie Viard has reinterpreted the jacket in soft, light tweed. With its different silhouettes it looks like a playsuit, a short pleated dress or is decorated with frill collars and cuffs. This season, the tweed jacket in the block colour, two-tone, iridescent, striped or plaid versions features a lining in vibrant shades, decorated with jewel buttons or trimmed with a sequined border. Worn with shorts, Bermuda shorts or a flared skirt, it reinterprets the iconic suit of the house.
