As winter’s ice thaws, chirps of a luminary season begin to surface, leading footwear down a higher, less conventional path. This spring, the garden of CHANEL blooms a new platformed, heeled sandal, stepping beyond tradition. Spotted first, thirteenfold, on the pink pampered carpets of CHANEL’s SS25 runway, models flocked through an enormous opulent white birdcage in tweed heels and twinning ready-to-wear sets.

As a perched Riley Keogh sang and swung from above, the collection recalled a moment when a young Gabrielle Chanel received such a cage from her seamstress—a memory previously referenced in a ‘90s CHANEL advertisement by Jean-Paul Goude starring Vanessa Paradis. The platform shoe, seen above, embodies the house’s classic elements, translated into a freshly relatable language, to make way for an all-new contemporary Coco.

CHANEL’s tweed fabric has been reborn from the 1960s suit, into a whimsy springing sandal, decorated with a collection of pearl-adorned button-esque embellishments and double-C jewels. In a dreamy, seasonally suited robin egg blue, the heels are enchanting and spirited with the essence of Coco, both youthful and timeless. Including a velcro fastened ankle strap and a myriad of heel heights and tweed fabrics for your preference, the Spring 2025 CHANEL girl is one of comfort and intention.

This story appears in the pages of V153: now available for purchase!

Fashion Editor Anna Trevelyan

Text Taylor Richards

Illustration by Mahboubeh Absalan