Chanel's volcanic set wows, clothes impress less | NewsOK.com

Chanel's volcanic set wows, clothes impress less | NewsOK.com: "fall-winter 2011-12 ready-to-wear collection, a parade of post-punk pantsuits and wide-cut jackets in charcoal tweed by designer Karl Lagerfeld that at first glance looked like a harder sell than the pretty pastel skirts and snug tweed jackets that women worldwide lust over.
But even if the clothes themselves didn't take the crowd's breath away, the set did. Paris' mammoth glass-and-steel domed Grand Palais was transformed into a boulder-strewn volcanic island, complete with faux steam that wafted out from beneath the wooden catwalk and wide expanses of powdery synthetic volcanic ash strewn with fake boulders.
The start of the show resembled a big-budget science fiction flick. Like mother-ships touching down, two luminous oversized screens emblazoned with the house' enjoined double C logo descended to ground level and lowered like ramps to reveal the backlit silhouettes of a pack of models."