Couture shows are traditionally the most lavish of events on the fashion calendar - and what can be more lavish than filling the Grand Palais in Paris with an enormous golden lion as a set piece?

Fabulous.

And who else to do it than Karl Lagerfeld, who came up with a fantastic couture collection for Chanel this season.

We loved the key sillhouette - a short top half overlaid on skirted bottoms - and the tousled hair matched with fresh, youthful make-up.

But whilst the make-up was minimal, the clothes were rich.

Shades of maroon, navy, and camel had a deliciously autumnal feeling to them - augmented by velvet, fur and twinkling crystal trims.

Pattern came in the form of embroidery, and as the show progressed, the theme of geometric metallics crept in; culminating in a dress of gilded squares worn by a leonine, blond, and particularly fierce-looking Anja Rubik...

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