Riley Keough became a Chanel ambassador with the release of the brand’s Spring/Summer 2024 campaign shot in Hyères, in the heart of the South of France.

Fast forward to the final day of October’s recent Paris Fashion Week. Keough closed the Chanel show, emerging in a fluttering cape to sing Prince’s ‘When Doves Cry’, perching on a swing in the giant birdcage serving as a key fashion show prop.

ELLE UK’s Laura Antonia Jordan describes the vignette as a perfectly-composed metaphor for Keough’s life: glamorous, big, surreal, in the middle of everything but [also]separate from it, with an undercurrent of sadness [‘How can you just leave me standing, alone in a world that’s so cold?’].

Natasha Wray styles Keough in the all-Chanel fashion story lensed by Olivia Malone [IG].

Today’s focus is new memoir ‘From Here to the Great Unknown — co-written by the now-passed Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, and Presley family daughter/granddaughter Riley Keough.

It is, as Keough writes, ‘a human story in what I know is an extraordinary circumstance’.

Not carrying the Presley name is a burden removed from her shoulders. She is the daughter of singer Danny Keough and not her mother’s tempestuous 108-day ‘hurricane marriage’ to Nicolas Cage!

As a non-addict ‘in a family full of addicts’, surrender is some- thing she [Riley] has come to terms with. ‘You can’t do anything. You can’t. And I think I spent so much of my life going, “OK, now I’m going to try this, now I’m going to try this”, and nothing worked,’ she says, of trying to help others get sober.

This editorial ends on a note of hope. Prepare for several Riley Keough interview/Chanel fashion stories in the coming weeks. ‘I think for me hope is a choice,’ Tupelo’s mom explains.

‘And I am much more inspired by the idea of being hopeful, and I would rather live in that headspace. There’s so much evidence of beauty and magic in this world, too; it’s certainly hard, there’s a lot of suffering in this world – you turn on the television and you can watch it, or you can be living it. But I think that life is about both things. Hope is part of it and surrender is part of it and suffering is part of it. I think it’s accepting the complexity of life and why we’re here. We’re here to experience something complicated, not just one thing.’