The Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week was the place to be.
Although A-listers flocked to fashion shows across the French capital over the past few days, Chanel’s Autumn-Winter 2024/2025. Tuesday’s ready-to-wear show was a blockbuster of sorts.
Brad Pitt and Penélope Cruz kicked off the show as they co-starred in a black-and-white short that paid homage to the French resort town of Deauville, around which the entire show was centered.
In the film, Pitt, 60, and Cruz, 49, recreated scenes from the classic, Oscar-winning 1966 French film. A man and a woman. The film’s director, Claude Lelouch, was also at the Chanel show and arrived with Cruz, who became an ambassador for the fashion house in 2018. Pitt was not at the womenswear show, but the actor has a storied history with the brand as the first male spokesperson for its iconic Chanel No. 5.
Deauville is where Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel opened the French luxury brand’s first store more than a century ago, and creative director Virginie Viard structured the entire show as a “homage to Deauville, the place that inspired Gabrielle Chanel to invent allure,” according to the website. Chanel page.
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Near the end of the show, Gigi Hadid made her grand entrance — her first appearance on the Fashion Week runway since closing the Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week in October.
Hadid, 28, wore a long black dress that was sheer below the waist with a pair of patent leather platform boots and a dramatic collection of bold gold jewelry, including two textured cuff bracelets and a layered gold necklace with several lockets. A thin black belt with a gold buckle sat around her waist, and she was holding a black Chanel bag in her hand as she walked. Hadid styled her hair with a black bow and white flower detail and tied it behind her head, hanging low on her back.
She re-shared several videos of her runway appearance on her Instagram Story after the show, writing over one video shared by Harper’s Bazaar France, “Bonjour @chanelofficial,” and adding “🩶” over another repost.
Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the Chanel Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 fashion show. during Paris Fashion Week on March 5, 2024.
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Fashion show autumn-winter 2024/2025. Ready-to-Wear consisted of “long, romantic silhouettes conceived by Virginie Viard that take their vivid or pastel hues from the ever-changing colors of the Deauville sky, along with brown and gold lamé,” according to the luxury fashion house’s website.
“A nod to the relationship between Planch de Deauville, the 7th Art and CHANEL, cinematic references punctuate the collection’s prints.”
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In addition to the star power on display and on the runway during the Chanel show, there were a few famous faces watching the action, including Zoey Deutch, Vanessa Paradis, Zazie Beetz, Margaret Qualley and Riley Keough.
The show also marked Deutch’s public debut of her dramatic new ‘do. She discovered the blonde pixie haircut — which she helped herself! — in preparation for her latest role as ’60s actress Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s upcoming film on Instagram on Monday.
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Penélope Cruz welcomes Chanel Creative Director Virginie Viard to the Chanel Fall/Winter 2024-2025 womenswear show.
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The transformation process took more than 16 hours for stylist Bridget Brager and celebrity colorist Tracey Cunningham.
“We wanted to find the perfect shade for Zoey’s upcoming role,” Cunningham shared in a statement to PEOPLE. “Our job was a natural for us, as most of the photos we could find of Jean were in black and white – but we decided on a soft, golden blonde color that really captures Jean’s essence.”
In Deutch’s post, she wrote “surprise surprise ✂️,” as she revealed the bold change.
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