Chanel Commercial Summer Readings with Charlotte Casiraghi 2025

VIDEO CHANEL Summer Readings with Charlotte Casiraghi TV commercial 2024 • Summer Readings with Charlotte Casiraghi — CHANEL and Literature To accompany your summer break, spokesperson and ambassador of the House Charlotte Casiraghi unveiled her summer books selection. These four works by Dorothy Parker, Caroline O’Donoghue, Abigail Assor and Tove Jansson explore with sensitivity and accuracy the stories of women, their loves, their doubts, their strengths and their weaknesses. Spend a summer with a former beauty queen, a couple who meets in a Cork bookshop, an unlikely love story in 1990s Casablanca, or the adventures of a little girl on holiday with her grandmother in Finland. See more at chanel.com/-YT-Rdvlitteraires24_SC #CHANELRendezvousLitteraires #CHANEL 0:02 It's true, summer is an ideal time for reading. 0:05 Or at least, I usually have a lot of books in my suitcase! 0:09 I try to vary the tone of the books I choose. 0:13 I think one of life's great pleasures is reading beside the sea. 0:18 I'm sure you agree, it's a moment of great happiness 0:22 because there's something contemplative about it, 0:26 being not only immersed in what you're reading but also… 0:30 being in an atmosphere that encourages a kind of meditation, in a way. 0:40 I won't reveal too much about The Rachel Incident but... 0:44 it really feels incredibly contemporary. 0:48 What I found most original about it was the way in which Caroline O'Donoghue 0:54 tells the story of an inseparable friendship 0:58 between a girl and a boy 1:01 at a time when they're entering adulthood, 1:04 and the book's two protagonists are living together, 1:08 with all the misadventures that can happen 1:11 while they're questioning their attitudes to love, sexuality, work... 1:18 I really enjoy novels that tackle this period 1:21 when you join the world of work, 1:23 because it's a major sea-change that can sometimes be very difficult. 1:28 It's a time when you're trying to get your bearings, in a way, 1:33 and that's fascinating. 1:35 It's a masterly first novel. 1:38 That is to say, the writing is very controlled, 1:42 very precise, but also very sensual and poetic. 1:46 The writing is so assured, it's quite remarkable. 1:50 I discovered the atmosphere of Casablanca in the 1990s 1:54 and it tackles important questions about social background 1:59 and about trangressing social boundaries, 2:04 and how, actually, a love affair 2:07 can set both characters on a path 2:09 to discovering a new perspective. 2:12 I found the two main characters, 2:15 Sarah and Driss, very appealing right from the start. 2:19 It's a very sunny novel 2:22 and the two characters seem besotted with their freedom, 2:25 with the sunshine, 2:27 with desire, but at the same time 2:30 are held back, perhaps, by their differences. 2:33 But it really is such a joyous book to read 2:38 because of their desire for each other, 2:41 and we're swept along with them. 2:45 I love The Collected Dorothy Parker 2:47 because it's so acerbic. 2:49 It's very current, even though it's set in 1950s New York. 2:54 There are lots of questions around domestic and married life 2:59 that are still very contemporary, 3:02 and the unparalleled brightness of Dorothy Parker 3:07 leads us, I think 3:10 to a certain understanding of human and social relationships 3:16 that is remarkably clear-sighted. 3:19 That's the power of literature. 3:22 It can remain completely current even when written in a different era. 3:27 The Summer Book is a short book, a sweet little gem 3:31 that's very connected to nature, 3:33 because it's set on a small island in Finland. 3:36 It's about young Sophie, who is mourning her mother 3:40 and goes to spend the summer with her grandmother. 3:44 The grandmother and grandchild have these conversations, 3:47 and it's very moving 3:50 to see the connection between those generations. 3:53 The relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter 3:59 is often quite a pivotal one, 4:01 so that link between generations is very moving 4:05 in Tove Jansson's book. 4:07 Some books allow us to travel far and wide 4:10 while staying in a very familiar atmosphere. 4:13 It's about discovering worlds and lives that are different to your own. 4:18 That's the journey that really matters. - advertisement spot 2024