The designers typically elaborate spring/summer 2015 show at Paris fashion week featured a faux street, complete with banner-waving models and guard rails. What was he trying to say?
Karl Lagerfeld, who once dismissed concerns over size-zero models as the whinings of fat mommies with bags of crisps, is an unlikely champion of feminism as a fashionable issue. How, then, to interpret his Chanel catwalk show at Paris fashion week, which closed with a megaphone-wielding Cara Delevingne leading a model army chanting for freedom, the Kardashian-clan catwalk star Kendall Jenner holding a banner reading Womens Rights are More than Alright, and a sea of placards reading Ladies First, History is Her Story, We Can Match the Machos and Boys Should Get Pregnant Too?
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