According to the A.P., Stewart and Moore’s surprise appearance elicited gasps from the audience as the fashion house’s muses “walked out through an arch to take a seat around a celebrity-filled poker table in the center of the catwalk.” Apparently background players in Chanel’s presentation, “hey hugged, chatted, gambled, and laughed all through the show. The space was decked out as a Chanel-branded casino-“replete with roulette tables and fully functioning gambling machines”-through which a bevy of bouclé-clad models traipsed in traditional runway fashion. The Associated Press reports that this year’s presentation took place in a structure built specifically for the occasion inside Paris’s Grand Palais. Chanel decided that it was time to step things up on-stage, so they came up with a casino-like background. They were making a surprise appearance in Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week.
No, the two were not filming a cameo in the next James Bond movie.
While you were slumped over a keyboard in rumpled business casual on Tuesday, Kristen Stewart and Julianne Moore were in Paris wearing bespoke Chanel couture and playing blackjack alongside models.
