Paris Fashion Week, Day 8: No One Goes Bigger Than Chanel
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Version 0 of 1. The end is near, and the number of key shows thinning, but Tuesday kicks off with one of Paris’s biggest bangs. Here’s what to look for: • Chanel. No one goes bigger than the grande dame of Paris labels, and every season, Karl Lagerfeld and company commandeer the main space of the Grand Palais to build an enormous temple to Chanel. One season he trucked in a Nordic iceberg; another season, set up a fully stocked, Chanel-themed supermarket. (Shoplifters were shaken down at the door.) This season? We’ll see. During visits to the Grand Palais this week (other labels show in its smaller spaces), the work-in-progress has been carefully obscured. • Kenzo. It’s not Chanel-giant, but Kenzo, at least in the hands of Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, has been known to mount an extravaganza of its own. They’ll have their hands full this fall: After this show, it’s off to New York, for the debut (and party, undoubtedly) for their H & M collaboration. • Vanessa Seward. The A.P.C.-backed designer is a rising Paris star, whose clothes are attracting fans as quickly as she is opening stores. She now has three in Paris and — as of this summer — her first in the United States, in Los Angeles. And in case you missed it: • Paris Fashion Week is buzzing about the theft, at gunpoint, of Kim Kardashian West’s jewelry at a Paris hotel … • … and the mood may have been grim, but there was still a model dance party. Our critic’s report. • Meanwhile, the fashion set remembered Sonia Rykiel, in the first season since her death. |