It was a Paris Fashion Week full of rumors. The shows took place as Chanel, perhaps the most famous Parisian fashion house, looks for a creative director in the wake of Virginie Viard’s departure earlier this year. For many attendees, a question hung in the air: What if this designer took over at Chanel?

Chanel took to the Grand Palais for its spring-summer runway show on Tuesday, marking its return to the soaring glass and steel monument with an eclectic collection of sparkly tweed ensembles and a singing performance from actor Riley Keough.

Models present creations from the SpringSummer 2025 ready-to-wear collections by French fashion house Chanel during

Traditional Ukrainian crafts at Ruslan Baginskiy; trompe l’oeil denim at Chanel's Barrie; air-conditioned garments at Anrealage and color changing bags at Delvaux.

Galambos – whose favourite shows included Rabanne and Sacai – notes her key trends from Paris as sheer “everything, “embellishments, from sequins to brocade, exaggerated proportions and super high heels.

Chanel might still be without a creative director, but the spring/summer 2025 catwalk show will always be a memorable one as it marks the house's return to the Grand Palais after four years away. The landmark – which has served as the location for the brand's catwalk shows for decades – recently underwent restoration,

Chanel returned to the Grand Palais -- scene of the late Karl Lagerfeld's most legendary triumphs -- for the first time in four years Tuesday with a birdcage-themed Paris Fashion Week show that recalled the label's past glories.

The German-born designer Karl Lagerfeld, a key player man in the revival of the house of Chanel, has always been a fan of biting little comments but also of a form of excess. In the 1990s, when the Parisian fashion shows were mainly held at the Carrousel du Louvre,