Chanel Nexus Hall, an exhibition and concert space dedicated to the spirit of Gabrielle Chanel in Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday unveiled the showcase of the work of photographer Roe Ethridge in an exhibition format.

Featuring a series of composite image collages commissioned for the inaugural edition of Chanel’s Arts & Culture Magazine, the exhibition will run till April 16.

Led by Chanel’s Culture Fund and Yana Peel, the president of arts, culture and heritage at the brand, the magazine was launched last June. It revisited the brand’s work with artists and cultural institutions in the last five years.

A long-time collaborator with Chanel, Ethridge was commissioned to explore a collection of Gabrielle Chanel’s possessions, and was granted access to capture objects from the brand’s archive alongside personal items from the designer’s Paris apartment at 31 rue Cambon.

Among her treasured items was a bust of Chanel by Jacques Lipchitz, a manuscript of “Poèmes pour Misia” by Pierre Reverdy, a book with illustrated dedications to Chanel from Gala and Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso’s sketches for Le Tricorne, and an Egyptian funerary mask.

The brand said Ethridge’s photographs on display in the accompanying exhibition in Japan extend the brand’s tradition of championing the leading artists of the era.

Ethridge’s images blur the boundaries between fine art and commercial practices, and are in institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, London’s Tate Modern, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Since launching in 2004, Nexus Hall has hosted various events across disciplines. Recent exhibitions included the AI-centric work of Sofia Crespo and Entangled Others, as well as photographer Pushpamala N’s first solo show in Japan.