Those who criticized Cartell and Dimberger from the beginning will probably enjoy reading these lines.
At the Fall-Winter 2012 applied fashion show, Chanel set up the runway at the Palais Royal Palace in Paris.
During the Fall/Winter 2012 couture collection show and the introduction of creative director Raf Simons, Dior hired artist Mark Colle to fill the walls of five rooms of a Parisian villa with flowers.
Equally `outstanding`, Louis Vuitton, when introducing its Fall-Winter 2012 collection, built a steam train model in the lobby of the Louvre museum in France.
At the Fall/Winter 2012 show, Marc Jacobs introduced a collection inspired by the work of art called Puritan’s Delight.
Oscar de la Renta, when introducing colorful evening gowns and swimsuits in his Spring 2009 collection, hired artists to draw a large house on the backdrop by hand.
OMA/AMO, Prada’s longtime catwalk builder, created 600 cube-shaped seats on the green carpet for the fashion house’s guests when presenting its Spring 2012 men’s collection in Milan.
To show the intersection between the two fashion capitals of Paris and Tokyo in the Fall-Winter 2012 men’s show, Louis Vuitton placed the first letters of the two cities at the beginning and end of the catwalk.
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In the Fall/Winter 2010 show, Chanel placed a large box in the middle of the Palais Royal Palace.
Jean Paul Gaultier paid homage to female pilots in Hermes’ Fall/Winter 2009 show.
For the Fall/Winter 2010 couture show, Dior created giant tulips to match the year’s trends.
Ralph Lauren celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008 with a Spring Summer fashion show held at the Conservatory Garden in New York’s Central Park.
A classic symbol that needs to be mentioned is the catwalk of Alexander McQueen’s Fall-Winter 2006 collection.