Chanel’s doll house-themed Paris show: BFFs Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid scorch the ramp

Having, in previous years, turned the Grand Palais into an airport, a supermarket and a brasserie, designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has been at the creative helm of Chanel since 1983, sent models out of a wooden house down a garden path across a neat green lawn.

Updated: January 27, 2016 16:38 IST

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Known for his extravagant runway settings, designer Karl Lagerfeld led fashionistas into a serene garden at the Chanel haute couture catwalk show in Paris. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Having, in previous years, turned the Grand Palais into an airport, a supermarket and a brasserie, the designer, who has been at the creative helm of Chanel since 1983, sent models out of a wooden house down a garden path across a neat green lawn. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Lagerfeld said the starting point for the line was "the silhouette" and he puffed up sleeves into oval shapes on Chanel's signature tweed jackets paired with pencil-slim skirts. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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In an age of technology, models, whose hair was swept back into moon-shaped chignons, wore belt pouches big enough to hold smartphones or tablets. "There's an influence of everything," Lagerfeld said. "It's a kind of relax zen attitude in a modern spirit of today." Model Gigi Hadid donning one of his creations. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Evening wear consisted of embroidered strapless satin dresses and top and trouser combinations, worn with sparkling sheer capes. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Lagerfeld's nature theme was evident in the embroidery on dresses, including colourful flowers and wooden birds as well as in the shoes: rounded cork wedges. Colours were shades of beige, ivory and gold with dabs of black and dark blue. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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"You must not forget that in the twenties before she made a little black dress Chanel was called 'the queen of the beige'," Lagerfeld said, referring to founding designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. "And I never made a Chanel collection nearly all beige." (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Lagerfeld dressed his Chanel bride, a regular feature at his haute couture shows, in a strapless dress embroidered with chiffon, beads, rhinestones, leather and wood shavings, worn with a hooded jacket with a train. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Model Kendall Jenner wears a creation for Chanel's Spring-Summer 2016 Haute Couture fashion collection. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: AP)

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Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016 collection for fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: Reuters)

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The show ended with the panels of the wooden house opening to reveal the models, including Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner, posing on the structure's three floors. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: Reuters)

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German designer Karl Lagerfeld (bottom C) appears at the end his Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2016 collection for fashion house Chanel at the Grand Palais. (Text: Reuters/ Photo: Reuters)