Chantelle has spent a century and a half negotiating a particular tension: lingerie that flatters while it supports. Its 150th-anniversary capsule keeps that balance intact, splitting the collection between embroidered statement pieces and seamless everyday staples.
On the glamour side sits the Champs Elysees Balconette Bra, rendered in a deep black covered with intricate embroidery and designed to be worn with matching shorts or a fluid chemise. The pieces lean architectural, with structure doing the work that padding once did.
The capsule retails through John Lewis, a fitting placement for a house whose export market has long run through London. It is also a reminder that heritage in this category is measured in decades of fit data, not just anniversaries.
At 150 years, Chantelle is doing what the oldest houses do: treating the past as a technical archive rather than a museum. The anniversary set looks backward for its craft and forward for its engineering, which is exactly how a lingerie brand survives its own history.
