Karl Lagerfeld has a thing for the extraordinary. But instead of shipping an iceberg from Sweden, he had his own forest built in the middle of the Grand Palais for the presentation of Chanel Haute Couture S/S 2013. Not much unlike the collection Raf Simons presented for Dior one day earlier, the flowers were like its surroundings in bloom. But even so dirty almost like they had been walked all over on. Neo-classisicm, Karl Lagerfeld himself said, but if mixed with grunge, the corpse bride had suddenly been created with feathers in her hair and ruined makeup . Or two, to show his encouragement of gay marriage in the current debate of the gay marriage law in France.

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