Chloé

Chloé

Gaby Aghion started Chloé in Paris in 1952, naming the house after a friend because a woman of her social standing was not supposed to have a job. The label made its name by treating luxury as something you could wear off the rack rather than have fitted at a couture house, and it kept proving that with the designers who passed through, from Karl Lagerfeld to Stella McCartney to Phoebe Philo.

Shoes

Chloé has never treated footwear as an afterthought to the runway look. The house's whole premise was clothes and accessories that moved with a body instead of armoring it, and that shows up here in soles and shapes built for actually walking somewhere. Scan this group for the kind of shoe that reads finished without trying to say too much.

More Shoes

A second wall of shoes is really a chance to see how wide the range runs, from something you could wear to an opening to something you could wear to the airport. Chloé built its name on ready-to-wear that didn't ask women to choose between comfort and looking put together. These pairs keep that argument going.

Bags

Handbags are a newer chapter for a house that spent its first fifty years mostly making clothes. Phoebe Philo's Paddington, introduced in the mid-2000s, is the reason Chloé bags became a category people specifically shop for rather than a line extension. What's collected here leans on that same instinct for a shape that gets recognized across a room.

Tops and shirting

Soft, fluid tailoring is closer to the brand's original DNA than anything structured. Gaby Aghion's first idea was clothing that felt looser than the stiff formality of 1950s Paris, made in good fabric but not fussed over. The shirting here still reads that way: relaxed rather than sharp, feminine without being precious.

Accessories

The smaller stuff is where a house's personality tends to leak out, and Chloé's has always been a little bohemian even as ownership and designers changed hands. These pieces are the finishing touches rather than the headline, which is exactly the role Aghion intended for them decades ago. Nothing here is trying to be the loudest thing in the room.

More from the collection

Seventy years on, Chloé is still working the same tension it started with: relaxed versus refined. The house has passed through the hands of Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, Clare Waight Keller and now Chemena Kamali, and each left a slightly different accent on that same sentence. This stretch of the edit is the rest of the current range, unsorted by category but consistent in mood.

More from the collection

There's a reason Chloé still gets described as romantic rather than minimal even in seasons when the silhouettes get cleaner. That word has followed the label since its earliest Left Bank fashion shows at Café de Flore, staged among artists rather than at a formal couture house. More of the current assortment sits here, still working that same soft-focus register.

More from the collection

Not every piece in a brand's current offering fits neatly under one heading, and that's fine when the throughline is a point of view rather than a category. Chloé's has always been prêt-à-porter with a pulse, clothes meant to be lived in rather than preserved. Browse this stretch for whatever catches, since it spans several parts of the current line.

More from the collection

Chloé also produces plenty that resists easy categorizing, seasonal pieces that don't map neatly onto shoes or bags or shirting. That variety is consistent with a house built by committee from the start, since Gaby Aghion never designed a stitch herself and instead directed a rotating group of talents toward one mood. This last stretch of the current range reflects that same collaborative, eclectic approach.

Our honest take

Chloé's reputation rests on a genuinely interesting premise, luxury that didn't require a fitting room, and it still trades on that even now that a rotating cast of creative directors has come and gone. The house is at its best when it leans into softness rather than chasing whatever silhouette is trending elsewhere. This edit has enough range to show both the brand's original instincts and its more recent, bag-led commercial turn.