Karl Lagerfeld presented his Spring 2017 collection for Chanel this morning at Paris Fashion Week. Like any Chanel fashion show, this one came with A-list celebrities, a set to put all others to shame, and enough takes on the iconic Chanel suit to make your head spin. Sarah Mower’s review will be up shortly—until then, find everything you need to know about Chanel’s Spring 2017 show here.
1. Chanel transformed the Grand Palais into a data storage center of sorts with giant computer processors forming aisles through the space.
2. Chanel muse Lily-Rose Depp sat front row beside Usher and two seats down from Courtney Love and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
3. Being the first look out at a Chanel show is a role that comes with great esteem and has been held by models like Daria Werbowy and Cara Delevingne. This season, the accolade went to an unknown model—literally. Two women dressed as optic white Chanel-clad robots opened the show.
4. After the robot-Cocos came a parade of models led by Arizona Muse in short skirts and swingy jackets in a variety of bright colors.
5. Nearly every model wore a flat brim baseball cap tilted sideways. Some came in swirls of neon, others were pure black.
6. And if you’re wearing a jaunty baseball cap, there’s only one hairstyle that will work: the side ponytail. Leave it to Chanel’s hairstylist, Sam McKnight, to make the retro ’do feel cool again.
7. The Chanel bag just got a major reboot. On the runway today were techno styles that featured light-up exteriors.
8. Comfortable shoes ruled the runway today. Chanel created low, block-heeled pumps with ankle coverings that accompanied each look. When models weren’t wearing the pump-boot hybrids, they were sporting classic Chanel ballet flats.
9. Lagerfeld’s many muses walked in the show today, including Edie Campbell, Soo Joo Park, Catherine McNeil, Lindsey Wixson, Louise Parker, and Arizona Muse.
