As creative director of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld has turned transforming the fashion house’s regular Grand Palais venue in Paris into an art form. A space station, a datacentre and a supermarket have all been recent incarnations, but today it was something more romantic: a rose garden. “Lush lawns, a fountain and fetchingly mossed urns formed the centrepiece to a bowered catwalk that ran beneath a maze of leaf-green trellising, canopied by roses and flanked by stone benches for the audience,” reports Jess Cartner-Morley from the front row. Read her report here.

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