Chanel 31 Le Rouge lipstick recalls the mirrored staircase of the fashion house’s rue Cambon address in Paris, with its refillable tube sporting a faceted square surface, created by a Japanese glassmaker for lightweight durability. It is, of course, the work of Sylvie Legastelois, the brand’s head of packaging and design creation since 1984. ‘I have a mission to respect the past,’ Legastelois told Wallpaper’s Mary Cleary upon the lipstick’s launch at the end of 2023, ‘... and, at the same time, to reinvent new codes, to go further the same way Gabrielle [Chanel, the company’s founder] did. So she left us this mission: to balance between the past and future.’
