Following Beijing, The Little Black Jacket photo exhibition will open in Shanghai on June 21st.

Nib Building, Rock Bund
14 Huqiu Road, Shanghai
June 21st - July 7th, 10am - 7pm (until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays)
Free admission

More information on www.thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com

Soundtrack: Andrew Blaney "Firefly Colours"

Opening night of the new London flagship boutique
Opening on Wednesday, June 12th at 158-159 New Bond Street

Photos by Richard Young

The Little Black Jacket photo exhibition arrives in Beijing on June 19th.

From June 19th to July 7th
Workshop, 751D - Park
2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Beijing
10am - 7pm
Free admission

More information on www.thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com

Soundtrack: Andrew Blaney "String Vortex"

Emma Watson wore a dress from the Fall-Winter 2013/14 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Behind the scenes video of the Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art campaign with Tilda Swinton
The campaign was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld at the Château d'Ecouen in December 2012.

Soundtrack: Richard Beddow "Blossom"

1910, Gabrielle Chanel opened her first hat shop at 21 rue Cambon in Paris. Her simple and elegant wide-brimed hats contrasted with the complicated structures of her competitors. When in 1915 Guillaume Apollinaire dedicated the calligram poem "Reconnais-toi" to Louise de Coligny-Châtillon, it represented the woman he was enamoured with, and who was one of his muses, wearing a wide-brimmed hat. The invention of the calligram is a movement towards abstraction: with the letters of the alphabet, Apollinaire drew the calligram featuring what the outspread words were referring to.

“Reconnais-toi
Cette adorable personne c'est toi
Sous le grand chapeau Canotier
Oeil
Nez
La bouche
Voici l'ovale de ta figure
Ton cou exquis
Voici enfin l'imparfaite image de ton buste adoré
Vu comme à travers un nuage
Un peu plus bas c'est ton coeur qui bat”

Culture Chanel exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo until June 5th
13 avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris
Entrance: 2, rue de la Manutention
Opening hours: from 12 noon to 12 midnight every day except Tuesday
Free admission

www.5-culturechanel.com

Guillaume Apollinaire, “Reconnais-toi” poem to Louise de Coligny-Chatillon, February 9th 1915
© BHVP/Roger Viollet

Alicia Vikander and Amira Casar at the 2013 amfAR Cinema Against Aids Gala hosted at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc.

Alma Jodorowsky on the red carpet for the screening of "Behind the Candelabra", a film by Steven Soderbergh, at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.

Milla Jovovich wore a dress from the Spring-Summer 2013 Haute Couture collection for the screening of "Blood Ties" at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.

Alicia Vikander, Jessica Chastain, Paz Vega, James Franco, Alma Jodorowsky, Marine Vacth, Gaspard Ulliel and Milla Jovovich at the Vanity Fair & Chanel Dinner.
The dinner took place during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival at Tetou Restaurant in Cannes.