Fasten your seatbelts: Chanel flies couture sky-high
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PARIS — Chanel flew the vogue crowd sky-high on Tuesday, conjuring up a life-sized regular as the runway for an all-blue spring collection as it headlined day two of the Paris haute couture shows.
Stewards walked the interminably of the central aisle, offering champagne to Chanel's guests as they took their seats in the original aircraft, purpose-built inside the Grand Palais demo hall.
"After the red carpet, the blue carpet," the house's silver-haired originator Karl Lagerfeld, in trademark black suit and shades, quipped to reporters.
"I inclination the plane," said the globe-trotting couturier. "There's nothing I find more relaxing. Your neighbours are stuck to their screens, there are no phones -- it's blissfully untroubled."
Dim-lit, with "Exit" signs, images of fluffy clouds overhead and a cockpit at one end, the aircraft was carpeted with a Chanel monogram, and its seats swivelled get together to offer a full view of the runway.
"Pretty cool, right!" smiled the actress Diane Kruger as she took her enthrone.
Source: AFP