Who needs subtlety when it’s Couture Week in Paris? Karl Lagerfeld has built a life size plane inside the Grand Palais to house his S/S 2012 couture show.Set designers spent five days constructing the “plane” from anodized aluminum, outfitting it with an extra-wide 164-foot aisle, 180-degree swivel seats for 250 high-profile guests, double-C monogrammed carpet, a holographic cockpit, and a slatted roof that revealed a vista of clouds. Lagerfeld’s inspiration? The peace he finds while in the sky “I love the plane,â said Lagerfeld âThereâs nothing I find more relaxing. Your neighbors are stuck to their screens, there are no phonesâitâs blissfully peaceful.â
Though the clothes were inspired by hostess uniforms, Lagerfeld didn’t want to make it too obvious. âI didnât want to make it too literal,” he said “If you look at what air hostesses really wore back in the â60s, it wasnât that great.â Because of the limited seating of the plane, Lagerfeld had to stage two separate showings to accomodate A-listers such as Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Olsen, Daphne Guiness and Diane Kruger.
