PARIS (AP) – The sky was the limit in Karl Lagerfeld’s aviation-themed Chanel show on Tuesday, which saw an entire airport re-created under the lofty expanse of Paris’ Grand Palais.
Guests couldn’t quite believe their eyes as they entered one of Lagerfeld’s most ambitious shows yet.
Young Japanese fashionistas bumped in to each other to take selfies beneath a giant electronic passenger information table, as model Cara Delevingne, singer Vanessa Paradis and tennis star Maria Sharapova breezed by.
Hostesses sat at check-in desks plastered in “Chanel Airlines” – with departure lounge chairs sprawling for hundreds of meters (yards).
Destinations on the board – Shanghai, Dallas, Salzburg, Dubai, Tokyo – were a showy check list of all the cities in which Chanel has recently presented collections, highlighting the global nature of one of the world’s most lucrative luxury brands.