Angèle on her sophomore album, “Nonante-Cinq,” and her '90s-inspired Chanel tour wardrobe
. Not long after Angèle became an ambassador for the brand in 2019—who could be a better face for Viard’s vision of youthful, laid-back Gallic femininity?—they began discussing the possibility of a custom tour wardrobe. Two years later, when that opportunity was back on the table, Angèle’s first instinct was to look to the year she was born .
”It’s a philosophy that speaks to Angèle’s newfound sense of confidence and security, which shines through on—young love, feminism, developing a healthy relationship with social media—for something more personal, charting the bittersweet course of her romantic life over the past few years. “It was almost like an exorcism for me to perform those songs,” she says.