From the early days of flapper fringe and the invention of the little black dress, onto other memorable moments like Karl Lagerfeld's rise, the era-defining supermodels of the 1990s, and fresh modern faces such as Gigi Hadid and Binx Walton, and Virginie Viard's new vision, the brand has held the attention of fashionable fans.

Ahead of Chanel's latest show, revisit the 100-some-odd years of Chanel for a dose of nostalgia and fashion inspiration alike. After Karl Lagerfeld, who was at the helm of Chanel starting in 1983, passed away in 2019, Virginie Viard ushered in a new era for the label - one that's arguably still being defined.įashion month this year is unequivocally unlike any other due to the Coronavirus, which makes 2020 an apt time to reflect on the past and also imagine a new future. The history of Chanel from begging to recent runways spans over a century and serves as a reflection of societal shifts as significant as world wars and as nuanced as music movements like grunge. If modelling ever happens to not work out for Gigi Hadid, she's definitely got a career in security. Picture: Victor Boyko/Getty Images By Jazmin Duribe jazminduribe Gigi really said, 'Your name's not down, you're not coming in'. Dressed in a black and white tweed outfit topped with a black hat, the spectator climbed. Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the Chanel Womenswear Spring/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. Since its founding in 1910, the Parisian brand has become a household name thanks to its era-defining designs, signature fragrances, and highly-coveted accessories - not to mention its elaborately staged runway shows. A crasher stormed the runway at Chanel’s spring 2020 presentation Tuesday morning at the Grand Palais. Gisele Bündchen has had many appearances at the early Victoria’s Secret lingerie fashion shows, but one of her most memorable walks happened in 2002 when the model was ambushed by PETA protesters as she modeled a red and black lingerie set.The house of Chanel is the kind of storied label that requires no introduction. Gisele Bündchen Faces PETA Protesters at Victoria’s Secret’s Fashion Show

PETA has made several protests during fashion week over the industry’s usage of fur, including the Dior fall 2003 show where a protester jumped onto the stage with a sign that read “Fur Shame.” The protester was pulled off the stage by security guards.

The following week, Baron Cohen crashed Stella McCartney’s show, sitting in the audience dressed in a leather jacket and jeans with a red thong poking out, according to British Vogue. The actor was escorted off the runway and arrested. Sacha Baron Cohen crashes the runway at the Agatha Ruiz de La Prada Spring/Summer 2009 fashion collection ASSOCIATED PRESSĪctor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his eccentric characters like Borat and Ali G, crashed two runway shows in 2008 as the titular character in his “Bruno” movie, which he was filming at the time.īaron Cohen first crashed the Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada spring 2009 show, where he wore a Velcro suit with several garments and shoes attached to him. A Streaker at Prabal Gurung’s Fall 2014 Show The cat joined models as they took their finale walk, strutting in the opposite direction amid the runway’s fiery backdrop of candles and flaming braziers. A Cat on the Dior Catwalkĭior’s resort 2020 show in Morocco was a literal catwalk, thanks to a stray cat that made its way onto the runway. Presenting these struggles as props for selling clothes in today’s capitalist climate is vulgar, unimaginative and offensive to the millions of people around the world affected by these issues.” 4. “It is in bad taste for Gucci to use the imagery of and outfits alluding to mental patients, while being rolled out on a conveyor belt as if a piece of factory meat. “I chose to protest the Gucci S/S 2020 runway show as I believe, as many of my fellow models do, that the stigma around mental health must end,” they wrote in an Instagram post. The protest was spurred by the fact that Tan-Jones - who identifies as nonbinary - was among 21 other models who sported Gucci looks that resembled straightjackets while walking down a catwalk that looked like a conveyer belt. While not technically a runway crasher, model Ayesha Tan-Jones made headlines when they walked the Gucci spring 2020 show and held up their hands to show the message, “Mental health is not fashion.” Gucci RTW Spring 2020 Giovanni Giannoni/WWD

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