Few collections are as anticipated for Chanel lovers as the brand’s December pre-fall presentation. Better known as Metiers d’Art, the collection celebrates Chanel artisans’ incredible skills and craftsmanship.
Since 2002, Metiers d’Art has brought together expert craftspeople, from embroiderers and feather workers to goldsmiths, pleaters, shoemakers, milliners, and more. The collection’s bags feature some of the year’s most ornate details and artful elements. It goes without saying that pieces from Metiers d’Art are coveted year after year by Chanel collectors.
Chanel Heads to Hangzhou
This year, Chanel brought Metiers d’Art to Hangzhou, China, presenting the collection at dusk on the city’s legendary West Lake. Overall, the collection was incredibly dreamy and romantic, offering an air of sophistication that comes with Metiers d’Art’s unique attention to detail.
Ready-to-wear includes floor-sweeping coats in tweed, leather, and silk, matching sets in tweed, knits, and more. Classic Chanel tweed and intricate floral embroideries, feathers, beading, and more are emphasized. A knit set bearing a bird-and-flower motif revisits Gabrielle Chanel’s Coromandel lacquer screens. Coco Chanel was an avid collector of Coromandel screens, and the collection includes many references to her antique Coromandel screens.
As for the bags, Metiers d’Art 2025 includes mostly wearable pieces, more so than in years past. While a couple of ornate minaudières were carried, as a whole bags were very consumer-friendly. Embellished Classic Flaps sat alongside leather bags both new and old. Cargo shoppers in tweed and metallic leather gave way to tiny chain-around minis, pillowy satin chain bags, and more.
View more from the collection via Chanel and check out the bags below.
The Bags of Chanel Pre-Fall 2025
images via Chanel
The silk bags remind me of my pillowcases 🫠 I’m ready for a nap…
LOL!
lately, I’ve looked at Chanel’s offerings (bags and clothes), and everything just seems dated. Not classic. Just dated.
Boring. Uninspired.
That mini moon shaped bag reminds me of the Songmont Luna in its evening/clutch iteration… and at least you could unclip the strap to gain access inside the bag. You can’t do that with this… did designers not learn this lesson with the Jodie bag?!
Chanel is machine made and is very pricey for the quality you are receiving as a consumer. Not saying I won’t buy a bag but lately I’ve been leaning toward Hermes in all honesty. Handmade and made to last. Both collections are somewhat uninspired.
Not all Hermès bags are hand-made.
I Concur with your assessment
Looks like Chanel used a few designs from Stella McCartney and other designers nothing original here, boring.
Love the East-West clutch!
I like it too, but it just looks like Andiamo knock off. I’d expect from Chanel not to copy other brands so bluntly
I love that doctor looking bag with the reissue chain and mademoiselle lock. Metiers d’Art collections are some of my favorite, always giving us drool-worthy bags!
The reversible looking logo jacket in the headline photo, bet it’s a fortune but gosh I love it!
I hate it