CHANEL Connects
CHANEL Connects, the flagship arts and culture podcast, returns for Season 5.
Listeners are transported to La Pausa, Gabrielle Chanel’s "ideal Mediterranean villa" on the French Riviera. It was the only place entirely imagined and designed by the couturière. Set against this backdrop, Season 5 welcomes new guests and ideas, and explores the home as a nexus for creative encounters.
Presented by Yana Peel, President of Arts, Culture & Heritage, CHANEL Connects brings together artists and innovators shaping the now and defining the next.
Gabrielle Chanel hosted many of the leading visionaries of the 20th century—from Salvador Dalí to Jean Cocteau—at La Pausa, which became a site for artistic alchemy. Following a meticulous restoration, the villa reopened its doors for the Connects guests and their conversations.
The new season features changemakers across disciplines: Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o, Emanuele Coccia – philosopher and professor, Francesca Hayward of The Royal Ballet, artist Allison Katz, performance art duo Gerard & Kelly, Lauren Collins – writer at The New Yorker, artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco, and American artist Adam Pendleton.
5 is a significant number for CHANEL, so this season promises to be special. Episodes will be released weekly from July 16.
Latest Episode
Previous Episodes
- Creative Ecology: Mauro Colagreco and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 06.08.2025
- New Romantics: Lauren Collins and Gerard & Kelly 30.07.2025
- The Art of Performance: Francesca Hayward and Allison Katz 23.07.2025
- In Search of Home: Lupita Nyong’o and Emanuele Coccia 16.07.2025
- CHANEL Connects Season 5 16.07.2025
- Foreigners Everywhere: Adriano Pedrosa and Yana Peel 27.08.2024
- The Venetian Script: Michael Rock and Irma Boom 20.08.2024
- The Islanders: Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Trevor Yeung 13.08.2024
- Curators and the Zeitgeist: Simon Castets and Courtney J. Martin 06.08.2024
- The Sparring Partners: William Kentridge and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 30.07.2024
- The France Pavilion: Julien Creuzet 23.07.2024
- The Gallerists: Sadie Coles OBE and Angelina Volk 16.07.2024
- The Power of Sound: Vicky Krieps, Andrea Mancini and Every Island 09.07.2024
- The Critics in Venice: Kimberly Drew and Andrew Durbin 02.07.2024
- CHANEL Connects from the 60th Venice Biennale 02.07.2024
- Episodio Especial | El Arte del Instinto: Penélope Cruz & Carla Simón, Parte II 05.10.2023
- Black Tenderness: Barry Jenkins & Isaac Julien 05.10.2023
- Creative AI: Sarah Meyohas & Albert Read 29.08.2023
- Fact & Fiction: Sheila Heti & Amy Sillman 22.08.2023
- Epicurious Excellence: Jon Gray & Ruthie Rogers 15.08.2023
