Master actor Tilda Swinton covers the December 2024 issue of Vogue Taiwan [IG] December 2024, styled in the all-Chanel fashion story by Jerry Stafford. Photographer Zhong Lin [AOC] captures Swinton in another fashion story stop on her currently-epic rise across major lifestyle media.

Vogue’s APAC Editorial Director Leslie Sun oversaw the project, working with Features Director and Text Nicole Lee and Creative and Managing Fashion Editor Chen Yu. / Makeup Sunny Hsu; Hair: Juno Ko

Just this morning I looked at the Anne of Carversville landing page, which is a sea of joyless black for the holidays in the fashion lead. I don’t remember it looking so sedate and somber. Thank you Vogue Taiwan.

Chanel in Japan for Chanel and Cinema Tokyo Lights Photocall

Chanel ambassador Tilda Swinton, represented the luxury brand in a new event: the Chanel and Cinema — Tokyo Lights Photocall.

Chanel launched the new program to enhance its support for emerging cinema talent by partnering up with acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda. The director hosted a series of talks on November 28 at the Okuma auditorium at Waseda University focused on aspiring filmmakers.

Speaking of the project, Hirokazu told the press: “I was looking for a collaborative partner to nurture the young talents in the film industry for the next ten or twenty years. We are working collaboratively with CHANEL on a programme to offer a space for new encounters. This project will be very exciting.”

Chanel will sponsor three films, selected from the Tokyo Lights project, showcasing them in Tokyo and Paris.

Chanel’s Hangzhou 2024/25 Métiers d’art Show on December 3, 2024

Tilda Swinton also touched down in China, in advance of Chanel’s Hangzhou 2024/25 Métiers d’art show “on the mythical West Lake” on December 3. Hangzhou is located 125 miles south of Shanghai.

A UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011, West Lake is featured on the 19th-century Coromandel lacquer screen in Gabrielle Chanel’s office at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris. As the brand pointed out to press, this screen has been a "source of dream and creativity, fuelling the couturière’s imagination", undiminished by the fact that Coco Chanel never visited China.

German filmmaker and author ‘Wim’ Wenders, a major figure in New German Cinema, joined the project and Chanel ambassador Tilda Swinton in a short film where Wenders follows Swinton as she explores Coco Chanel’s office on Rue Cambon. It’s here where she discovers the treasured Chinese screen that so inspired the legendary designer, before the creative team journeys to the iconic lake in China. "A true invitation to travel, both in reality and with the imagination, to be fully unveiled on November 30, 2024," noted the brand.

Leaving Chanel behind for the moment, we visit a new film overflowing with prestige and talent.

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore: ‘The Room Next Door’

For the two Oscar winners, a long-hoped-for collaboration finally harnesses their formidable talents in director Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’. Swinton plays Martha, a war correspondent suffering with stage 3 cancer. Moore plays Ingrid, required to confront her own fear of death before being effective in helping her friend through the decision about when to end her own.

When Swinton chose Moore because the role called for someone who exuded “a deeply sympathetic and relatable portal to a lived experience,” the director affirmed her recommendation. Moore was Pedro Almodóvar’s choice as well.

The film received the Golden Lion award at this year’s Venice Film Festival.