Designer Virginie Viard offers a rare account of her career at the top of Chanel

After being abruptly dismissed as artistic director of Chanel in 2024, the designer – who succeeded the famously media-savvy Karl Lagerfeld following his death in 2019 – is breaking her silence. In a new book, she recounts the shock of her ousting…
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