Chanel Creative Director, Virginie Viard was inspired by the simplicity of the 1959 film ‘Testament of Orpheus’, made by Gabrielle [Coco] Chanel’s close friend Jean Cocteau. In her own words:

The simplicity, the precision and the poetry of Cocteau’s film made me want to create a very clean collection, with a very distinct two-tone, made up of bright white and deep black. Echoing the extreme modernity of Cocteau’s film, I wanted something quite rock. Lots of fringes, in leather, beads and sequins, t-shirts bearing the face of the model Lola Nicon like a rock star, worn with tweed suits trimmed with wide braids, and pointed silver Mary-Janes. A look that recalls as much the modernity of the sixties as that of punk – Virginie Viard