Chanel has confirmed Alice Dellal as the face of its new handbag collection.

The controversial model has been chosen by Karl Lagerfeld to front the campaign for the Boy Chanel Handbag collection.

Chanel confirmed the partnership today to WWD today saying: ‘[Karl Lagerfeld] had a crush on this unique, charismatic young lady, who is both a model and musician, during a photo shoot several months ago.’

‘This previously unforeseen alliance finally became self-evident. Alice Dellal represents the perfect incarnation of all that is unique about the Boy Chanel handbag collection, which strives [to be] far from conformist notions of femininity.’

Bringing something a little different to the trademark femininity of Chanel, we can’t wait to see the end result!