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Take a bow Monsieur Lagerfeld! Karl's girls Alexa Chung and Vanessa Paradis take front row seats at Chanel haute couture

'Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury,' Coco Chanel once said. So it probably explains why Karl Lagerfeld chose to dress all the models in flat shoes for the Chanel haute couture show in Paris today.
Even the star-studded front row, which included Chanel regulars Alexa Chung and Vanessa Paradis, had dressed the part.
Paradis chose a simple ensemble of a white T-shirt, jeans and work boots to go with her tailored jacket and bright red Chanel bag.

Also among the guests were actresses Diane Kruger and Kirsten Dunst, who looked polished in a ladylike dress and bright red lipstick.Kruger wore an embellished dress with towering strappy sandals - very Chanel, but a far cry from the looks on the catwalk.
Back on the runway, black patent pointy-toed slip-ons and satin shoe-boots were the order of the day, lending an ingenuity to the models' floaty, ethereal creations in a barely-there palette of pastel pinks and silvery greys.
The show was closed by 46-year-old model Kristen McMenamy as a bride (couture shows always traditionally have a bridal gown by way of finale).
It was no coincidence that she is most famous for her long, silver-grey hair, in keeping with Lagerfeld's colour scheme - not that much of it was visible, all the girls wore their hair in loose up-dos with side partings.
As well as the ravishing embellishment that is such a key part of any haute couture collection, bows were a key feature.

They appeared on loose sashes on drop-waisted skirts, and neat embellished bands to decorate a bustline.
The use of black accents, such as the ribbon chokers, worn high on the neck by all the models, made reference to the French fashion house's signature palette of black and cream, though the light-as-air fabrics in the palest of pink gave it a fresh, modern twist.
Each piece was embellished with thousands of tiny crystals, sequins, and feathers - the result of hours of handiwork of the six ateliers purchased by Chanel in 2009 in order to protect the rare skills of the artisans that work there.

In an interview today, Mr Lagerfeld admitted that he is never satisfied with his work.
'Maybe I could do better,' he told the Telegraph.
'I'm never pleased with myself. I always think I'm lazy and that I could do better. Time passes so quickly. For me to sit and sketch quietly on my own is a luxury.'
He was reluctant to reveal his current reading material, for fear it would give him too intellectual an image.

'Most of the books I read are too pretentious to talk about. I don't want an intellectual image. I am a fashion person.'
Dressed in navy, rather than his signature black, he explained: ‘It’s better on TV than black - it might be the reflection, I don’t know.
'Fashion is about change – for me as well.’

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