"Skip After Karl": Virginie Viard Probes Her Brutal Chanel Eviction
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In "Un regard, Une vie chez Chanel" (Éditions Stock), the seamstress shows an unexpected transparency in the fashion industry and delivers the reasons for this fall, one of the most brutal of the last mercatos that sees her being "unplugged" on the eve of a parade she has yet prepared. "It is a whole that makes that, suddenly, it no longer works", says, during an interview at the AFP, the designer, who entered as an intern at Chanel in 1987 and …
After being abruptly dismissed as artistic director of Chanel in 2024, the designer – who succeeded the famous media-savvy Karl Lagerfeld following his death in 2019 – is breaking her silence. In a new book, she counts the shock of her ousting, her time at the luxury fashion house and especially her long relationship with the German designer.
Two years after her fulminating departure from Chanel, the firm's former creative director breaks her silence in a book of memories where she reveals the coldness of her dismissal and the jealousy that her predecessor, Karl Lagerfeld, fed.
In a book, the designer Virginie Viard looks back at her brutal eviction from Chanel's. But also and above all about her relationship with Karl Lagerfeld, to whom she had succeeded. Exclusive interview.
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