Chanel launches space rocket at Paris Fashion Week show
It was one hug leap for fashion-kind
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Your support makes all the difference.When it comes to out-of-this-world runway sets you can always count on Karl Lagerfeld to deliver; remember his Parisian brasserie, supermarket and feisty feminist riot?
But for Chanel’s autumn/winter 2017 show today, the designer boldly went where no other has gone before.
The spectacle, which took place within the ‘Centre de Lancement No 5’ – a makeshift space station positioned inside Paris’ iconic Grand Palais – heralded a galactic inspired set; life-size rocket and all.
The unassuming audience believed this was all for effect of course, but as the cast of space-age supermodels which included the likes of Bella, Gigi and Kendall, ignited the finale, the rocket actually blasted off.
Following a dramatic 10-second countdown, models sporting space-inspired garb lined up in a plume of smoke as Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ played and the rocket lifted 10-metres into the air.
Together with a collection boasting silver stardust boots, swirling astronaut logos and glistening galaxy motifs, this was a spectacular show that promises to go down as one of Chanel’s most memorable catwalk moments.
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