Review: Chanel bids a snowy — and briefly silent — farewell to Karl Lagerfeld

The fall and winter 2019 Chanel runway show at Paris Fashion Week featured the final collection designed by Karl Lagerfeld, who died Feb. 19.

The big question going into Tuesday morning’s Chanel show was how the house would pay homage to Karl Lagerfeld, who held the creative reins at the house from 1982 untiltwo weeks ago. The answer: a full minute of silence inside the cavernous Grand Palais, which had been transformed into a snowy mountainside resort.

At the sound of tinkling wind chimes, a handful of Chanel-clad models entered and stood silently at the top of the runway and a voice on the PA system asked for — first in French and then in English — one minute of silence. And there the fashion flock sat, for 60 full seconds, as quiet as church mice, without so much as a cellphone ring tone or text alert to be heard. Then Lagerfeld’s voice filled the hall, speaking in French about building Chanel into the brand it is today.

Anyone who has been fortunate enough to set foot in the wonderment of a Chanel runway set piece knows that feeling well; it’s like stepping to the rim of the Grand Canyon for the first time, with the interior of the glass-roofed exhibition space transformed into awe-inspiring seascapes , leafy forests, space-rocket launch pads and even humming glass-walled server farms with yards of colorful computer cables arranged just so.

So it was this time too: transformed, with no detail spared, into an Alpine ski village complete with mountains in the distance, Chanel skis stuck in faux snowbanks and fake smoke spiraling lazily out of chalet chimneys. And, as the tinkling Philip Glass music on the soundtrack started back up, the village got back to bustling, the models kicking up clouds of fake snow as they walked the runway, presenting the last of the Lagerfeld-era looks.

Funny since Lagerfeld is now someplace, ahem, rather tropical 🔥🔥🔥

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