Chanel goes to the opera in a gleaming but designer-less couture collection
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Chanel goes to the opera in a gleaming but designer-less couture collection

Associated Press  

PARIS — The show must go on, with aplomb. Here are some highlights of the fall couture displays: Chanel’s opulence Guests clutching Chanel opera glasses got happily lost as they explored marble staircases to find a stage in the Opera’s outer corridors, filled with red velvet opera boxes designed by French movie director Christophe Honoré. Armani Prive’s pearl romance To nostalgic jazz music, 89-year-old fashion veteran Giorgio Armani returned to his touchstones of the Art Deco period — the 1920s and ’30s — and romance for a slow-burning and brightly gleaming couture display at the Palais de Tokyo. So iconic, in fact, th at there was a new adjective for him revealed in the show notes — “Armanian.” Mabille’s toast to glamour Bubbles are never far away from the effervescent couturier Alexis Mabille. De Vilmorin’s witchy wonderland Charles de Vilmorin, the 27-year-old wunderkind of the Parisian couture scene, has once again proven his mettle with a spellbinding show that merged experimental silhouettes, dark musings, and eye-catching color palettes.

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Chanel takes haute couture fashion to Paris Opera house
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Chanel takes haute couture fashion to Paris Opera house

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