Story | Leslie Yip Boucher-Harris Photography | Chanel
The collection celebrates open horizons and winter classics-reimagined in natural shades of ecru, ivory, green and black. Tweed explores new textures—knitted, mohair and bouclé—while feathers mimic faux fur, and golden accents glimmer-like harvest sunlight.
Savoir-Faire: The Art of Wheat
When wheat ripens, it bows beneath its golden weight—a symbol of strength tempered by grace. For ChaneL, this emblem of luck and prosperity has long been woven into the Maison’s heritage, from Gabrielle Chanel’s rue Cambon apartment to its most exquisite creations.
In the Fall-Winter 2025/26 haute Couture collection, wheat is more than a motif—it is a manifesto of abundance and artistry. Through ChaneL’s Métiers d’art—Lemarié, Lesage and Goossens—it emerges as chiffon flounces, jewelled buttons, wedding-dress embroidery and chevron-like patterns and at its heart lies wheat: an enduring ChaneL code. – echoing a symbol that binds the house’s storied past with its luminous future. even the audience was welcomed with gilded wheat on each seat—a golden whisper of what was to come.
Goossens adorns with gold buttons featuring a braided effect, evoking basketwork and tweed weaving.
Wheat was an emblem dear to Mademoiselle Chanel. In her 31 rue Cambon apartment, it appeared in countless decorative details: a Goossens coffee table sculpted as a wheat sheaf, a Willy Fleur portrait of a lion clutching an ear of wheat, and a painted homage from Salvador Dalí.
White tweed top is inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s Spring-Summer 1970 collection. Lesage reinvents tweed with trompe-l’œil illusions of antique lace using braiding in ecru crêpe and silk ribbons.
Lemarié crowns necklines and hems with wheat ears crafted from feathers and silk taffeta.
A dark beige mohair tweed coatdress ripples like a harvest in motion. Lemarié crafts 500 wheat ears from silk taffeta and 23 feathers each, dyed and shaped by hand—500 hours of devotion for one garment. Woven into hems and sleeves, they breathe life into tweed, finished with Goossens’ buttons gleaming like grains of sunlit gold.
Night meets harvest glow: a black blouse embroidered by Lesage with sequined wheat ears and crystals, paired with pants edged in Lemarié’s flounced lace and chiffon, crushed and frayed by hand, shimmering with strass and navettes like dew on dark fields.
A bold dialogue between structure and shimmer: a black-and-white check tweed pea coat blooms with Lesage floral embroidery, while a gold lamé dress—painted with an abstract wheat field—glows beneath. Sequins in orange, yellow and pink add sunlit warmth to a silhouette steeped in Gabrielle Chanel’s love of lamé and nature’s poetry.
A high-collared chiffon coatdress, its flounces painted in gradients of black to wheat-gold, bears Lemarié’s hand-painted wheat ears—each layer a gesture of couture poetry.
