Chanel Spring/Summer 2010 Show

We've been championing the idea of the urban farm for some time now, but it's taken a while for the fashionista city crowd to catch on. Yet catch on they finally have, as demonstrated yesterday by Karl Lagerfeld's, the world's best known fashion designer and W* guest editor, latest catwalk show, held underneath the imposing dome of the Grand Palais, and set in his very own Chanel barn.
Lily Allen and band surprise the audience with an after-show number
See more images of the farm-inspired set and the after-show entertainment provided by Lily Allen
The chime of a cuckoo clock marked the start of the showpiece, with models appearing from beneath a giant haystack walking on to a straw-strewn timber runway.
Not content with wooing the crowds with the Karl-takes-Chanel-to-country show which featured platform clogs, crochet, stencil prints, wheatsheaf embroideries, baskets and even Chanel binocular cases, British singer Lily Allen (and band) was raised up out of a hole in the pine floorboards to perform a number in her very own gazebo.
Not to miss out on any oppurtunity for hanky panky in the hay, the finale had male model Baptiste Giabiconi accompany two catwalk models for a roll about in the straw bales.
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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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