You ou survive six decades un-besmirched by Western brands, then within
months, the Pope, Obama, Beyonce, Jay Z and The Rolling Stones turn up.
Last night Tuesday May 03,2016, a day after the first US cruise ship in 60 years docked in Havana Harbour, planet Chanel arrived in Cuba. Or rather 600 of Chanel’s guests arrived. Members of Chanel’s crack squad have been stationed in the region for months – mainly in Panama, where communications are easier – arranging hotels, sampling restaurants and orchestrating the small matter of a full Chanel catwalk show.
Not easy in a country where food and board are still, as one flustered Chanel PR put it, “a bit Soviet”, shops are few and far between and designer boutiques non-existent (the Dior store closed its doors in 1959)
Fashionistas and celebrities from around the world flocked beneath klieg lights on a grand Havana colonial avenue transformed into a private runway for French fashion house Chanel.
With hundreds of security agents holding ordinary Cubans behind police lines blocks away, actors Tilda Swinton and Vin Diesel, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Cuban music stars Gente de Zona and Omara Portuondo watched slender models sashay down Prado boulevard Tuesday night in casual summer clothes seemingly inspired by the art deco elegance of pre-revolutionary Cuba.
Brazilian top model Gisele Bundchen, second right, attends the
presentation of Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's "cruise" line for
fashion house Chanel, at the Paseo del Prado street in Havana, Cuba,
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
U.S. Actor Vin Diesel gestures to the crowd watching the presentation of
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld's "cruise" line for fashion house
Chanel, at the Paseo del Prado street in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 3,
2016
Guests sat on the Havana street at the Chanel cruise show, with Cubans watching from balconies
Last night Tuesday May 03,2016, a day after the first US cruise ship in 60 years docked in Havana Harbour, planet Chanel arrived in Cuba. Or rather 600 of Chanel’s guests arrived. Members of Chanel’s crack squad have been stationed in the region for months – mainly in Panama, where communications are easier – arranging hotels, sampling restaurants and orchestrating the small matter of a full Chanel catwalk show.
Not easy in a country where food and board are still, as one flustered Chanel PR put it, “a bit Soviet”, shops are few and far between and designer boutiques non-existent (the Dior store closed its doors in 1959)
Fashionistas and celebrities from around the world flocked beneath klieg lights on a grand Havana colonial avenue transformed into a private runway for French fashion house Chanel.
With hundreds of security agents holding ordinary Cubans behind police lines blocks away, actors Tilda Swinton and Vin Diesel, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Cuban music stars Gente de Zona and Omara Portuondo watched slender models sashay down Prado boulevard Tuesday night in casual summer clothes seemingly inspired by the art deco elegance of pre-revolutionary Cuba.
Guests sat on the Havana street at the Chanel cruise show, with Cubans watching from balconies
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