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After Chanel, Virginie Viard Finds Her Voice

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In an interview with WWD, Virginie Viard talks about her departure from Chanel, life after Karl Lagerfeld and finding the confidence to begin again.

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Two years after her surprise departure from Chanel, Virginie Viard has spoken openly for the first time about the end of her collaboration with the French house, as well as her special relationship with Karl Lagerfeld. For more than three decades, Virginie Viard has been one of the most important, yet most discreet, figures in the world of fashion. As a close collaborator of Karl Lagerfeld and then as artistic director of Chanel, she found herse…

Karl Lagerfeld often presented it as an indispensable presence: “My right arm...and my left arm,” he said. For the international press, however, he was almost invisible, even in his step as creative director of the maison. A mere trance between Karl and Matthieu Blazy. Virgine Viard, Chanel’s discreet former creative director, breaks her silence two years after her departure in ‘Un regard. Une vie chez Chanel’. A book that is not only an invitat…

Chanel's former artistic director confides in his career with Karl Lagerfeld, the wound of his departure and his life away from the workshops of the legendary French house.

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Vogue Paris broke the news on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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