There was a sparkle in the City of Light. After menswear’s fashion week, it was time for the Haute Couture in Paris as Chanel showcased its Spring/Summer 2017 collection.<br /><br /> From its reflective runway to its mirrored pillars topped with white lilies, Paris’s fashion pack could see themselves and designer Karl Lagerfeld’s creations from all angles.<br /><br /> Everywhere the collection sparkled. A sequined silver cocktail dress with touches of purple and pink, belted below the bust, melted into a pink feather skirt dusted with metallic leaves.<br /><br /> Karl Lagerfeld and Lily-Rose Depp at Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2017 Fashion Show in Paris. #PFW17 pic.twitter.com/ovUQyKFohZ— CHANEL (@ChanelHCShow) January 24, 2017<br /> <br /><br /> Model and Chanel muse Lily-Rose Depp, closed the show in a dusky pink gown and did a lap of honour with Lagerfeld.<br /><br /> Dior<br /><br /> Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior.<br /><br /> Amid a lush garden setting at the French capital’s Rodin museum, models opened the show in Dior’s signature Bar jackets in black, re-invented into capes with hoods and worn with lace tops, pleated skirts and wide-leg ankle-length culotte trousers.<br /><br /> Chiuri also presented a selection of white dresses before moving onto dream-like frocks in pink, mauve, grey and blue for the evening.<br /><br /> Schiaparelli<br /><br /> Bertrand Guyon’s new collection for Schiaparelli stayed close to Elsa Schiaparelli’s heritage who famously mixed into her designs references to her surrealist friend Salvador Dali.<br /><br /> The signature “lobster dress’‘ – influenced by Dali – was revisited with inserts alongside menswear jacket silhouettes. <br /><br /> Exactly 80 years later, Elsa Schiaparelli & Salvador Dali's lobster dress returns at Paris couture week. #Schiaparelli #PFW #bertrandguyon pic.twitter.com/rnC5LuguJh— gracedbyfashion (@gracedbyfashion) January 23, 2017<br /> <br /><br /> Popstar Kylie Minogue and actress Thandie Newton were front row for the couture feast which was held in the old Place Vendome atelier-apartment of fashion icon Elsa, who died in 1973.<br /><br /> Giambattista Valli<br /><br /> The Giambattista Valli show held in France’s National Archive was an ode to women who travel, wander and who seek adventure.<br /><br /> Cocktail dresses in satin duchesse silk that had surprising folds, as though they had just come out of a suitcase, which was exactly what Valli had in mind opened the show.<br /><br /> Flowers were a major theme, as they always are in Valli’s shows. He wanted to make dresses that felt like a promenade in a Mughal garden, so evocative in their colours and exuberance you could actually smell the fruit and flowers.<br />
