C.harlotte Casiraghi walks decisively mounting her horse on the catwalk. This is how the Chanel SS 2022 haute couture show begins, with the royal Monegasque, ambassador of the Maison, in the saddle.
For Virginie Viard, creative director, the inspiration is very clear: the world of horse riding, the precision and the rules it entails but also the countryside and the bucolic atmosphere. And that’s how it is the hair is collected in very rigid chignons or supported very delicate flower crowns while the make-up focuses on an eye-liner spread out to form a mask. For modern amazons.
Chanel Haute Couture SS 2022, from the ephemeral world of horse riding
At the Grand Palais Éphémère, the “ephemeral” palace which is replacing the Grand Palais under restoration, the elegant world of horse riding takes place. In a Chanel key. Inside a space designed by the French artist Xavier Veilhan, between natural and cream shades on which black stands out, the Haute Couture SS 2022 collection is a tribute to riding competitions, including caps, obstacle courses and screwed jackets.
And if the rules of the beauty look are strict in the field, the situation on the catwalk is different. The make-up curated by Lucia Pica focuses entirely on deep black eyeliner used as a brush, the strokes are so wide while thehairstylist Damien Boissinot alternates very elegant chignon with very composed ponytails.
Charlotte Casiraghi on the catwalk of Chanel Haute Couture SS 2022 on her horse (Getty)
The beauty look of the modern rider
The one conceived by Virginie Viard is a modern Amazon and the beauty look can only adapt accordingly. On an imperceptible basis, it literally stands out, eyeliner in a new guise.
Putting aside the classic subtle features, the Creative Make up and Color Designer uses it as a real felt-tip pen drawing more of the masks surrounding the gaze. Futuristic, between geometric and sinuous lines, they end well beyond the eyebrow arch.
“What could be the most suitable hairstyle if not a ponytail?Damien Boissont seems to have wondered.
Strict but romantic, the hair designed by the French hairstylist stiff ponytails alternate, with side line drawn millimetrically and held by abundant passes of gel, with loose hair as if they were in the wind to recreate that sense of freedom that one feels when galloping in the countryside.
Only concession? A very delicate crown of candid white flowers on the bucolic wedding dress. Because rigor in horse riding is a must.
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