Chanel’s Lake Como Cruise Show Is Coming To Singapore
Will Jennie make an appearance at the Chanel Cruise 2025/26 show in Singapore? Manifesting it as we speak.
After its glamorous debut on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como on April 29 – an event FEMALE had the privilege of attending in person – Chanel’s Cruise 2025/26 collection is headed to Singapore later this year.
Set to take place on Nov 4, the show will mark the maison’s latest restaging of a Cruise collection in a culturally rich locale – part of a globetrotting tradition that began in 2010. And the collection itself? Think screen siren glamour meets breezy Riviera chic. In short: holiday wardrobe goals, the Chanel way.
Screen siren glamour meets breezy Riviera chic – that’s the vibe for Chanel’s Cruise 2025/2026 collection.
The Cruise tradition is rooted in Gabrielle Chanel’s own joie de vivre. In the autumn of 1919, she designed a collection of lightweight knits and dresses for women who, like herself, escaped to balmy destinations like Deauville, Biarritz, and Monte Carlo when the Parisian cold hit. This revolutionary idea would go on to become what we now know as the modern-day Cruise collection.
The latest edition is Chanel’s answer to La Dolce Vita. Inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s personal love for Italy and her deep connection to its film industry – especially her friendship with iconic filmmaker Luchino Visconti – the Cruise 2025/26 show brought cinematic splendour to Lake Como’s Villa d’Este, a 16th-century mansion-turned-luxury hotel known for its Renaissance gardens and a cameo in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Pleasure Garden.
If Lake Como brought the cinematic nostalgia, then Singapore is set to deliver its own dramatic twist. Chanel has long mastered the art of storytelling through space – Hong Kong revived the sun-soaked spirit of Marseille for Cruise 2024/25 at its Design Institute, while Tokyo reimagined its 2022/23 Metiers d’art show originally staged in Dakar at the Tokyo Big Sight convention centre.
So, it’s only fitting that the Lion City will get a production worthy of the house’s globetrotting legacy. Will it be the storied halls of Raffles Hotel? A sleek beach club? Or perhaps one of the Civic District’s neoclassical gems? The guessing game is officially on.
This isn't Chanel’s first Singapore affair, either. In 2013, Karl Lagerfeld brought the Cruise 2013/14 collection to Dempsey Hill’s Loewen Cluster, with celebrity guests including Dakota Fanning and K-pop heartthrob Choi Si-won gracing the front row.
Expect a celeb-studded affair when Chanel lands in Singapore this Nov – Thai pop darling Ally was spotted at the Lake Como show, after all
Fast forward to 2025, and Chanel’s relationship with Singapore has only deepened. Last month, rising Gen Z musician Shye became the first Singaporean celebrity to be seated front row at Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2025 show in Paris. Meanwhile, the maison threw its support behind Spirit World, a film directed by local auteur Eric Khoo and starring Catherine Deneuve as a musician who becomes a yokai (a spirit in Japanese folklore) after her death in Tokyo. The project, both funded and creatively supported by Chanel, reflects its long-standing dedication to cinema and elevating global voices.
The Cruise 2025/26 restaging is more than a fashion show – it’s a cultural moment. And come Nov, Singapore will be at the centre of Chanel’s world.