CERNOBBIO, Italy — “I don’t suppose Emma Corrin wants any recommendation,” a glowing Keira Knightley stated with an enormous smile as she attended the primary of the 2 runway reveals Chanel staged on Lake Como on Tuesday.
The British actress joined the likes of Sofia Coppola, Lupita Nyong’o, Margaret Qualley and Ananya Panday in flocking to the landmark Villa d’Este resort right here, which Chanel secured as its unique venue to parade its cruise 2026 assortment.
Talking with WWD about her longtime relationship with the French home and the integral function style performs in her work and in constructing a personality, Knightley additionally retraced her well-known efficiency as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s “Pleasure & Prejudice” movie, which turns 20 this 12 months. Now, simply as each different fan of Jane Austen’s traditional, she’s able to binge-watch Netflix’ new miniseries adaptation starring Emma Corrin within the function.
“’Pleasure & Prejudice’ is without doubt one of the traditional novels, Elizabeth Bennet is without doubt one of the traditional heroines. It’s been made so many instances, and it ought to be made many times as a result of there’s all the time one thing for a brand new era,” stated Knightley. “It’s a kind of traditional tales and but it’s all the time trendy due to the spirit of Elizabeth Bennet and the love story inside it. So I can’t wait to see the brand new model of it, and I used to be very proud to have the ability to play the character.”
Keira Knightley
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Talking of Netflix productions, Knightley herself has a brand new film developing for the streaming platform on the finish of the 12 months. Titled “The Girl in Cabin 10” and primarily based on Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestselling ebook of the identical title, the psychological thriller directed by Simon Stone will see the actress star alongside the likes of Man Pearce, Hannah Waddingham and Kaya Scodelario, amongst others.
However earlier than embarking on press excursions, on Tuesday Knightley took time to understand the cinematic high quality of the Chanel cruise 2026 assortment. Proper after the present, she stated she liked “the truth that it was half ‘30s film star, half type of Studio 54 and ‘70s disco.
“There was this actually stunning romantic type of pastel-y coloured, ruffled, full-length [look] like a ‘30s star, the place I felt I used to be in a real [Luchino] Visconti film. After which there’s a great halterneck black leather-based the place I stated, ‘Nicely, now I’m in disco’ — so I felt between these two and was very completely happy,” she stated.
A glance from the Chanel cruise 2026 ready-to-wear present.
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One other style feat that makes Knightley completely happy? An enormous bow. Truly the extra the merrier, judging by the look she picked for the event — a flowy white shirt embellished with black bows across the neckline, which she tucked into an extended skirt and cinched on the waist with a belt product of pearl strands.
“I noticed this look in Chanel’s fall 2025 present and I assumed, ‘Sure, please’. I imply, you all the time want bows – at any time when there’s a bow I’m, ‘Sure! Completely’,” she stated. “I simply all the time liked Chanel as a result of the historical past of the model, timeless and but trendy — they’re continually reinventing one thing that’s all the time wearable and completely stylish. You might be all the time in protected palms when you’re with Chanel.”
Lupita Nyong’o
Nyong’o acquired the bow memo, too, as she opted for 3 massive ones to safe her updo on the again. Regardless of going for a complete black look, her coiffure and pink make-up added enjoyable components to her outfit, which she stated “jogged my memory of the spirit of Lake Como, which is opulent and but type of playful — that’s why I picked it.”
That’s the method she embraces for her pink carpet moments. “I am going with my feelings and the way I wish to really feel. And I wish to look put collectively however have a humorousness so I wish to dare myself and have braveness with what I put on,” stated Nyong’o, who has joined a stellar forged for Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie, “The Odyssey.” Scheduled to be launched subsequent 12 months, the variation of Homer’s iconic poem will see Nyong’o starring alongside the likes of Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron, amongst others.
Margaret Qualley
American actress Sarah Catherine Hook can also be embarking on new initiatives. After the success of the third season of “The White Lotus,” she is going to subsequent be seen within the Netflix film “Folks We Meet on Trip.”
“It’s humorous as a result of the scenes that I shot have been set in Tuscany and so it was this sort of Italian villa vibe,” she stated. “Once I filmed it, I additionally felt transported in time equally to how I really feel right here. It was very glamorous.”
As she acknowledged the shift in her profession — going from “rolling the cube, audition and hope and pray that somebody will rent me” to being despatched scripts now — Hook stated she’s trying increasingly to play totally different characters and experiment with totally different genres.
“I’d love to have the ability to sing,” she stated. Her dream function would have ties with Italy as she revealed she’d wish to star in “this musical that’s set in Florence known as ‘The Gentle within the Piazza’ and I’d like to play Clara in the future.”
Sara Catherine Hook
As for Fernanda Torres, she revealed she wrote a script for a comedy at first of final 12 months and “that’s what I wish to do now.”
The Brazilian actress partnered with Chanel for her Oscars debut earlier this 12 months, strolling the 2025 Academy Awards pink carpet in a glance straight from the French home’s spring 2025 runway present.
After scooping the Golden Globe Award for finest actress in a drama, the “I’m Nonetheless Right here” actress was the second Brazilian to ever be nominated within the Greatest Actress class, following her mom’s nomination in 1999.
The film put her beneath the worldwide highlight — backed by unbelievable help from her fellow Brazilians — and her fashion developed at each step of her press tour.
Fernanda Torres
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“I needed to study,” stated Torres. “I dwell in Rio de Janeiro. It’s virtually obscene to be overdressed, to be dressed even, since you might be in a spot like this [in Villa d’Este] after which somebody in a bikini will look higher than you, and also you’ll look a bit unusual. That’s the place I used to be raised,” she stated along with her signature humorousness and affable methods.
“However then out of the blue with ‘I’m Nonetheless Right here’ we had like six months of pink carpets. And pink carpet is one other stage, it’s a must to resolve who you’re going to be,” she continued. “So I had the character I used to be portraying within the film and I couldn’t develop into Cinderella on the pink carpet. I needed to resolve and my stylist Antonio Frajado helped me loads to search out this steadiness between one thing pink carpet-able and on the similar time elegant, discreet and noble like the girl I used to be portraying, and that in a means it was very near who I’m.
“I discovered loads: now I believe I’ve a picture of myself in that stage… Now I really feel comfy and know what to decide on for myself,” stated Torres.
Sofia Coppola
Others within the entrance row on the Chanel reveals included Luca Guadagnino, Caroline de Maigret, Egyptian actress Tara Emad, Japanese expertise Nana Komatsu, Chinese language actress Ning Chang, Thai actress and singer Ally and a pool of Italian skills.
Luca Guadagnino