A dark aerial view of a theatre.
Phoebe Philo chose the Tennis Club de Paris for her second season at Céline. Production by Etienne Russo of Villa Eugenie and soundtrack by Michel Gaubert
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By Jack Moss
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From a giant iceberg at Chanel to a rotating carousel at Viktor & Rolf, the Paris A/W 2010 show venues were as varied and imaginative as the collections they hosted.

Dior show view

The Dior show was held in a temporary structure, erected within Paris' Jardin des Tuileries. Designer John Galliano worked with Michael Howells on the set and production was by Bureau Betak

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Hermès show runway

The Hermès show featured a hypnotic, spiral-encased runway which ran the length of the Halle Freyssinet

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Hermès show runway

Hermès - production by Villa Eugenie and music by Frederic Sanchez

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Hermès show runway

Hermès

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The Lanvin show staircase view

The Lanvin show was held in the Halle Freyssinet

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The Lanvin show staircase view

Lanvin Artistic Director Alber Elbaz, said of the show, ' I wanted to bring in the staircase because I really wanted to bring in this feeling of a French chateau. I had the girls coming up and I thought it was much more relevant for the moment to see women moving up rather than coming down'

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The Lanvin show staircase view

Lanvin. Production by Villa Eugenie

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Table and chairs in a room

Loewe by Stuart Vevers was held in the Ecole de Médecine, seating was on bistro-esque tables and chairs

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Louis Vuitton show

Louis Vuitton held in a transparent tent within the courtyard of the Cour Carrée du Louvre. Production by La Mode en Image

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fountain view

Louis Vuitton

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Dries Van Noten show venue

Dries Van Noten was held in the Hôtel de Ville de Paris

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Dries Van Noten show venue

Dries Van Noten. Production by Villa Eugenie

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Dries Van Noten show venue

The soundtrack to Dries Van Noten was composed by Malcolm McLaren - combining alpine folk music; African drumming and acapella choir songs

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Miu Miu show venue view

Miu Miu, featuring a high-shine mirrored floor and a series of blocky violet stools

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Miu Miu show venue view

Miu Miu soundtrack by Frederic Sanchez

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Karl Lagerfeld show venue view

The Karl Lagerfeld show was held in a temporary space in the Jardin des Tuileries. Music by Michel Gaubert

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Yves Saint Laurent show venue view

The Yves Saint Laurent show was held in the Grand Palais

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Yves Saint Laurent's show venue view

Yves Saint Laurent's show was surrounded by an angular cage of lighting scaffolds. The audience were surrounded by an under-lit, cyclical runway

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Yves Saint Laurent show venue view

Yves Saint Laurent

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Yves Saint Laurent show venue view

Yves Saint Laurent featured a live performance from international electronic artists LCD Soundsystem

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Chanel show venue view

For Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld filled the Grand Palais with a gigantic iceberg

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ice sculptors

Housed in a sealed ‘glacier’ box in subzero temperatures, the berg was constructed by 35 ice sculptors who, over the course of six days, transformed 240 tonnes of snow-ice into the icescape - which reached a peak of 8.5 meters

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Model on Runway

Dutch duo Studio Job worked with Viktor & Rolf to create the backdrop for the latter's show

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Jack Moss
Fashion Features Editor

Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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