The invitation to the Chanel show is always the first clue: interlocking Cs made of Ethernet cables and frayed fiber optic cable cords. Hmm... would this Chanel show be about the Internet? (Avez-vous du weeeefeeee?)
The second clue: the set at the Grand Palais, which had been transformed into...a data center. Attendees posed against rows of blinking lights and networks of cords.
And then the first look: twin robots (à la Daft Punk), wearing Chanel tweed. If this digitally themed Chanel collection was meant to be future focused, the looks that followed were a throwback. The '80s, a decade evoked this week at Saint Laurent and Balenciaga, were present at Chanel too, by way of loud prints and colors, tweed skirt suits with boxy shoulders, and in streetwear elements like flashy chain necklaces and baseball caps turned the side.
Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" blared. Usher sat smiling in the front row alongside Lily Rose Depp and Courtney Love and Frances Bean. Everyone feels the love at a Chanel show.
Of course, following Kim Kardashian's terrifying attack, sister Kendall Jenner didn't walk the show (as she has done for the past few seasons) and her mother, Kris, didn't attend. So there was a bit of that buzz gone, caution in its place.
