Fashion

The theme: “Airports and flying have become a nightmare,” said Karl Lagerfeld. “L.A. is about the dream of private jets and beautiful cars and glamour…

The location: A boardwalk along Venice’s Lido at dusk along which guests were seated on sun beds in tented cabanas. The theme: “ ‘I wanted to reinvent…

The theme: “Too much may not be enough,” said Karl Lagerfeld of a collection accessorized with fine jewelry and nominally inspired, wrote Tim Blanks, …

The theme “This is my idea of a romantic, modern Orient, a new One Thousand and One Nights,’ [said Lagerfeld]. And there was no place more appropriate…

The theme: “Trust Karl to find the symbol of French-Cuban entente cordiale in a piece of clothing,” wrote Sarah Mower. “That would be the beret in thi…

The location: The clothes were presented to live orchestral music in the auditorium of the Herzog & de Meuron Elbephilharmonie building The theme: Nau…

The location: The Grand Palais was made to look like “a train platform, the audience seated on old-fashioned benches. [The brand also] replicated a di…

The location: “The 16th-century Chenonceau is known as the Chateau des Femmes (the Women’s Castle) because of its association with some powerful ladie…

The location: The former Palais de Justice in Dakar. Luke Leitch reported that this was Chanel’s first show in Africa—“and simultaneously the first sh…

The theme: “What we learned from Karl and Virginie,” Chanel’s President Bruno Pavlovsky observed, “is the importance of the Chanel silhouette, the cla…