Chanel's merry-go-round, Castelbajac's funky fun

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — A giant merry-go-round occupied centre stage at the Chanel ready-to-wear show on Friday, but instead of horses there were enormous versions of the house's iconic camelia, quilted handbag, ropes of pearls and earrings with the double-C logo.

Models even got a ride on them when Karl Lagerfeld came out to take his bow at the end as it slowly revolved.

Lagerfeld's reinvention of the Chanel classics for next autumn-winter were no less inventive than the setting in the Grand Palais exhibition hall.

It was a tongue-in-cheek return to grunge for the signature tweeds. He sent out skirts suits with jackets deliberately frayed at the elbow, their braiding unravelling and with the loose weave of the fabric coming apart.

How could he justify such...