Karl Lagerfeld just outdid himself with Chanel’s spring/summer ’16 show. While he loathes airport fashion—yes, that includes your trusty, comfy sweatpants—the brand’s creative director turned lazy terminal dressing into one fashionable affair at Paris Fashion Week. Here comes Chanel Airlines.
Paris’ Grand Palais was transformed into a full-blown airport, complete with luggage carts, and flight attendants. Dummy flight tickets served as passes, while the audience sat on those those steel, slanted boarding gate seats.
Clearly, Karl aims to reinterpret airport fashion and make it chic again. Perhaps with celebrities in mind, he emphasized on dressing comfortably in this collection. Wide-leg pants, knits, tweed dresses, flat Teva-like sandals paired with socks, suits, and large aviator sunglasses (and makeup, mind you) were central to the show.
Now, let’s not forget the A-listers who flocked Chanel’s front row. The brand’s newest poster girl Lily-Rose Depp was present sporting a top bun, as was Cara Delevingne since she’s let her modeling career take a backseat. (She did, however, come running to Karl as he took his customary walk down the runway at the end of the show.) Nippon Vogue‘s Anna Dello Russo bumped into 10 women with the same outfit as hers, and Maria Sharapova breezed by.
This isn’t the first time Chanel has ventured into aviation-themed shows. Last 2008, Karl mounted a cruise show that had jumbo jets and took place at a hangar in Santa Monica, California . In 2012, the spring couture show was staged in a makeshift plane.
See all the looks from the show here.
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