Virginie Viard (born 1962) is a French fashion designer who has been the creative director of

Chanel Chanel ( , ) is a French high-end luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris. Chanel specializes in women's ready-to-wear, luxury goods, and accessories and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear. Chanel is ...

since 2019.

Early life

Viard grew up in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

. Her father is a ski champion turned surgeon; her maternal grandparents were silk manufacturers. Viard studied at Le Cours Georges, a fashion school in Lyon, where she specialized in film and theatrical costume. She spent a year in London.

Career

Viard began her career as an assistant to

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

Dominique Borg. In 1987, Viard joined

where she worked in embroidery. Thereafter, she followed Karl Lagerfeld to Chloé. Viard left Chloé with Lagerfeld in 1997, returning to Chanel studioJoanne Fu, editor (may 6 2019) �
Chanel's Resort 2020
published by Vogue (magazine), Vogue - accessed 2020-02-15
"Resort"
- accessed 2020-02-15 **https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/resort-2020/chanel **http://www.danskmagazine.com/direction/review-chanel-resort-2020/ published by DANSK, DANSK Magazine **https://wwd.com/fashion-news/shows-reviews/gallery/chanel-resort-1203122668/ published by Women's Wear Daily, WWD as director of the fashion design studio. In 2000, she became director of Chanel’s creation studio, where she oversaw the haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessories collections. She worked closely with Lagerfeld on all 10 collections that Chanel produces each year. Beginning with the cruise 2019 show in late 2018, Chanel had Viard take a bow with Lagerfeld after the show, and, in January, she appeared solo at the end of the brand’s two haute couture shows, with the brand explaining that Lagerfeld was “tired.” She was appointed artistic director of Chanel fashion house in Paris from 2019, following Lagerfeld's death. Viard's first solo collection was in Chanel's ''Resort'' / ''Cruise 2020 show'', held in the Grand Palais, on May 3, 2019. Lauren Alexis Fisher (may 3 2019) �
chanel resort 2020 show
published by Harpers Bazaar 2020 - accessed 2020-02-15, sourced from Kristen Stewart, with Barry Samaha (February 12, 2020) �
"Virginie is a punk rocker"
published by Harpers Bazaar 2020 - accessed 2020-02-15
"Cruise"
- accessed 2020-02-15 **https://www.chanel.com/en_GB/fashion/collection/cruise-2019-20.html published by

Other activities

Viard designed the costumes for Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ''Three Colours: Blue'' (1993) and was in charge of the wardrobe for ''Three Colours: White'' (1994). In 2015, when Lagerfeld accepted the role of creative director of the Hyères Festival, Viard presided over the fashion jury.

Personal life

Viard has four siblings: Arnaud, Françoise, Marianne and Benjamin. Arnaud (born 1965) is a screenwriter and actor.

References

Bibliography

Cruise 2019/20 Show - Cruise 2019/20
- accessed 2020-02-15

External links

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