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impressed by the artistic musing. The pop star watched the Louis Vuitton cosmic blossom 89-look-strong show from the front row next to a whole host of curious art objects which scattered the runway — like a giant-sized handbag or a surreal 1-meter (yard) perfume bottle made of marble that seemed to sink into the floor. but didn’t infect the clothes too much, bar a few quilted Chanel art portfolios and the male model Marlon Teixeira toting a graffitied backpack with paintbrushes sticking out. There were flap-fronted blouses and jackets, as if a piece of canvas were draped over the model’s torsos, paint-daub prints and painted finishes on jackets and jeans. Other than that? Chanel business as usual.

The opening looks were frayed multicoloured tweed, reflected later in bubbly boucle jackets. Accessories were omnipresent, but not overpowering. The shoes fused with socks, wrinkling down the models’ calves. They resembled an extremely well-dressed bunch of art school slackers marching around the Tate Modern. nmar (Reuters) - The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn't recognise the body, one of series of Louis Vuitton epi leatherattacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking violence against Muslims. Flies were buzzing around the bloodied patch of earth outside a ransacked mosque in Tha Phyu Chai village where police removed Khin Naing's body after he was hacked to death by ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. "He couldn't run fast enough from the Rakhine people," said his son, Tun Tun Naing, 17, who emerged from hiding to identify his father's corpse from what remained of his charred clothing. 02 Chanel PAP SS14 224x300 In Paris, Chanel goes arty farty while tricky Saint Laurent trickles up Chanel's painted dress and art student backpack for spring 2014. Photo by Karl Lagerfeld Maybe Karl was making a barbed comment about art schooling being only for the wealthy these days? Probably not. The background was just that –

and this show was just about some really, really great clothes. It’s the sort of simple, straightforward statement you yearn to see. "Karl has such a fantastic sense of humor. He is so self-deprecating with his styles," said Perry, near a statue of a man kneeling down with a Chanel truck tire on his back. "It's good to be light-hearted," quipped the designer. Other shows of the day included a presentation from Dutch wunderkind Iris Van Herpen who did the impossible and made clothes play music, and collections from Alexander McQueen and Valentino who both Louis Vuitton new arrival channeled ethnic vibes but produced very different results. CHANEL The question "is fashion art?" was answered with a very literal "Yes," in Chanel's painterly clothes-palette of 150 different colors.