Chanel Builds Life-Size Plane for Couture Show As if fashion wasn’t already synonymous with environmental excess. Karl Lagerfeld commisioned a life-size aircraft to house Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 couture show inside the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday.Subtlety has never been the designer’s strongest suit—this is the man who flew a 265-ton glacier to the City of Lights on a whim, after all—but the display of such extravagance in a depressed economy feels gauche even by the most liberal standards.Set designers didn’t just spend five days constructing the plane (or at least, the innards of one) from anodized aluminum. They also outfitted it with an extra-wide 164-foot aisle, 180-degree swivel seats for 250 high-profile guests, double-C monogrammed carpet, a holographic cockpit, and a slatted roof that revealed a vista of clouds. Mon dieu! Please take your seats, via @franburnslondon Chanel Air, complete with a skylight, via @styledotcomNow boarding Chanel Air, via @Grazia_LiveChanel trollies, via @franburnslondonThe Invite:

Chanel Builds Life-Size Plane for Couture Show

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As if fashion wasn’t already synonymous with environmental excess. Karl Lagerfeld commisioned a life-size aircraft to house Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 couture show inside the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday.

Subtlety has never been the designer’s strongest suit—this is the man who flew a 265-ton glacier to the City of Lights on a whim, after all—but the display of such extravagance in a depressed economy feels gauche even by the most liberal standards.

Set designers didn’t just spend five days constructing the plane (or at least, the innards of one) from anodized aluminum. They also outfitted it with an extra-wide 164-foot aisle, 180-degree swivel seats for 250 high-profile guests, double-C monogrammed carpet, a holographic cockpit, and a slatted roof that revealed a vista of clouds. Mon dieu!






Please take your seats, via @franburnslondon




http://fashionista.com/uploads/2012/01/@devlevingnePoppy.jpegChanel Air, complete with a skylight, via @styledotcom



Now boarding Chanel Air, via @Grazia_Live



Chanel trollies, via @franburnslondon




The Invite:
Chanel Builds Life-Size Plane for Couture Show As if fashion wasn’t already synonymous with environmental excess. Karl Lagerfeld commisioned a life-size aircraft to house Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 couture show inside the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday.Subtlety has never been the designer’s strongest suit—this is the man who flew a 265-ton glacier to the City of Lights on a whim, after all—but the display of such extravagance in a depressed economy feels gauche even by the most liberal standards.Set designers didn’t just spend five days constructing the plane (or at least, the innards of one) from anodized aluminum. They also outfitted it with an extra-wide 164-foot aisle, 180-degree swivel seats for 250 high-profile guests, double-C monogrammed carpet, a holographic cockpit, and a slatted roof that revealed a vista of clouds. Mon dieu! Please take your seats, via @franburnslondon Chanel Air, complete with a skylight, via @styledotcomNow boarding Chanel Air, via @Grazia_LiveChanel trollies, via @franburnslondonThe Invite:

Chanel Builds Life-Size Plane for Couture Show

http://fashionista.com/uploads/2012/01/137642066.jpg

As if fashion wasn’t already synonymous with environmental excess. Karl Lagerfeld commisioned a life-size aircraft to house Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 couture show inside the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday.

Subtlety has never been the designer’s strongest suit—this is the man who flew a 265-ton glacier to the City of Lights on a whim, after all—but the display of such extravagance in a depressed economy feels gauche even by the most liberal standards.

Set designers didn’t just spend five days constructing the plane (or at least, the innards of one) from anodized aluminum. They also outfitted it with an extra-wide 164-foot aisle, 180-degree swivel seats for 250 high-profile guests, double-C monogrammed carpet, a holographic cockpit, and a slatted roof that revealed a vista of clouds. Mon dieu!






Please take your seats, via @franburnslondon




http://fashionista.com/uploads/2012/01/@devlevingnePoppy.jpegChanel Air, complete with a skylight, via @styledotcom



Now boarding Chanel Air, via @Grazia_Live



Chanel trollies, via @franburnslondon




The Invite:

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In Fall 2009, Walter created the Walter Collection. The Walter Collection incorporates the principles of haute couture: fashion, quality and fit. Each season’s silhouettes are motivated by the latest European fabrics. Hand beaded tops sewn by artisans, hand worked jackets in the latest novelty fabrics, feminine, beautiful skirts and dresses, perfectly tailored pants and luxurious cashmere sweaters: all with embellishments finely crafted to compliment the fabrics and designs are always a part of the Walter Collection. The Walter Collection only employs and works with the best; from hand-beaded tops sewn by artisans to hand crafted jackets in the latest novelty fabrics, from stunning skirts and dresses exuding the essence of femininity to flawlessly tailored pants and luxurious cashmere sweaters. A natural trait of the Walter Collection is to instill in their garments finely crafted embellishments to compliment the fabrics and designs. Various one-of-a-kind pieces of the Walter Collection go into limited productions, mostly to exclusive clients.

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