Olivia Dean Wears One of Chanel’s Most Textured Looks in Paris

Olivia Dean played with texture at Chanel’s 2026 fall ready-to-wear show on Monday in Paris, wearing Look 67 from the house’s Métiers d’Art 2026 collection at the Grand Palais. The singer, whose song “So Easy” helped push her into a breakout year that recently brought a Grammy win for best new artist, arrived in one of the lineup’s more tactile combinations, pairing a densely patterned tweed jacket with a long cream skirt worked in fringe, sheer insets and feathery textured panels.

The “Man I Need” singer’s look paired a fitted bouclé-style tweed jacket with a long cream skirt built out in multiple textures. A mottled black, ivory and yellow pattern covered the jacket, which nipped in through the waist and closed with jewel-like round buttons, which were also adorned with tactile baubles. A broad collar, turned cuffs and a dark burgundy shoulder bag with a beaded strap added even more texture up top.

The skirt brought in the softer side of the look while still keeping a sense of structure. Cream satin-backed panels ran long through the body, broken by vertical bands of looped fringe and narrow, creamsicle-hued panels. A dense fringe hem finished the bottom.

Dean finished the look with Chanel’s cap-toe slingback pumps, one of the house’s longest-running signatures, done here in beige and black with pointed-toe caps and slim slingback straps.

Her outfit came from the Métiers d’Art collection Matthieu Blazy debuted in December on an abandoned Bowery subway platform in New York. “The collection is very character-driven,” he told WWD at the time, citing figures including a ’70s journalist, an ’80s businesswoman and the mix of personalities he encountered riding downtown.

Dean has been in Chanel’s orbit since at least the house’s spring 2023 haute couture show, and by June 2024 Chanel was listing her among its ambassadors and friends of the house at couture in Paris. She kept that relationship going into the 2026 Grammys, where she won Best New Artist in custom Chanel.

That ongoing relationship now sits alongside a widening ambassador portfolio. Burberry introduced Dean as the face of Burberry Her Parfum in January, and Hourglass named her its global brand partner on March 8, just a day before the Chanel show.

The Chanel appearance also extended the larger run Dean has been on since the release cycle for “The Art of Loving,” her sophomore album, which WWD recently tied to a record-setting chart moment for a British female artist.