A Chanel ♏show in New York is a rare treat. And last month, the house brought its Pari💖s-Salzburg Métiers d’Art show to the Park Avenue Armory in extravagant high style, ahead of the collection’s arrival in US stores this spring.
The show, first presented in December at Salzburg’s Schloss Leopoldskron palace, transpor🍬ted guests to an imagined Austrian royal salon, complete with Aubusson carpets and gilt furniture. It proved a regal backdrop for a runway parade featuring Kendall Jenner, Caraꦏ Delevingne and Stella Tennant in frilly neck blouses, lustrous embroidered capes and the butterfly dress Keira Knightley wore to this year’s Golden Globes.
A select group of 200 Chanel customers took⛦ seats alongside a star-studded guest list that included Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Moore and Vanessa Paradis (accompanied by daughter Lily-Rose Depp). After the show, Beyoncé snagged a place of honor next to creative director Karl Lagerfeld for the screening of his short film, starring Geraldine Chaplin as Mademoiselle Coco, while Williams performed the song “CC the World,” which he penned for the short.
Such fêtes are proving a hit with fans, who get an up-close look at the work of Chanel’s Métiers d’Art, a group of companies acquired by the house to keep specialty artisanal design alive. The collections encompass Maison Michel hats, Causse gloves, Barrie cashmere and Lesage embroidery, and are among Chanel’s fastest-growing venturꦫes, with e-commerce — a first for the house — launching in late 2016. Till then, Kendall’s leather leder-hosen hot pants and the rest of the investment pieces will arrive in New York Chanel stores this May.