Life-Size Plane for Spring 2012 Paris Couture Week Show!
As if fashion wasn’t already synonymous with environmental excess. (Tell us something we don't know, Really!)
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!
I will add to that: COMPLETEMENT RIDICULE, VRAIMENT!
You can view more pictures here: http://www.ecouterre.com/chanel-builds-life-size-plane-for-spring-2012-paris-couture-week-show/
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!
I will add to that: COMPLETEMENT RIDICULE, VRAIMENT!
You can view more pictures here: http://www.ecouterre.com/chanel-builds-life-size-plane-for-spring-2012-paris-couture-week-show/
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