Monte-Carlo

Irina Lazareanu in a Chanel Paris-Monte Carlo dress.<br />Photo by Stéphane Feugère

by OLIVIER ZAHM

Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris-Monte-Carlo show in Monaco gathered together generations, from model Irina Lazareanu, the young Princess Charlotte Casiraghi, US singer Chan Marshall, to renowned American choreographer, Trisha Brown, among others beautiful creatures, and regenerated the myth of Monte-Carlo. The Old School Riviera is still alive…

Karl lagerfeld is an innovator who loves—and respects—the past. He created a new, semi-couture collection (between high fashion and ready-to-wear), called Paris-Monte Carlo, for the benefit of fashion’s traditional artisans, such as the embroiderer Lesage, feather-stitcher Lemarié, and milliner Michel, to name a few. He dressed 65 models to present this line at the Monte-Carlo Opera House, where the principality’s ballet company, under the direction of Jean-Christophe Maillot, performed for the 2006 Nijinsky Awards, that same night. (Trisha Brown was one of the winners.)…