Tilda Swinton brought Chanel’s pale blue cap-toe slingbacks back into the house conversation Tuesday in Seoul, wearing the two-tone heels to the Chanel Métiers d’Art 2026 photo-call at Centre Pompidou Hanwha.
The actress and Chanel ambassador wore an icy blue-and-black slingback from the French house, giving the classic Chanel cap-toe a softer, modern read than its straight-cut predecessors. The Matthieu Blazy-designed heel featured a glossy pale blue upper and a low-cut vamp, with a black cap toe that softly swooped across the toe box in a shallow curve. The pair was finished with a slim slingback strap and dipped side cutouts.
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She paired the heels with a translucent Chanel haute couture skirt suit from Chanel’s couture spring 2026 collection in soft blue, gray and cream tones. The look included a loose, long-sleeve jacket over a straight midi skirt, both covered in small sheer discs and iridescent paillettes that gave the surface a watery, frost-like texture. She kept the beauty direction spare, with bleached cropped hair, pale brows and a glossy complexion that stayed in the same icy tone as the rest of her look.
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The shoes placed Swinton inside Chanel’s revitalized cap-toe story. For Matthieu Blazy’s spring 2026 debut, the house reworked one of its most recognizable footwear codes with smaller toe accents, sharper color contrasts and graphic trim across pumps, mules and slingbacks. Gabrielle Chanel introduced the two-tone slingback in 1957, and the beige and black version, developed with Massaro, remains one of the house’s most recognizable shoe signatures.
Swinton’s Seoul pair also followed Lily-Rose Depp’s pale blue Chanel cap-toe slingbacks at the 2026 Met Gala earlier this month. Depp wore a glossy pastel version with a gray embroidered Chanel dress, giving the house’s two-tone heel a softer red carpet placement. On Swinton, the same color story moved into an icier aesthetic.
Swinton’s relationship with Chanel dates back more than a decade. In 2013, Karl Lagerfeld photographed her for the house’s Métiers d’Art Paris-Edinburgh campaign, and she has had a close relationship with the French luxury house since — a fitting history for Tuesday’s Métiers d’Art setting in Seoul.