Last night at the Grand Palais, artistic director Matthieu Blazy presented his second ready-to-wear collection for Chanel, his fourth in total for the house including January’s dreamy haute couture extravaganza and December’s New York subway station-backdropped Metier’s d’art debut. It was, undoubtedly, the place to be for any double C-clad celebutante, with the house’s new sovereign transforming the 19th-century Parisian landmark into a scene of a contemporary construction site befit with primary-coloured cranes that towered over the runway. ‘I was interested in the idea of building a dream, a work in progress,’ he told Vogue.
Charlotte Casiraghi put her best foot forward in the fruity creations
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Naturally, a rolodex of megastars, megababes and mega-connected society swans congregated en masse to bear witness to a new season of 2020s-ready chic from the historic French Maison, with Blazy continuing to blaze his path to total cool-girl domination. Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue, Lily Rose-Depp and even Oprah Winfrey were in attendance. Talk about front row royalty… However, as the new class of shimmering Chanelites arrived to take their pews, all eyes were on one rather glittering guest in particular, Monégasque royal Charlotte Casiraghi, specifically on what was on her toes.