Chanel Fall 2013 Couture - Paris Couture Week

"For fall, he addressed that belief in the title of his show — “The Old World and the New World” — and used his set to drive home the point. Guests walked into an ancient theater, its forlorn “stone” walls crumbling, windows broken, musty stage curtain disintegrating at the hem. All seemed under the cover of long-settled dust, which in fact was contrived brilliantly, no less deliberate a surface texture than a thick embroidered tweed. (“The seats just look dirty,” offered one chic p.r. “They’re not.”) Once the crowd settled into the haute mustiness, the curtain opened to reveal the vista of a dazzling 21st-century city, no one place in particular, but a place “like in the Far East,” Lagerfeld said during a preview. The old and gray provided entrée to the new and dazzling." - wwd.com