The recent Chanel extravaganza in Paris showed what will be on sale (for colossal prices,
ça va sans dire) in the little shiny black-and-white boutiques in expensive sections of expensive cities all over the world this coming autumn. To promote his fantasy plumages this year, Karl Lagerfeld transformed the Grand Palais into a sarcastic pastiche of the monster-stores where "real" shoppers now do "real" shopping
– demonstrating once again that the world of ordinary people easily can be made to look like an absurd joke when set against the world of Chanel People.
