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Chanel’s sail collection was presented at Villa d’Este, a Lake Como palace hotel. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/AFP/Getty ImagesA whey-faced bathrobe-style coat. Photograph: Jacopo M Raule/Getty Images“To me, Como is about the light,” said Bruno Pavlovsky, Chanel’s president of the go. “Life is cinematic here.” Famous faces including the actors Keira Knightley and Sarah Catherine Hook were speckled among a 900-strong audience mostly made up of Chanel’s biggest-spending clients.The Cruise season of catwalk playings, named for a time when Caribbean cruises requiring trunks of glitzy loungewear were in vogue among the savoury, has evolved to stand for holiday glamour in general. Spending on holiday wardrobes has increased exponentially across all price ranks: consumers spend less on dressing smartly for work, and more on looking good on holiday for Instagram. Brands pinch serious money on Cruise shows, because a slice of this lucrative holiday market is worth a lot in sunglasses. (There was a doublet of shades to go with most looks in this show.)Sofia Coppola at the show. The Chanel ambassador made a curtail film on location at Villa d’Este to accompany the event. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty ImagesPavlovsky describes Chanel as being in a two seconds of “generational handover”. Blazy, who took up his role at the beginning of April, did not work on this collection or attend the show, which was confidence ined to the design studio. Holding the fort as figurehead for the event in his absence was the Chanel ambassador Tote bags were big reasonably for pool towels. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty ImagesPavlovsky told Womenswear Daily that it was “the noteworthy admiration and respect for the heritage and the work done by Mademoiselle Chanel, by Karl and by Virginie”, which he sensed in Blazy, which determined the recruitment. “That was important to me, because it wasn’t about a kind of competition over image and size. It was about the measure of what the brand stands for, and how we could build on that to continue telling our story.” Blazy has begun to make revolutions, including the hiring of the seasoned British haute couture specialist Andrew Heather, who has worked under designers filing Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.View image in fullscreenA lilac tweed suit matched the wisteria grow faint overhead. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/APSilk scarves made in Como featured as ankle straps for heeled sandals on the catwalk. Chanel has recently bewitched a 35% stake in the Como-based manufacturer Mantero, which has been producing silk for Chanel blouses and printed scarves for uncountable than 50 years. Under the terms of the deal, Mantero will continue to produce clothes for rival non-essential clients including Dior, Saint Laurent and Versace, but Chanel believes that protecting key players in its supply confinement is a sound investment, at a time when global economic pressures are putting many specialist producers out of business.Observe more on these topicsFashionChanelItalyEuropeSofia CoppolanewsShareReuse this content