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Fall-Winter 2016/17 Ready-to-Wear collection

"I like the idea of riding boots with evening dresses, and all the skirts that can be closed or opened." Karl Lagerfeld

"Clearly, Chanel had a sense for the visual impact of white, enjoying the contrast it provided with the bronzed skin that she had made so fashionable since her earlier holidays on the Riviera. "A very white earring on the lobe of a well-tanned ear delights me" she remarked to Paul Morand, and then described to him how she had watched a group of American girls swimming in the sea at the Venice Lido. "How much more beautiful these young women would be … if they had dipped their pearls into the waves, into the sea from which they first came ; and how brightly their jewellery would glitter if worn on a skin bronzed by the sun…"

Excerpt from "Chanel Her Life" by Justine Picardie, Steidl, 2011.

Karl Lagerfeld produced a fashion series for the 20th anniversary of Korean Vogue. In this editorial, Chanel's artistic director stages the Fall‑Winter 2016/17 collection.

The exhibition "The Woman Who Reads" is taking place in Venice at the Ca’ Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art, from September 17, 2016 to January 8, 2017.



The seventh edition of Culture Chanel presents the creative universe of Gabrielle Chanel through the prism of her relationship with reading, writing and poetry. From the ancient Greeks to the modern poets, from Plato to Cocteau, Chanel’s well-stocked library reveals the books and writers that inspired her work. Throughout her life, these tomes fueled her imagination, shaping her personality and teaching her how to achieve a form of permanence in her own vision of the world.

Some 350 pieces will go on display in Venice, reflecting, much like a library, the aesthetic language of Mademoiselle Chanel. The exhibition brings together writings as well as dedications, archival material, photographs, paintings, drawings and art pieces from her Paris apartment.

Conceived and designed by Jean‑Louis Froment, who has curated the event since 2007, Culture Chanel defines itself as a "collection of exhibitions" relating, through various themes, the history of Gabrielle Chanel and of her House.

Ca' Pesaro
September 17, 2016 – January 8, 2017

Santa Croce, 2076

30135 Venice

Fall-Winter 2016/17 Ready-to-Wear collection

The Fall-Winter 2016/17 Ready-to-Wear collection is available in boutiques.

Fall-Winter 2016/17 Ready-to-Wear