Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections

Coco Chanel invented modernity. She replaced corsets with jersey, bows with simplicity, ostentation with elegance, and in doing so changed not just fashion but what it means to dress as a woman in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Under Karl Lagerfeld, who took over the house in 1983, Chanel became the most influential fashion house in the world — simultaneously a shrine to the original Chanel aesthetic and a laboratory for its continuous reinvention.

Chanel Catwalk presents every collection from the house’s reopening through the most recent season, with runway photography, detail shots, and commentary that traces the development of the Chanel aesthetic across nearly a century. The visual archive alone makes this an indispensable reference.

The essential Chanel compendium — for fashion lovers, students, and collectors. Published by Thames & Hudson.