Chanel brings beanstalk to catwalk in fairytale Paris couture show

Storytelling collection opens with embroidered mousseline and ends with simple black dress in spirit of label’s founder The first model on the Chanel catwalk was wearing a sheer mousseline skirt suit embroidered with delicate silk beanstalks, and carrying a tiny century-old leatherbound book of fairytales that once belonged to Coco Chanel herself. With the Lord of the Rings soundtrack booming through a stage set of giant parasol-scale poppies and lupins as tall as giraffes, the clothes narrat...

By Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris